In the "sue happy" climate we now live, perhaps CYA is a reasonable step. But let's look at another facet of this issue.
As I understand it, terrorism is force used against citizens to make a government change its ways. But, as we all know, governments can make citizens change their ways through similar tactics. Scarcely a month goes by without a report here or on another forum about some gun owner or collector being arrested or killed in a sudden midnight raid. All too frequently his original 'offence' was some simple paperwork error, but by the time the raid is publicized, his stash of surplus ammo and collection of classic firearms has been transformed into an "arsenal" and he is painted as a terrorist. We read these accounts, gulp, look over our shoulders and tell ourselves something like "they'll never do that to me."
So, instead, we rush to cover our posteriors! Which is what they want us to do. They want us to keep records of everything we buy, sell, eat, drink, use or misuse. That way, they can keep us so busy with trivia that we don't have time to address the larger picture. Instead of finding ways to avoid or throw off the bureaucratic tyranny, we cover our butts with bureaucratic paperwork. We don't beat 'em, we join 'em!
I'm in a better position than some of you. I don't own a business or a ranch or even a car, so I don't have much to lose. Those of you with more property will have to decide for yourselves how to act. But when you're dead, will it make a difference if you died in a soft, warm bed or a hole in the ground? Do you want to leave your kids money and property or freedom?
Somebody is reading this right now and getting ready to explode all over me with a claim that being cautious isn't an infringement on freedom. But being FORCED to be cautious is!!! It absolutely is! If a government can make you fearful enough to change the way you do things- that government has infringed upon your freedom to make a choice! I remember when things were done differently and I've watched our government terrorize us until we changed our way of doing things. Many of you-- perhaps most of you-- can't remember those days because you weren't alive then, but things really were better then than they are now.
Sure, cars go faster now than they did then, but we weren't in a hurry. We have tv and computers now, but we didn't need them then. Diseases killed more people then than now, but wars kill more now than then. Best of all, people were more self-reliant then-- even in the cities.
You guys do what you feel you need to do. Cover your fannies with bills of sale, background checks or whatever. Just remember, when you do so, you become part of the problem, part of the Matrix, and eventually the time may come when you will have to be disconnected from the Matrix. That could be painful.