Owner of Texas 3D gun company resigns after arrest
AUSTIN, Texas — An activist who garnered national attention for running a Texas company that sells blueprints for making untraceable 3D-printed guns has resigned from the firm he founded after being arrested on charges of having sex with an underage girl.
Cody Wilson tendered his resignation Friday evening to tend to “personal matters,” Paloma Heindorff, director of development for Austin-based Defence Distributed said at a Tuesday news conference. The company is at the centre of a federal case in which several states sued to block it from posting plans to build 3D-printed guns online.
Heindroff said she would be taking over Wilson’s duties as director and was a strong believer in the Second Amendment.
“We believe people have a right to have these files,” she said of plans for printing guns. “We believe in our right to be able to publish them.”