Austin 3-D Printed Guns Advocate Pleads Guilty To Sex Charge

AUSTIN, TX — The Austin man who made national headlines after citing the U.S. Constitution to make firearms using a 3-D printer, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges connected to having sex with a minor, according to a published report.

As part of a plea agreement, the Austin American-Statesman reported, Cody Wilson pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child. The plea keeps him out of prison, but compels him to register as a sex offender for seven years while serving deferred abjudication probation, the newspaper reported.

The agreement also calls for him to be banned from owning a gun while on probation.

Wilson rose to fame — or infamy, depending on perspective — when he vowed to distribute blueprints for making undetectable firearms through the use of a 3-D printer to whoever wanted to produce such firearms. He was unbending in his resolve to distribute the plans via his website, citing the Constitution as protection for his ability to share the blueprints.

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In September 2018, Cody acknowledged having agreed to meet with a young woman at an Austin coffee shop he met through the website SugarDaddyMeet.com, but he told investigators he believed the girl was 18 at the time. The two went to a hotel to have sex, after which Wilson gave the girl $500, according to past reports.

Wilson is expected to be formally sentenced at a later date, the newspaper reported.

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