I think they are looking for people who use the app outside the USA, which means the gun would have been exported, and likely illegally exported. If the company isn't allowed to export the gun, then using it on a gun range outside the USA may be illegal already.
That seems to me like absolutely the LEAST likely scenario I could come up with, even if I had weeks to think about it.
Your belief is that the US government is not trying to get any information on the people that live here & that they can actually do things such as “keep an eye on”, or “level charges against”, but rather an attempt to pinpoint people using guns, illegally exported to other countries... that they’d have ZERO jurisdiction over?
Much, much more likely: they want to compile a list of anyone here in America, that has even the possibility (via this app) of videotaping/live-streaming a gun rampage.
So, they thought they’d try to get information on 10,000 people that use this app (the vast majority of which certainly purchased their gun/scope legally & do NOT intend to go on a killing spree).
To me it’s INCREDIBLY clear-cut. Don’t give them the information! If there is a law stating that when these scopes are purchased, you must voluntarily register your information (like gun purchases), cool... use that. If no such law exists, draw it up & put it up for a vote.
End of.
Scare-mongering shouldn’t be able to come into play, when the stakes are this high.