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Like the lawyers... I'm not your physician nor am I giving you advice.
My specialty is not primary care.
I never could think of a time when asking about firearms ownership satisfied "government" criteria for an encounter or insurance claim. There is a plethora of demographic and similar information that is sometimes sought like anything else but that does not compel anyone to answer, much less truthfully.
I have worked at a VA and they do not demand an answer to the question. Inpatient psychiatry maybe a little different, but I don't do that. There have been some psychiatric cases where knowing that information would have made some decisions easier but that is an isolated instance.
"Declined to answer" satisfies just about everything in a record.
If I ask, it's because I want to talk about something we have in common. I might get vintage Winchester envy.
Just talk to your doc. If you spend 5 minutes talking pistols, that's 5 less minutes talking about your cholesterol.
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