it’s also theft. they paid for those items legally and it is their property.
if you let your license expire they don’t repo your vehicle. (crap i don’t want to give the knobs any new ideas)...
if you miss church they don’t come and take your bible.
if you get fired from the paper or stop blogging, they don’t come and demand your computer.
I would leave my guns loaded and laying on the sidewalks of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago before I would hand them over to the government.