Armed with the guns that they were legally able to acquire or armed with the guns that they were able to steal from someone else who legally acquired them? Sounds like a great system!
Before NY SAFE I used an AR in theee gun competitions. I wasn’t real good yet but NY safe made it so expensive and difficult to compete that most of us gave up the sport. The police competitors were allowed to keep using 17 and 30 rd mags while we were limited to 7, our constant reloading cost us too much time.
If I want a gun, it's mine.
You can decide what applies to you or not, you're all humans, not robots.