Ep. 795 Liberty, Guns, and 3D Printing: Discussion with Cody Wilson

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Cody Wilson created intense controversy in 2013 when his company published plans online for the Liberator, a functioning pistol that could be produced with a 3D printer. By popular demand, he joins me to talk about his experiences and his outlook.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 795.
0:03.5	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:08.3	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.7	Folks, I've just released another free e-book, this one called Education Without the State.
0:20.9	Grab your copy at no-stateeducation.com or by texting the word educate to 33444.
0:30.2	Hi everybody, Tom Woods here.
0:31.7	We are joined today by the fascinating Cody Wilson by popular demand.
0:37.0	Cody is the author of Come and Take It, the Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free.
0:42.3	Cody is, well, hard to encapsulate in one sentence. You might call him a free market advocate,
0:48.8	a gun rights activist, but he's much, much more than that. His nonprofit defense distributed develops and publishes open-source gun designs,
0:58.2	and he gained international notoriety in 2013 when it published plans online for The Liberator,
1:06.2	a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a 3D printer.
1:13.7	Now, needless to say, when you're doing stuff like that, you're going to run into, well, progressives who don't like what you're doing,
1:18.9	and government officials who don't like what you're doing. So, Cody and I will have a lot to
1:23.0	talk about. Cody, welcome to the show. I'm so glad to be here. Thanks for having you. Well, I'm thrilled to
1:27.8	have you. I've had a lot of requests to have you on, and, you know, there are always,
1:31.5	always a reason to have you on. You're always up to something. It's always a good reason to talk.
1:35.7	Your book is a good reason to talk. Come and take it, so I want to talk about that. I know your basic story, the basic story behind what you've been up to. The book really filled in a lot of details for me. Like I didn't know about the Indiegogo campaign being yanked and stuff like that. I mean, that, it's a colorful story you have. We'll put it that way. Let's start with this here. I mean, first of all, what the heck is 3D printing? What is the technology behind this?
2:01.2	I can understand 2D printing.
2:03.2	How does it work?
2:04.5	Oh, man.
2:05.2	Well, 3D printing, or as it kind of first became known as sterile lithography or rapid
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