...and I have done the same in reference to lists of any kind that government can get it’s hands on. That would be any list any where concocted for someones benefit, be it personal medical history, mental health records, drivers license records, gun purchase records, Social Security records, census records, phone records, military records, police records, felony records, you name it, likely it will never be for your benefit. Fifty years ago in a different world, I would not be saying this, but the law of human nature and the law of unitended consequences, have combined with the dubious “homeland security” and other police agencies to become the enemy rather than the protector.
Just remember before 1960, if you were even alive back then. guns were nationally advertised, I could get an M-1 for 25 dollars, by mail, and cherry bombs, and M-80’s were freely available to the trusted American citizen including children, but no we haven’t lost any of our freedoms have we. Unless you consider the federal intrusion into every aspect of life a loss of freedom.
There’s only one list on American citizens the federal government should have: the constitutionally-mandated enumeration collected every ten years in order to establish congressional districts and electoral votes.
And that’s nothing more than an head count.