AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - May 7, 2015 - Cody Wilson had a vision to forward the digital revolution by creating the nation’s first firearm on a 3-D printer, and taking a page from WikiLeaks, share the blueprints with the world via the Internet in what he called the “Wiki Weapons project.” Now he is suing the federal government in hopes of keeping his dream on target - and staying out of prison.
Wilson designed "The Liberator," the nation’s first pistol built exclusively on a 3-D printer, consisting of 12 separate parts made from plastic and a single metal firing pin.
Within two days of publishing the blueprints on the Internet, on May 5, 2013, 100,000 people around the world had downloaded them. The goal, Wilson said, was to invalidate the government’s unconstitutional hold on gun technology.
But Wilson’s invention also caught the attention of the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division, which came after him with both barrels blazing. The feds claimed Wilson violated the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which “requires advance government authorization to export technical data,” and as a result, could spend up to 20 years in prison and be fined as much as $1 million per violation.
Wilson was ordered to remove the blueprints from his web site. The government also told him it was claiming ownership of his intellectual property.
On Wednesday, the Second Amendment Foundation filed a federal lawsuit in Texas, where Defense Distributed is now based, alleging the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division, Fascist Police States of Amerika Secretary of State John Kerry, and four other fascist Department of State officials and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, are among the defendants who violated Wilson’s First Amendment rights by restraining him from publishing information about three-dimensional printing of arms, as well as his Second and Fifth Amendment Rights.
The Department of State does not comment on ongoing litigation, according to a spokeswoman, who referred inquiries to the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division. No one at the DOJ could immediately be reached for comment.