Much ado about plastic Unless you’ve been living in a cardboard box behind HEB for the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard the hue, and of course cry, from the anti-gun crowd over the issue of 3D printed guns. Cody Wilson, who owns an Austin-based company called Defense Distributed, has been haggling with the courts for years over the legality of making his 3D gun plans available for download on AlGore’s interwebnets.