My doctor talked to me about gun ownership the last time I saw him. He’d just picked up a nice Mauser in 7x57. We talk motorcycles a lot also.
I’m not sure if people realize this, but at least some information you give your doctor goes into a big database.
There’s an insurance exchange, where any disease you have is reported so that insurers can tap into it and realize if you are a risk or not.
If physicians are contributing to this database, what’s to say they don’t report out gun ownership also.
When asked, I simply say no. I don’t own guns.
Don’t think a casual relationship with your physician will protect you. If a spouse can turn on you, is it out of the question for a physician to turn on you?
Keep your wits about you.
Your doc and mine are cut from the same cloth. He’s a total gun nut and owns untold thousands of rounds of ammo along with enough guns to fill several safes. Every time I see him I’m humiliated by how small an arsenal I had before the TBA.
Some doctors talk lingo in order to get hesitant patients
to loosen up and talk about otherwise sensitive info. They then put your info into the med data base. The doctor may never have owned guns. Be careful...even if your doctor does seem like the gun enthusiast. If he decides a particular patient is a dangerous rube or red neck, a record of that patient’s guns are going to be created.