Reply #5: so where were you?

[iverglas]

I was the one making these points a while back, e.g.:

the undiagnosed and their families, who might avoid seeking treatment to avoid being socially and legislatively stigmatized.

My main point, of course, was that NICS constitutes a databank containing personal information -- about the most sensitive there is, people's psychiatric histories -- that has been entered in that databank without their consent, and for no purpose related to their healthcare, when a large majority of them will likely never try to purchase a firearm. But there their personal info sits, collected and stored and vulnerable to unauthorized access and leaks for the rest of their lives.

Since they can easily go buy a firearm out of the classified ads with no check done anyhow, seems like kind of a massive infringement of privacy for no compelling reason, and hardly the least interference in order to achieve the intended result.