Hasn't the American Medical Association been doing this for years? I believe I read in a Shotgun News article that the AMA was asking doctors to ask their patients how many guns, etc. they had.
Yeah, I saw a doctor back about 20 years ago that told me to exercise, eat right, and not own any guns.
I told him that I would not be seeing him anymore. When he asked why, I told him that if he dispensed pseudo-medical advice from ignorance and fear, I did not trust any of the rest of his medical advice. I also told him that as a scientist, and member of a heavily medical family, he was an embarrassment to his profession and cannot call himself a scientist.
He turned and walked away. I never saw him again.
Back in the late '70s I worked as an automobile mechanic. I figure that at least 20-25% of the cars that came into our shop (an Oldsmobile dealership) had a pistol under the front seat. I never thought much about it, or actually found it funny (I had just moved down to Florida from Maryland--where you did not see this--Bethesda, not rural Maryland). Today, I find myself hesitant to take a rifle out of a case to show a neighbor, and I live in a neighborhood where almost all of the neighbors are very conservative (although only a few gunnies).
It is just as disturbing that the government wants folks to turn in people with guns, as it is that so many think that gun ownership is illegal. Certainly the way the news presents it, it would be easy to think that only law enforcement can legally own guns. When there is a story about someone arrested that have guns, they never explain why THAT person was breaking the law by owning guns, just point out that he had guns.
Like that guy recently that was arrested in Chicago (a Bears player). Wow, they made it sound like he was a some sort of out-of-control gangbanging nut case, because he had
SEVERAL ASSAULT RIFLES and ABOUT 500 ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION.
I saw that and told my wife, "Dude was way under armed. He could have gone through 500 rounds on a good weekend at the range!"
But it was presented like he was ready to start WWIV!