wow....
it's ALWAYS the adults fault for not making sure. period.
i think the government has better things to waste time on than this fucking low life.
he ran away to Thailand, where it's legal to fuck 15 year olds, and got in trouble there for the same thing immediately...but no, he's not a pedophile....
the problem is taxes? oh, and i thought it was perhaps that there was no way to keep these homemade weapons out of the hands of the insane, terrorist, kids, career criminals.....and no way to track who makes them, sells them, buys them, or uses them to commit crimes...
Wow, you really are ignorant aren't you.
1) "It's always the adults fault for not making sure, period."
When you are a member of a website that basically sells prostitution (as in a sugar baby site) you would assume that the women are of legal age and that the website has done it's due diligence in vetting and confirming the women's age, despite this what do you do when you are lied to by said female and she looks and says she's (for example) 18, 19 or 20?
What's stopping girls of 12, 13, 14 and 15 joining the website and pretending they are 16, 17 and 18 if they look it?
Absolutely nothing, that's what.
Do you ID every female you intend to have sex with in case you are being duped and she's under age? No, I fucking thought not.
But I'll admit that he could have done more to protect himself from being duped.
2) "I think the government has better things to waste time on than this low life"
The government are very much interested in Cody Wilson.
They issued him with a Federal Firearms License so he is legally allowed to sell guns.
He released the plans for many 3D printed weapons into the public domain for free via his company Defense Distributed's website called DEFCAD.
The USA government's State Department Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance then forced Defense Distributed to remove the plans from the DEFCAD site claiming rights to the information and threatening them with violations under the
International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
Defense Distributed started making and selling the CNC ghost gunner machines that finish milling AR-15 lower receivers.
Defense Distributed then raised enough cash to sue the state department for violating their first amendment rights to free speech over the 3D printer plans, Defense Distributed won the lawsuit.
3) "He ran away to Thailand, where it's legal to fuck 15 year olds, and got into trouble for the same thing immediately......but no, he's not a pedophile."
No he did not go to Thailand at all, he went to Taiwan!
I know the two completely different places can seem/sound the same to a pleb who clearly has no knowledge of anything outside of his own little bubble but Taiwan is an island off the south-east coast of China and it's about 2,260km away from Thailand.
The age of consent in Taiwan is 16, exactly the same age as most states in the USA.
And no he didn't get in trouble for the same thing, he was arrested for illegally entering Taiwan because the sneaky US government cancelled his passport.
Here's an article in English that says so......
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/taiwanese-authorities-arrest-cody-wilson-intend-to-deport-him/
And here is the Chinese newspaper article it links to in Google Translate.....
https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=zh-CN&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/breakingnews/2558609&xid=17259,15700022,15700124,15700149,15700186,15700191,15700201,15700214
The definition of a pedophile is someone who is sexually attracted to and engages in sexual acts with children, IE prepubescent, so no he's not a pedophile.
He had sex with a girl who was 16, which is the age of consent in most of the USA, it just so happens that the age of consent in Texas where Cody Wilson lives is 17.
So the girl is less than a year younger than the age of consent IN THAT STATE, not all of the USA.
The age of consent in Oklahoma is 16 and also in Arkansas it's 16, so he could have driven her to a hotel in one of the next states to Texas for the consensual sex and it would have been ok.
4) "the problem is taxes? oh, and i thought it was perhaps that there was no way to keep these homemade weapons out of the hands of the insane, terrorist, kids, career criminals.....and no way to track who makes them, sells them, buys them, or uses them to commit crimes..."
The serial number is only put on the lower receiver for tax purposes, it's an added bonus the serial number is registered to someone, but that still doesn't stop anybody from unlawfully killing with a registered weapon.
There is no way to keep these home made weapons out of the hands of the insane, terrorists, kids ext anyway.
Like I said, it is perfectly legal to make your own weapon with no serial number in the USA.
It is the exact reason why 80% finished lower receivers exist in the first place (they're made by the same legit company's that make the finished ones), they can be bought all over the USA and finished with hand tools by anybody with a couple of brain cells to rub together.
Any argument for tracing guns and keeping them out of the hands of undesirables holds no water at all.
I'll say it again, IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL TO MAKE YOUR OWN GUN IN THE USA WITH NO SERIAL NUMBERS OR REGISTRATION!
Only guns bought from licensed dealers must have serial numbers and be registered.
YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN!
It's possible to make many guns out of scrap metal with hand tools.
Shotgun, semi auto pistol, full auto pistol, full auto machine gun, STEN gun, MAC 10, MAC11.
All with smooth bore barrels so the bullet's would have no rifle marks to trace to the individual weapon.
It's also possible and very easy to make your own ammunition in various calibers for said guns by hand.
To control guns you would need to control the knowledge of how to make a gun and that is impossible.
You can't control knowledge and thoughts.
So yes, Cody Wilson got a Federal Firearms License and gave 3D printer plans away for free.
The government tried to stop him, he sued them and won.
Then he sold the people the means to mass produce their own AR-15 and 1911 receivers without giving the government any money and it's all perfectly legal.
You bet they're pissed off at him.