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AR-15 Savant
I wonder if he will tell his cell mates that he is a big deal.
he following statements are mine and mine alone. They do not reflect CRW's thoughts/opinions/actions. This is not an official statement from Defense Distributed and/or any of its subsidiaries. I am offering this personal statement as a reassurance that Ghost Gunner and its related products are not legally connected to CRW's present legal difficulties. I will not answer questions related to CRW's present situation, as that is not the point of this statement. My goal is to reassure you - our customers - that GhostGunner's future is not immediately in jeopardy.Who am I?
I have been DD's primary engineer since 2013. Specifically, I designed most of our 3DP creations (including Liberator). I am GhostGunner's primary designer. Specifically, if you purchased a GG more than two years ago, then every single design aspect of that machine - except for the DDcut software executable AND the initial (opensource) grbl firmware (which I modified for GG) - was my creation. Since then, we've had other people design certain aspects, primarily because I took an extended break from DD after burning myself out designing and shipping the original machine. I am forever grateful for the others who took over maintaining GG in my absence (I was available for critical issues (e.g. redesigning GG's spindle)). I reveal this information not to brag, but to answer OP's concerns about DD's future. From a technological perspective, we will still be able to create products. It helps that Cody and I share each others' vision, so I believe we can continue to disrupt in his absence.
I know Cody well and talked with him nearly every day (three times yesterday). In regards to "DD's future", Cody is the visionary and a brilliant agitator. The risk that I go to prison due to anything DD has done are 0%; Cody and I were always very careful to make sure that anything legally uncertain was always done with his neck on the line. So I'm not going anywhere.
I won't go into too much detail on the financials, but I will point out that all donations y'all made during last month's fundraising drive went directly to the Second Amendment Foundation; neither DD nor CRW touched a single dollar. We did this to maximize your donations; for political reasons, DD has had a difficult time maintaining our tax exempt status, whereas the SAF has a much easier time not paying any tax on your donations... for that reason they got the money directly, as they are also a plaintiff. In short, any dollar you donated will be used to support our 1st and 2nd amendment cases. A few of y'all noted that when y'all previously asked "I thought I was donating to DD, but the receipt says SAF. Why is that?" Purchase y'all made for patches/USB drives/any physical object went directly to our bank account, which we retain access to.
We have operated without Cody's presence for long periods in the past. While these allegations are generating a media frenzy, I can assure y'all that it's business as usual for the most part. We are getting quite a few more phone calls than normal, and the press has tried really hard to come inside, but at the moment all business components related to Ghost Gunner are running 100%.
If Cody is tried, sentenced, and ends up in prison, then we'll certainly lose "the same edginess about [our] brand," but from a technological/product pipeline/production/fulfillment standpoint, we are very well capable of continuing to function. In fact, we just hired a new engineer on Monday (who is a bit confused at the moment, but is still coming to work).
You must know that Cody and I have long understood that he might end up in prison (although I didn't think it would be under these circumstances), so rest assured we had a plan for when yesterday finally arrived.
Thank you for your support. We will issue an official statement as soon as such statement doesn't incur any legal obligations.
He may be a douche, but can you explain why you think he's not 2A friendly?Guy's a douche and not 2a friendly. Felt that way ever since he sensationalized the Ghost Gun mill...
I wonder if that is why Wilson wanted bitcoin's?
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He may be a douche, but can you explain why you think he's not 2A friendly?
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Because when you rub someone's nose in shit they'll dislike the smell and resent you. Home built firearms weren't an issue until he made them one. For hyping the ghost gun phenomenon so he can sell very limited value mini mills I hope he rots in Hell.
He purposely rubbed the grabbers noses in ghost gun shit which resulted in more legislation that does nothing to prevent crime, only hurt law abiding citizens.
He created this problem, thus he is not 2a friendly.
Because when you rub someone's nose in shit they'll dislike the smell and resent you. Home built firearms weren't an issue until he made them one. For hyping the ghost gun phenomenon so he can sell very limited value mini mills I hope he rots in Hell.
He purposely rubbed the grabbers noses in ghost gun shit which resulted in more legislation that does nothing to prevent crime, only hurt law abiding citizens.
He created this problem, thus he is not 2a friendly.
Okay, fair enough.
But I'll say this - the grabbers will grab regardless if they get their nose rubbed in shit or not.
So there might be some unpopular thoughts in this.
First, if he had child porn on his computer, he should be in jail. That is wrong.
Second, he did ultimately sleep with someone under the age of consent. I think that ultimately, anyone can lie and join the website, and the onus is on the person to ensure that the person is legal. I'm not going to fault him for using the website, I think everyone knows that I think that if two consenting adults want to exchange money for sex, it's none of the government's business. That wasn't the case here though.
Now, I have some problems with this case. It sounds like the girl freely took and send nude images of herself. That should be enough to have her arrested and charged. The one article suggests that she contacted him, not the other way around. Since you can't register for websites like those without being over 18, she would have had to lie about her age and thus misrepresent herself and try to profit from her fraud.
I feel for those women who are forced to do sex work, who are sold into sex work, and the people who do that should be shot on site; but this girl doesn't sound like she was pimped or trafficked, it sounds like she knew what she was doing.
Cody broke the law, he should have ensured she was over 18 before he paid to play, but it will be sad if this girl doesn't get in trouble too.
Because when you rub someone's nose in shit they'll dislike the smell and resent you. Home built firearms weren't an issue until he made them one. For hyping the ghost gun phenomenon so he can sell very limited value mini mills I hope he rots in Hell.
He purposely rubbed the grabbers noses in ghost gun shit which resulted in more legislation that does nothing to prevent crime, only hurt law abiding citizens.
He created this problem, thus he is not 2a friendly.
The same could be said of Heller, Wrenn, and Mathew Grace. All of them can be said to have been "creating a problem."
They rubbed the gun grabbers nose in shit, forced an issue and won. The fact is that the gun control nuts have been attacking the idea of 3d (build up) and CNC (mill down) code outside of anything Wilson did. Beneficial case law is very often made by gadfly's who are "making an issue."