On Defcad’s website, they also write that their “files and other hardware are not currently available to persons outside the United States and are only available to residents of and persons in the State of New Jersey who possess a federal firearms license.”

Users can pay a yearly fee of $50 to access the files, which they are also welcome to upload themselves. “We invite you to share original and legacy firearms models, CAD/CAM data, blueprints and drawings,” reads the site. His latest attempt is through Defcad, which calls itself a “repository for small arms technical data,” and of which he is a director. Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, has been waging a legal battle for years now, in an attempt to give everyone the ability to print their own guns. A company connected to activist Cody Wilson is selling 3D printed gun files over the internet to approved residents of the US, reports the Wall Street Journal.