illustrated example, lets say me, you, and turtle are all family members and turtle buys a machine gun legally, or cancel, he hasn't bought it yet but wants all of us to have equal access. if turtle buys said gun as an individual you and I could not use or possess it unless we're in turtle's presence.
so we all form a trust, all three of us are trustees, the trust as a legal "person" acquires the gun, all three of us may then legally use it.
kind of like, say a security company hires armed guards and issues pistols, the pistols do not belong to any one individual, they belong to the business and hence may be used by any authorized member of that business. or say your company has a company car, the car doesn't belong to any one person, it's registered to the corporation.
that's how that works,