I agree. Apparently a doctor refused to see a patient for refusing to answer. I was filling out a form for a doctor once and my answer to the gun ownership question was “nyb”. I hoped to be asked what it meant, but never was. Not your business.
It is said that a person does not own a fine old violin - rather that a person is just passing through the life of that violin.
Perhaps if one considers the elements from whence the gun originated from... then one is passing through the life of those elements.