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'''Cody Rutledge Wilson''' (born January 31, 1988) is an American [[Crypto-anarchism|crypto-anarchist]], [[Free-market anarchism|free-market anarchist]], and [[Right to keep and bear arms in the United States|gun-rights]] activist, best known as a founder/director of [[Defense Distributed]], a [[non-profit]] organization that develops and publishes [[open source]] gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons", suitable for [[3D printing]]. He is a co-founder of the Dark Wallet [[bitcoin]] storage technology.

[[Defense Distributed]] gained international notoriety in 2013 when it published plans online for the [[Liberator (gun)|Liberator]], a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a 3D printer. Wilson is regarded as one of America's most influential gun rights advocates, and ''[[Wired Magazine]]'''s "Danger Room" named him one of "The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World" in 2012. In 2015, ''[[Wired (website)|Wired]]'' named Wilson the fifth most dangerous person on the Internet.

==Early life and education==
Originally from [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], Wilson was [[student body president]] at [[Cabot High School]] in [[Cabot, Arkansas]]; he graduated in 2006.

Wilson graduated from the [[University of Central Arkansas]] (UCA) with a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[English studies|English]] in 2010, where he had a [[scholarship]]. While at UCA, Wilson was a member of [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] [[fraternity]] and was elected president of UCA's [[Student Government Association]]. He also traveled to China with UCA's study-abroad program.

He is a former student

==Career==

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

Learning of his organization's plans, manufacturer [[Stratasys]] threatened legal action and demanded the return of a 3D printer it had leased to Wilson. Stratasys immediately cancelled its lease with Wilson and sent a team to confiscate the printer the next day.

While visiting the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms|ATF]] enforcement office in Austin to inquire about legalities related to his project, Wilson was subsequently interrogated by the officers there.

In May 2013, Wilson successfully test-fired a pistol, called "the [[Liberator (gun)|Liberator]]", reportedly made by a Stratasys Dimension series 3D printer bought on [[eBay]]. The State Department Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance then demanded that he remove it, threatening prosecution. They claimed he was violating regulations against the international export of unapproved arms.

On May 6, 2015, Defense Distributed and the gun rights group the [[Second Amendment Foundation]] filed a lawsuit against the State Department claiming a violation of their first amendment rights to free speech.

===Dark Wallet===
In 2013, Wilson, along with [[Amir Taaki]], began work on a [[Bitcoin]] [[cryptocurrency wallet]] called 'Dark Wallet', a project by which he plans to help [[Anonymity|anonymize]] financial transactions. He appeared in support of the 'Dark Wallet' project at the [[South by Southwest|SXSW festival]] in [[Austin, Texas]] in 2014, speaking to publications such as [[Reason (magazine)#Reason TV|ReasonTV]].

===Bitcoin Foundation===
On [[United States elections, 2014|U.S. election day]], November 4, 2014, Wilson announced in an interview that he would stand for election to a seat on the Board of Directors of the [[Bitcoin Foundation]], with "the sole purpose of destroying the Foundation." And Wilson stated: "I will run on a platform of the complete dissolution of the Bitcoin Foundation and will begin and end every single one of my public statements with that message."

===Hatreon===
In 2017, Wilson launched [[Hatreon]], a crowdfunding site similar to [[Patreon]]. It is notable for featuring controversial [[alt-right]] personalities [[Andrew Anglin]] and [[Richard B. Spencer|Richard Spencer]].

==Political and economic views==
Wilson claims an array of influences from [[Anti-statism|anti-state]] and [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] political thinkers, including leftist [[market anarchists]] like the [[Mutualism (economic theory)|mutualist]] scholar [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], [[Capitalism|capitalist]] [[Libertarianism|libertarians]] such as the [[Austrian School]] scholar [[Hans-Herman Hoppe]], and [[Classical liberalism|classical liberals]] including [[Frederic Bastiat]].

===On American gun politics===
Asked during an interview with ''[[Popular Science]]'' if the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]] had affected his thinking or plans in any way, Wilson responded:<blockquote>''"... understanding that rights and civil liberties are something that we protect is also understanding that they have consequences that are also protected, or tolerated. The exercise of civil liberties is antithetical to the idea of a completely totalizing state. That's just the way it is."''</blockquote>

Journalist [[Brian Doherty (journalist)|Brian Doherty]] of ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' described Wilson as "more than just a gun guy", adding that Wilson may be "right about how it has to end: the people will have the power."

==Work==

===Bibliography===
*''Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free'' (2016) Simon & Schuster

===Filmography===
;As himself
*''After Newtown: Guns in America'' (2013)
*''[[Print the Legend]]'' (2014)
*''[[Deep Web (film)|Deep Web]]'' (2015)
*''No Control'' (2015)
*''The New Radical'' (2017)

==See also==
*[[3D printed firearms]]
*[[Anarchism in the United States]]
*[[Libertarian perspectives on revolution]]

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]

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