Despite the plea that it would not break federal arms-manufacturing laws, the lease was cancelled and contractors came to Wilson's home to seize the printer (shown below). Less than a week after receiving the $15,900 uPrintSE, Wilson received an email from Stratasys' lawyers stating that they wanted the printer returned. That September, Wilson leased a 3D printer from Stratasys to begin testing their prototypes.
After their fundraiser was shuttered on August 27th, they switched to accepting donations via PayPal and Bitcoin through their homepage, raising more than $20,000 by September 20th, 2012. The campaign lasted for 22 days and raised nearly $2,000 dollars before Indiegogo took the page down down, claiming a violation of their terms of service which state that campaigns cannot be used for activities relating to the sales of firearms or certain firearm parts and accessories. In August, Defense Distributed launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in order to raise $20,000 for equipments and supplies, including a Stratasys 3D printer and enough plastic filament to built and test several iterations of the firearm. The staff launched the official website that July and released a video (shown below) detailing their ideas to create a “wiki weapon” that would be accessible to anyone. On June 4th, 2012, 24-year-old University of Texas law student Cody Wilson founded the organization Defense Distributed with the intent to create a completely 3D-printed, open source gun, which was inspired by gunsmith Michael Guslick’s partially printed rifle. On May 9th, 2013, the US Department of Defense Trade Controls requested the files be removed from the site.
After the blueprints were made available online on May 5th, 2013, they were downloaded more than 100,000 times within four days.
Liberator is the name of the 3D-printed gun designed by Defense Distributed’s open source printing project DEFCAD. Gun, cody wilson, defcad, defense distributed Overview
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