You think hanging around gun forums talking about it might flag the covert data system?
Not to mention that if you are trained combat arms, "they" already know you know more about mayhem and destruction than the public has a clue about. 20 million or more have been thru the Armed Forces and trained on the M16 - all those fully automatic shooters are very likely to just go completely berserk at any moment now. Right?
Answering a physician's question when the military already has you fingerprinted, a DNA sample collected, and you already screened for a security clearance?
In this day and age, if you have served, you likely deployed, another security screening, "they" already know all they need to know about you.
Civilian? Never served? Got a CCW? No different from what I've experienced. All the DMV data plus a set of prints again. Is there a state that doesn't have photo ID connected to the CCW? Maybe one.
Did you buy a gun since NICS was put in place?
Type certain words into a post and the NSA will have a massive scanner search for any probability of you being part of a conspiracy. Better start looking over your shoulder, the guys in black sunglasses are following you.
It's WAY past time to worry about answering a question from your doctor. Sure, I deflect, too, plenty of reasons just the same as you, listed above. Fortunately, most of my trigger issues are normal, like, job security, the car breaking down, a rough patch with family. I don't voice ANY opinion much about politics these days, simply not worth the effort. Obsessing about the secret database of the national health care overseers and them using it to ID gun owners?
If it's finally come to your attention, the anti gunners are trying to make any unrecorded gun sale illegal. Even within a family group for a gift. They want that record for confiscation, which is a regular happening with an assigned team in states like CA. They enter homes and take guns from felons and other illicit possessors, and have been for decades. All they would have to do is simply outlaw certain features, and if you don't register them under a grandfather clause, you are now in their crosshairs.
Compare that to answering a question about gun safety in the home. Invasive, sure. Really none of their business. Pales in comparison to a SERT team on the doorstep with a no knock warrant to seize illegal weapons that were Constitutionally legal when you bought them.
It's actually not as bad as trying to build a kit car in some states. Imagine full compliance with current laws on emissions and safety standards for a recreation of a '60s era sports car sold before the invention of the PVC.
You literally have inspectors looking up your tailpipe. But a doctor asking if your ammo is locked up? Really?
You want attention, do the following: Request info around the net on making normal guns fire full auto, visit forums and post about making explosives, air your views on any number of radical websites espousing extremist views. Actually consort with people who do, i.e., get noticed by undercover BATF or other agents in association with people they are already watching. Make an effort - raise your profile enough to see if there's going to be 6 more weeks of winter, then see if someone doesn't get assigned to play whack a mole with you.
You're going to have to actually do something to be noticed, something "legitimately" illegal. Otherwise most authorities don't have the time of day to even pay attention that you are raising your profile. You are going to have to work on it a lot more than worry about deflecting a doctor's question, and that is because their are just enough criminals to fill the day of law enforcement, and then some.
If the nation really had the resources to overwatch each and every single one of us, then a killer couldn't ever make the status of being a serial killer. They would have got them a lot earlier.
(deleted because my inside contact texted me I was flagged again.)
Anyway, have a nice day.
