Well, this is the harsh downside of our DA's office plea bargaining so many felonies down to misdemeanors.   Being charged with a felony is enough to get a person's guns temporarily confiscated.   But if they are not actually convicted of a felony and thus become a felon, the police then have to return the guns to the person.

Our local police must feel so frustrated by this.   They make felony arrests, only for them to be changed to misdemeanors.