Cody Wilson

Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American crypto-anarchist and market anarchist activist. He is known as a founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "Wiki Weapons," suitable for 3D printing. The firm became internationally known in 2013 when it published the plans for the Liberator, a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a 3D printer.

Wired Magazine's Danger Room has named Wilson one of "The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World."

Early life and career
Wilson is a former The University of Texas School of Law student.

Wilson describes himself as being influenced by a wide array of anti-state and libertarian political thinkers including leftist market anarchists, the mutualist scholar Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, capitalist libertarians such as the Austrian School scholar Hans-Herman Hoppe, and classical liberals like Frederic Bastiat.

Defense Distributed
In 2012, Wilson and associates as Defense Distributed started the Wiki Weapon Project to raise funds for designing a 3D printable gun. Wilson is to date the only spokesperson on behalf of the organization, of which he describes himself as a "co-founder" and "director."

Learning of these plans, manufacturer Stratasys threatened legal action and demanded the return of a 3D printer it had leased to Wilson. On September 26, 2012, before the printer was assembled for use, Wilson received an email from Stratasys claiming that he was using the printer "for illegal purposes". Stratasys immediately cancelled its lease with Wilson and sent a team to confiscate the printer the next day. Subsequently, Wilson was questioned by the ATF when visiting the ATF field office in Austin to inquire about legalities and regulations relating to the Wiki Weapons project. Since then, he has been granted a Federal Firearms License which allows him to manufacture and distribute his created pieces.

In May 2013, Wilson successfully test-fired a pistol named the Liberator, reported to have been made by a Stratasys Dimension series 3D printer bought on eBay. After test firing, Wilson released the blueprints of the gun's design online through Defense Distributed.

Brian Doherty of Reason described Wilson as "more than just a gun guy," and stated that Wilson probably "is right about how it has to end: the people will have the power."

Dark Wallet
In 2013, Wilson began work on a Bitcoin wallet named "Dark Wallet".