Just being the devils advocate.
That might float if the law stated that it was perfectly OK to have them if you made them "inoperable". I'll stick with those who state the obvious that anyone who advances Zero's agenda becomes immune from them pesky laws.
The police claim they said no and the perp says it was the Feds that gave the OK - only problem is the Feds have no jurisdiction in this particular matter - if they did, then they just made one more step towards rewriting history so the Constitution never existed except as some manifesto for the haters of the world to rally around.