Cody Wilson is one of the most popular and richest Designer who was born on January 31, 1988 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31st 1988) is an American crypto-anarchist and free-market anarchist, and gun rights activist. He is most well-known as the founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organisation that designs and publishes open-source gun designs, also known as “wiki weapons”, suitable for 3D printing and digital fabrication. He was a co-founder of Dark Wallet bitcoin storage technology.
The year 2012 was when Wilson along with associates from Defense Distributed started the Wiki Weapon Project in order to raise money to design and release the designs for a 3D-printable gun. At the time, Wilson was the sole spokesperson. He called his self “co-founder” and “director.”
Wired Magazine’ s “Danger Room” named Wilson one of “The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World” in 2012. In 2015 and 2017 Wired named Wilson one of the five most dangerous people on the Internet, and in 2019 named him one of the most dangerous people on the Internet of the decade.
In a January 2013 interview with Glenn Beck on the nature of and motivations behind his effort to develop and share gun 3D printable files Wilson said, “That’s a real political act, giving you a magazine, telling you that it will never be taken away. … That’s real politics. That’s radical equality. That’s what I believe in. … I’m just resisting. What am I resisting? I don’t know, the collectivization of manufacture? The institutionalization of the human psyche? I’m not sure. But I can tell you one thing: this is a symbol of irreversibility. They can never eradicate the gun from the earth.”
After learning of the plans of Defense Distributed and the manufacturer Stratasys has threatened legal action, and demanded repayment of its 3D printing machine it let to Wilson. In September 2012 prior to when the printer was made ready to be used, Wilson received an email from Stratasys that claimed he was using it “for illegal purposes”. Stratasys immediately terminated their lease agreement with Wilson and dispatched a team to take the printer.
