Don't you believe it. If you read up on what the NSA is doing, it will raise the hairs all over your body. The new SIGINT facility they are building has sufficient storage capacity to handle all electronic communication ON THE ENTIRE PLANET....FOR A CENTURY.
If the data is stored, it can be "mined" at any time in the future. As processor speeds, decryption, and other algorithms get more powerful, more use will be made of more and more of that stored info.
The numbers are on the side a gun owners.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150353/self-reported-gun-ownership-highest-1993.aspx
So I do not worry about the government coming after my guns. With that said, I do not like the government collecting information about me.