What they don't tell you is that if your guns are taken from you via a red flag law you have to pay the cops an arbitrary sum to get them back, and this sum is usually several thousand dollars PER GUN, and scales with the type of firearm taken. Usually, this fee is more expensive than the guns themselves and is designed to make you not want to pay the fee because if you don't pay the fee within an arbitrary time period, they'll destroy your firearms.