[Mizza]

To be honest, though Cody Wilson was responsible for the initial organization of the movement, he is largely irrelevant now, and the DIY gun community has pretty much disavowed him and moved over to FOSSCAD.org // https://twitter.com/fosscad and IRC.

To show the difference in the developments, compare the single-shot Liberator featured in this article to the revolving Washbear designs by FOSSCAD: https://imgur.com/a/M1A0P/layout/horizontal#0 or the semi-auto Shuty MP-1v4 https://twitter.com/fosscad/status/718190339090059265

Cody is more of a political agitator and propagandist, whereas the FOSSCAD community are typically much more gun-enthusiast/engineer-y - although they share similar political opinions, their motivations seem to be much technical/recreational rather than political.

[tantalor]

Thanks, this kind of perspective is useful for outsiders.

Quick comment: isn't "Free Open Source Software & Computer Aided Design" a pretty misleading name for a group that is apparently only interested in 3d printing firearms?

[Mizza]

Agreed, but it came out of evolution - Cody's organization used to be called "DEFCAD" (Defense CAD), but it operated more as a company than as an open source initiative, so the community forked to "FOSSCAD" to indicate that's how they would be operating.

Maybe FOSSDEF would have made more sense but it's kind of too late now.

[Canada]

Thanks for those links. Fantastic!