Won and done. The battle has been won by Cody Wilson. The NRA is obsolete and so is any hope for gun control. YA KNOW WHY?

I am clearly totally ignorant about all of this Walt. So it is not as hugely big and scary as I think it is? It seems to me that anyone can make a gun and use it for its intended purpose. Unless you make 3D printers illegal and put those who have them/use them in prison where's the safety net? Thank you for your reply! :)

Yep ... not a big deal ... WAY overblown by the media.

You can print a 1-use gun ... but as I said, you risk having it blow up in your hand on that first shot.
It is guaranteed to blow up.  It's just a question of how few rounds you can fire, before it does.
(It's like using a piece of PVC pipe as a gun barrel)

If you're going to build a 1-shot firearm ... "zip" gun plans have been around since WW2.  
(the Allies provided plans for them to resistance fighters behind Axis lines)

Nope.  If somebody wants to build something at home to go on a killing spree, bombs are still the easiest and most reliable item.
Look at what Timothy McVeigh did with a rental truck and barrels of fertilizer+diesel fuel.

And if you can find a copy of the old "Anarchist's Cookbook", there are plenty of ideas in there to cause mayhem and death.

It's a dangerous world out there. Either I'm just noticing it now or it's getting worser awfuller scarier. Anyway I can't do a dam* thing about it so why worry, right? Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply Walt and Happy Thursday!  :)

I don't know if it's actually worse ... or if it's just that we're able to hear about it faster, due to increasing communication technology.

On the "plus" side ... if you want to look at it that way ... according to a story on NPR this morning, 2/3 of gun deaths are suicides.
So at least the majority of those using guns for violence (in the US) are doing so against themselves.
And the majority of them are white males living in the suburbs and rural areas.

That does make me feel better Walt and you probably know why. If you are gonna take yourself out why take others with you? If ya wanna blow yourself up to make statement do it in a cornfield with only scarecrows that will get blown up with you. That's a no brainer. Yes wanting to kill yourself is sad to outsiders.  But at least just do the harm to yourself and keep others out of it. If you are determined die you will find a way.Alcohol. Drugs. Poison. Drive a car into a brick building. Jump off a bridge. Walk into the ocean and drown. Jump off a cliff. Do it all on your own all alone. Sad to see them go but at least they are not monsters. Thank you for your reply Walt. So you guessed right. The stats were comforting. 2/3 of gun-related deaths are suicides. So be it. May it continue on and may the percentage grow so that at some point 100% of gun-related deaths are suicides and other folks won't have to worry or die. SIGH.  :)

Don't you need a license? Isn't that a form or registry m2c? Thank you for your reply.

In most states no you do not need a license. 
And yes, I consider a license to be a form of a registry. Assuming everyone with a license has a gun.