Semantics. Cops don’t make the laws. Change the laws and we’ll gladly enforce the new ones. The only ones with guns in this city are cops and criminals. Wish it were different, but these people keep voting for idiots.
I have read, heard and been reminded that cops have discretion in what laws they enforce. Courts have time and again backed them on that point. If those cops had no problem with decent people being armed then they would not arrest them nor confiscate their firearms.