Why are some of y'all worried that the cops will confiscate every gun you own? That strikes me as very odd. I have never heard of that happening.
There was a thread similar to this a couple of years ago. The thread was basically along the lines of you having just defended your life with your 'baby' that cost zillions of dollars being customized by nothing but the best smiths in the world and you had used that very gun at Thunder Ranch, Gunsight, Front Sight, etc.. The perp is dead and the cops roll up and see you with a gun in your hand and immediately each cops draws his weapon on you and you are ordered to "drop your gun." The question was, do you subject your precious gun to that sort of mistreatment, or do you try to reason with the cops about how your gun should be treated?
That thread, like this thread, like so many other threads are a form of fixation on the wrong problem. Other examples would be that a light trigger pull, handloaded ammo, a gun with an aggressive sounding name (Wilson Combat, for example) will all somehow make you more susceptible to either legal or civil prosecution. If you wrongly shoot somebody, you may have troubles, but they will go way beyond that light trigger or evil sounding gun name.
If the gun you shoot best is called the Terminator 2002 Black Ops Combat Master with the special bonus Lethality Package that comes complete with the solid 3 oz trigger, accessory cup holder, and you are shooting your personally designed and named Blood Extractor ammo that you have hand loaded hot, then that is the gun you should hope you have with you when the time comes and you have to use a gun to save your life.
The important points you need to know for after the gun fight is to keep your mouth shut except for stating that you need a lawyer. At that moment, your value system will be changing dramatically. The status of your gun will be completely in the background as the status of your butt in jail is seen as fresh meat by your new companions.
Getting to that point, since so many people are worried about what is going to happen to their guns after a gun battle, how many of you already have a lawyer lined up? How many of you have take the time to meet with your lawyer to discuss the potential legal rammifications of you being in a gun battle? How many of you have that lawyer's card in your pocket and the number of a good bail bondsman? Aside from worrying about developing your skills to win a gun fight, the next concern is not what happens to you gun, but what happens to YOU while going through the legal process.
When was the last time anyone who came out victorious in a gun fight was heard to say that they wished they had used a Raven .25 instead of their ________ (insert good brand name here)? More likely, they will be very happy that they chose a quality firearm and used quality ammo to accomplish what the task needed.
Don't fixate on the wrong issues. If you want to fixate on aspects of a gun fight, fixate on becoming better prepared, better trained, more practiced, and owning a reliable gun with ammo that you know will perform well in that gun. You have to be alive to worry about your gun after a gun fight. Hell, if you are dead, it doesn't matter what gun you used, now does it?