Obama makes statement

The senator, a former constitutional law instructor, says he believes the Second Amendment to the Constitution grants individual gun rights.
But he says it's subject to commonsense regulations like background checks.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080215/D8UQSIDG1.html

So with IL "through" background check to get a FOID card, to purchase guns, the outcome at NIU would have been the same