Do you guys think that woulda mattered? There are so many guns floating around that the guy could have privately bought an illegal one almost immediately.
That's always the problem with gun laws in this country. Illegal guns are so easy to get that it doesn't really matter what the laws are. Guns are a little like marijuana... Imagine if marijuana was illegal for only 50% of the population, and there were stores openly selling it to the other 50%. How long do you think it would take you to get some of the good stuff if you were in the illegal 50%?
In order to regulate something, you have to first make sure there aren't huge black markets.