Defense Distributed announced during a press conference in Austin today that Cody Wilson has resigned as CEO.
The announcement comes as the 3D-printed firearm activist faces charges of sexually assaulting a minor.
Wilson was in Taipei last week when the charges were made public, only to be extradited to Texas and ultimately released on $150,000 bail.
The company Director of Development Paloma Heindorff told the audience that Wilson resigned Friday, adding that he will no longer play a role in Defense Distributed moving forward.
The company itself also has been the focus of an ongoing legal battle, with both Wilson and Defense Distributed serving as a kind of flash point for the debate around 3D-printed guns.
A number of states have filed suits, targeting the site distribution of plans for 3D-printing firearms at home.Defense Distributed, after legally committing its files to the public domain through a license from the United States Department of State, has been ordered to shut down its DEFCAD file repository by a federal judge in the Western District of Washington,& its homepage notes.
For now, DD site is devoted to a call for donations to its legal battles.As for the future of the company,Heindorff called Defense Distributed &resilient& during the press conference, adding,I cannot be more proud of my team right now.
We didn''t miss a beat.
No one blinked.
We have no intention of stopping.