I’m excited to announce that Pew Report has added GunCAD Index as a new source, bringing projects from the firearms design and 3D-printing community directly into the Pew Report news feed.
GunCAD Index collects and organizes an enormous range of community-created firearm designs, accessories, tools, storage solutions, replacement parts, and other printable projects. Pew Report will now surface new releases alongside the firearms news, products, politics, and industry coverage we already track.
We’ve also added a new Makers category for this content.
The goal is pretty simple: I want to make this part of the gun world easier for normal people to discover and understand.
GunCAD can look intimidating from the outside. There are unfamiliar terms, scattered communities, technical discussions, specialized tools, and plenty of assumptions that everyone already knows how everything works. That can make an incredibly creative part of the firearms community feel inaccessible.
It shouldn’t.
You don’t need to be an engineer or an internet firearms historian to appreciate what people are building. You also don’t need to start by printing an entire firearm. The maker community produces everything from magazine extensions and stock hangers to gunsmithing tools, storage accessories, replacement parts, and clever solutions to problems most manufacturers have never considered.
That is what makes this space so interesting. It isn’t just about printing guns. It is about experimentation, problem-solving, individual ownership, open knowledge, and people learning how the things they own actually work.
By adding GunCAD Index to Pew Report, we can put those projects in front of a broader audience without requiring readers to know where to look or how to navigate every corner of the community. New releases will appear in the feed with images, descriptions, links to the original project, and filtering through the new Makers category.
My hope is that this gives experienced makers another way to follow new releases while giving curious newcomers a comfortable place to start.
The firearms world has always had builders, tinkerers, machinists, gunsmiths, and people working in their garages to make something better. Desktop manufacturing is simply the newest version of that tradition.
Now it has a dedicated place on Pew Report.
Visit Pew Report and select Makers or GunCAD Index to explore the latest projects.
