# Defense Distributed > [!note] Stub — fill out Nonprofit founded by [[Cody Wilson]] dedicated to publishing open-source firearm designs and selling tools (notably the "Ghost Gunner" CNC mill) for home firearm manufacture. Its 2013 release of 3D-printable gun files triggered a State Department takedown under arms-export rules and years of litigation reframing CAD files as protected First Amendment speech. A central actor in the [[Ghost Guns]] and [[3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing]] policy fights. Expand with the ITAR case, the 2018 settlement and its reversal, and state attorneys-general litigation.