Must have been a magical bullet thrower

In New York City, where legal guns are almost non-existant, one person was killed and eight more were wounded when hit by bullets sprayed at a party.

Since no-one in the area had the necessary licenses to own and/or carry a pistol, someone must have come up with some kind of magical lead throwing device.

I can see it now:

A young person is disrespected somehow at a party, goes out to his car or apartment, and returns with his magic wand.  Taking several large lumps of metal out of his belt pouch, he conjures the necessary forces to form them into bullets and fling them into the house, wreaking havoc.  

Or maybe he or she just had a gun in defiance of all the gun laws on the books in NYC.  Occam's Razor and all that.

Someone who wants to have a gun probably doesn't need to break a sweat trying to find one, even in a gun free zone like New York.  No matter how many gallons of ink you waste on making something illegal, it does nothing to prevent someone who really wants to do it from doing it.*

*edited due to a really bad sentence structure.