I'm not convinced it's a "nonissue" any more than I believe the 1099 reporting requirement buried in ObamaCare was a non issue. Trial balloons and precedents and obscure phrases in laws which can later be "interpreted" into confiscatory gestapo regulations is clearly a major "coincidence" of the times. That is, after all, precisely the ruse fdr used to confiscate gold as money.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon