Aussie Gun Control Working as Planned

A sex shop owner will spend six months in jail for lying to investigators about the source of illegal guns he sold to a Melbourne gangster, including semi-automatic weapons and a submachine gun.

So let me get this straight--when you make guns illegal, you create a powerful economic incentive to sell them on the black market, and the unintended consequences of "underworld" empowerment, including increased incentives for gangland killings over market share?

I mean, it's not like booze and drug prohibitions would have given anyone any reason to expect this...