A federal court blocked this man from selling 3D-printed gun blueprints. He did it anyway.

A federal court ordered the man behind 3D-printed plastic guns to stop selling the blueprints for the controversial devices. Yet on Tuesday morning, he put them up for sale.

Cody Wilson, the owner of a company that crafts plastic firearms that are nearly impossible to track, said Tuesday at a news conference that he's started accepting orders for their blueprints. A federal judge in Seattle ordered Wilson in July specifically not to sell the plans.

Wilson said he's received nearly 400 orders so far, The Associated Press reports. His company, Defense Distributed, originated the 3D-printed gun, which is notoriously untraceable as it's almost completely made of plastic and isn't sold with serial numbers or regulations. Debates over "The Liberator" gun's legality peaked last month, when Wilson settled a federal regulation dispute that's been waging since 2013. The settlement decided blueprints for Wilson's gun could be posted online and theoretically downloaded around the world — until the Seattle judge blocked the ruling with a temporary restraining order about a week later.

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But the judge's concerns over national and domestic security apparently weren't enough to stop Wilson. "Anyone who wants to get these files is going to get them," Wilson said Tuesday, and "they can name their own price," AP reports. Wilson also said that he expects states will combat his continued sale of the plans, and that he'll fight back against them and the federal court decision.