>>214323430 (OP)
Isn't there a scene where he goes to the bank and gets a gun and, first off he would have had to do a federal background check because there is no way he wouldn't have, but he pretends he didn't in the film, but it was also a weatherby rifle with is a fairly nice hunting rifle and he would have had to put down at least a grand to get it.
meanwhile more people are punched to death each year than killed with bolt action rifles and in 1998 or whenever you could have gotten a mosine nagant for like $60