Police can be quite dishonest. When I was a student at Troy University back around 1971, I applied at the Sheriff’s office for a concealed carry permit.
The head of the local sportsman club had told me to apply and said the Sheriff had agreed to start issuing them after being told they would get him defeated if he kept not approving them.
Every time I would go in, the chief deputy would check and tell me that my investigation had not come back yet. After a couple of months of this and my not suspecting anything, I happened to go by when the Sheriff’s wife was handling the desk. She went and checked and immediately wrote me a permit.
It took a couple of months for me to figure out that deputy was simply lying to me. I didn’t know it for certain but in my mind I am.
Know a woman in the area who had a domestic violence issue. Husband left...Permanently. Police took the guns out of the house.
Never returned them. She went all the way up the chain. buck was passed and finally they said there were no guns. About 5K worth.