Coast Runner Industries, Inc. is an American desktop

CNC milling Computer numerical control (CNC) or CNC machining is the Automation, automated control of machine tools by a computer. It is an evolution of numerical control (NC), where machine tools are directly managed by data storage media such as punched ...

manufacturing company headquartered in

Austin, Texas Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and W ...

. It was founded in February 2023 by

Cody Wilson Cody Rutledge Wilson (born January 31, 1988) is an American Right to keep and bear arms in the United States, gun rights activist and Crypto-anarchism, crypto-anarchist. He started Defense Distributed, a nonprofit organization, non-profit organ ...

, Garret Walliman and others, and debuted its first product, the CR-1, on

Kickstarter Kickstarter, PBC is an American Benefit corporation, public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York City, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative project ...

in February of 2024. After Kickstarter and

Indiegogo Indiegogo is an American crowdfunding website founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. The site is one of the first sites to offer crowd funding. Indiegogo allows peo ...

banned Coast Runner's early crowdfunding campaigns, Coast Runner sued the companies in a federal antitrust action in Texas in late 2024.

History

Coast Runner previewed a prototype of its

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

desktop CNC at CES in Las Vegas in 2024. Ahead of its Kickstarter launch, Coast Runner and the CR-1 were positively reviewed by ''MAKE'' magazine.

Litigation

In May of 2024, San Diego County, joined by The Giffords Law Center, brought suit against Coast Runner in California state court for violating a state law "blocking gun-making milling machines." On December 9, 2024, Coast Runner, represented by Stone Hilton, filed an

antitrust Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust l ...

action against Kickstarter, PBC, Indiegogo, Inc. and Launchboom, Inc. in a Texas federal court asking for $30M in damages.

References

{{reflist Companies of the United States Numerical control Open-source hardware