WOW! This is certainly police usurpation of people's rights!
Makes me want to send a contribution to our NRA (to which I and my late wife Jan are life members), to ensure they'll keep working for us.
Police have a job to do, and that's to enforce the law, whether they like the law in question or not. It's not their job to ignore the law, and it's not their job to make law, either.
Jim