3D GUN FIRM CEO RESIGNS AMID SEX CHARGES

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 3Dprinted guns online.

Heindorff said she would be taking over Wilson’s duties as director and was a strong believer in the Second Amendment.

Heindorff added the company has about 3,000 orders so far for blueprints.