Gah. This ‘Store’ (or Collect) vs ‘Use’ think keeps coming up.

When the Universal Background Checks for guns was being debated, gun nuts said that merely the fact that the information about someone requesting a pre-sale check was being collected AT ALL, even if it was required to be destroyed after a certain period, was tantamount to REGISTRATION! Which, as we all know, is the last step before TOTAL CONFISCATION!!!!