You don’t get it. Hide them. Report them stolen. Get a police report. Then return the guns and use them freely with no worries. They are officially stolen now they will never look for them again at your house. Get it?
I do see your point. But I am still uneasy about it. In a way, I see it as similar to a Left-wing tax policy — “I’m wealthy. Now other people are going to be taxed, and that’s OK. I’ve got mine.”
I hid my guns. I reported them stolen. The police won’t confiscate my guns. I’ve got mine. Sorry to see other people getting their guns confiscated. Those fools should have been smart like me. But, as I say, I’ve got mine.
That’s not a good policy.
There needs to be a will to use these things. Hiding and reporting them stolen isn’t necessarily bad. It’s a sensible tactic. I do get that. But if that is Step 1, you also need to go to Step 2 which is the active use of the thing. As long as people understand that it may really come to that, then these things have value. If the only thing someone is planning to do is hide them, then what’s the point?