You turn a gun over to a cop and he will be the one saying free gun, free gun. A friend of mine got killed in a hunting accident, it took the widow three years and three judges orders to get the his guns back. And she only got them then when the judge odered the sheriff to pay a thousand dollars a day in fines. When he started to go search his deputies homes the guns turned up.
Fine.
Let him have the theft on his conscience, not me.
And if he ever angers his colleagues, and they find out that he owns a gun that was used in a robbery or a homicide, and he can't come up with a good explanation as to how it came into his possession - well, it turns out the weapon wasn't really free after all.