[SkyDancer]

What are “illegal guns”?

Guns that have been stolen from legal owners and are in the possession of those that are banned from owning guns.

[Starstruck]

Then use the term "stolen guns". The guns themselves are legal. If someone is caught with a stolen gun that legal gun should be returned to it's legitimate owner. I'm not trying to argue semantics, I'm arguing that the mindset of the big city officials is to not worry about getting the law abiding citizen his property back but to get the gun off the street.