Tinfoil: check
paranoia: check
Welcome to the 21st century where information is the biggest commodity. The bank turns over records to the government? So what. The government already has a file on every citizen as long as your arms. If you raised suspicion, they have always had the means to investigate your background further, computers only make it a bit easier. There are what, maybe close to 300 million citizens in this country, probably hundreds if not thousands of potential terrorists, several thousand murderers on the loose, Several hundred thousand military personnel to keep track of, all while trying to keep track of who owes what in taxes? The .gov is way too occupied with more important matters than to worry if John Q in Piss Hill Oregon has a SKS with a questionable bayonet mount, or if Susie Q in Stinkhole Tennesee has taken birth control pills in the 1980s.
Maybe people have way too much leisure time on their hands that allows them to think themselves into such paranoia. Maybe young boys and girls have had poor role models or teachers on how to grow up and be self respecting and damn everything that is politically correct and morally empty. When a man has refused to defend a neighbor child in need because of a law, his position is morally indefenseable. I hope he has to look in the mirror every day and see what kind of failure he is. The man who is afraid to publicly load his guns into his car is a sissy looking for false acceptance by people. When I go tot he range, I load stacks of rifles in my truck, crates of ammo, and make no bones about what I'm doing. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a gun enthuiast, I've had a few negative encounters with people becauseof this, but I write them off as being the weakminded and I'm not going to bend to their will to please them. I've been asked for my socialist security number by many institutions, and told them its none of their damn business, the last one being a realtor I was working with, she was actually appalled that I would be so rude to not give her information she wanted, and she admitted that the information would be used for an advertising database. If people realize that its not a crime to A. do what's right and B. offend people, they will have a whole lot less to wring their hands about in life.