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Other arguments have been made here already. The one word in a phrase that jumped out to me is here:

Art. 7C.06. CONTENTS OF PROTECTIVE ORDER. In a protective
order issued under Article 7C.05, the court shall:
(1) prohibit the person who is subject to the order
from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling a firearm for
the duration of the order;

This takes it beyond temporarily giving up a firearm or temporarily taking away the ability to purchase. If you have firarms that are taken, my literal reading of this is that you no longer "own" them. So then there would be nothing that belonged to you to be given back. Even if there was going to be some permanent removal, the person should at least be able to sell them since they are an asset. That's conceding the point of havign to relenquish them to begain with but I'm just making the point of the impact of the prohibition of "owning". Someone else can't just hold them for you as you would still be the owner.