The authorities had plenty of legal means at their disposal, but FAILED to make use of them.

Stupid grabbers think yet more laws will do the trick when the current laws are poorly enforced.

Where the hell are their priorities in keeping us safe? Like cops at a donut shop across the street at a bank robbery.

Law Abiding Bob might have went to the gun store to buy a gun. Not today. Thanks to the NRA Law Abiding Bob is now convinced a background check=registration, your name is on a list that anyone can use to confiscate your weapons at any time.
Today a much larger percentage of gun sales are done in a parking lot, out of a trunk and a lot of those sales were set up using social media.
The lid has been blow off Pandoras box and new laws are not going to put an end to it.

I'm guessin' that you don't actually have any proof of that "surge in illegal sales" from a reliable, neutral source like the DoJ or FBI?

You just heard it somewhere or it's a kinda "well everybody just knows" thing?

let me pull evidence of gun running right out of my ass here. You want evidence, come to a gun show in Tulsa, we are famous for them in case you haven't heard. You can view for yourself the amount of guns being sold in the parking lot vs from a vendor.
From your response it would seem you think I am a gun grabber. Guess again. I own guns. LEGALLY. My guess is you do too, but you thought you were going to call out someone on the opposite side. Get real. Either you are clueless about gun culture or you know about, but choose to ignore the problem with illegal sales.

... of course they could be lying, but the troopers said have had exactly one incident in over 20 years of a parking lot sale and it was a guy that didn't want to wait the 24 hours for the Marlin Model 60 he'd bought.

Both seller and buyers were arrested in the parking lot, cuffed and hauled away.

Maybe people in Illinois are just more law abiding than the criminals in Oklahoma or sneakier?

to avoid any possibility of govt record/"registration".

I understand that of course, but haven't thought about it much in that way.