I haven't bought a rifle scope in over 30 years, so I'm not worried about it.

That ATN manufactures Night Vision and Thermal Imaging optics that are restricted from export.
Customs keeps intercepting illegal export shipments of these devices- not from the company or wholesalers.
They are investigating who is doing this and figure to run down some people outside the U.S. that have these devices.
The Obsidian app works with the HD imaging systems of these optics, so they think they will find some bad guys out there.

Buying rifle scopes or not has nothing to do with the government issuing a blanket order to collect data on everyone with the app regardless of whether they have committed a crime.
If you are okay with that, then you should sleep well at night.

I'll just treat your backhanded final statement as a bonus feature. Enjoy your stay.

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I’d hope that anyone at ATN would do whatever it could to make sure that it’s products were not used against American citizens, law enforcement, friendly forces.

And you picked someone with no law enforcement or military experience to respond

Just to screw up their statistics. It gives them so many more to investigate.

Edit: I just installed this on my phone, it doesn't require that you have the scope.

I have one that lets me plug in my specific load data, and then give me a handy table along with a graphic that lets me choose my reticle and then literally shows me the holdover.

I only own bolt-action rifles, but I do sometimes hunt out to 400 yards - it's really handy.

I expect many will say they should give up the information because guns

That would set a precedent however for the government to request a similar list of information on any other app to locate potential criminals, say for example a list of information on all snapchat users

"evil sniper rifles" are.