Any details that you can provide might be instructive to the rest of us. I am not talking serial numbers, but an understanding of how it happened, was a receipt given, was any overt threat made, things such as that.
(The bad apples were the cops)
He and his buds were shooting at some place they thought was “the country” and got stopped by the police on their way back. All the rifles were confiscated.
When he went to court (surreptitiously, he wanted to handle it himself even though both parents are lawyers), the prosecutor “cut him a deal” part of which was he couldn’t have his property returned.
And to make matters worse, now he is on some database having to do with gun offenses, so it takes extra time any time he wants to buy a firearm.
He was about 19 or 20 when this happened.