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Monday, February 11, 2013

The Face of Printable Firearms: A Conversation with Cody Wilson

The ability to share this kind of powerful information is a very unique situation that presents our society with many questions.

 
 

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via MAKE by Sean Ragan on 2/7/13

Cody R. Wilson with AR-15.  The gun has a 3D-printed lower receiver. ( Photo: Marisa Vasquez / The Daily Texan)For months, controversy has been building around 24-year-old Austinite Cody Wilson, full-time law student and part-time director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit working to develop and freely distribute designs for working 3D-printable firearms. Even before Sandy Hook, their "WikiWeapon" project was controversial, placing the group squarely at the intersection of emerging debates over the uses and abuses of both crowdfunding and 3D printing. After the tragedy, that controversy assumed a sudden, violent urgency on the national stage, and Wilson became an even hotter media commodity. He receives death threats and strangers recognize him on the street. When I catch up to him, on Jan. 16, President Obama has just unveiled the most sweeping package of gun-control proposals the U.S. has seen in decades.

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