Cody Wilson will lay out 3D-files for printing rifles AR-15

Cody Wilson, a 27-year-old anarchist from Texas, and his company Defense Distributed gained fame after releasing a plastic Liberator pistol that could be printed on a 3D printer. This ridiculous pistol allowed a couple of shots to be fired before the barrel burst. Files for printing weapons Cody published in the public domain.

Now he intends to release something far more serious: the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle .

In it, part of the details of the part is printed on the printer, and the receiver is made of metal on a small CNC milling machine, which looks exactly like a desktop 3D printer. Again, files for all parts, plastic and metal, Cody will post in the public domain, and the cost of printing AR-15, according to his calculations, will not exceed $ 150.



Although the rifle itself will be cheap, Cody Wilson intends to make money selling Ghost Gunner milling machines for $ 1,500. But the manufacture of parts occurs completely automatically from files that will soon be published online. No special technical knowledge or training is required.



Cody Wilson says he can publish files as early as April. True, you can’t do some things even on the machine. Cody says that to get good bullets or to make a good striker, you have to take third-party materials. For example, you can use a nail as a striker. Well, everything else is made of aluminum and hard plastic.

Responding to allegations that terrorists could use his files to make weapons, Cody says: “There are any books in the library on how to make a bomb. You just have to have certain commitments to the free exchange of ideas. ”



The American authorities are not too happy with the activity of Cody Wilson. They forced him to remove the Liberator pistol files from online under the pretext of a ban on arms exports. Cody deleted, but by then the files had already spread to other sites. Now he is suing the government, trying to prove that publishing the code on the Internet does not fall under the concept of arms exports.