What is the point of this question?
Should cops hand in their guns once their shift is over?
apparently that is the question.
i am generally in favor of cops (and other LACs) carrying off duty, but the logic of why is not as simple as we have all been taught in the past. it is not as simple as "cop=gun" and "not cop = no gun".
no reason cops could not be issued a CC permit to carry for their own protection off-duty just like any other LAC. in fact, in some states thats the way it used to be done. and it is not all that long ago when police in america were not even armed with firearms. NYPD officers at one time were armed only with a billy.
I am not, BTW, suggesting we return to that situation.