The story is that Schmecker went to a doctor to try and get pain meds. Often, when a veteran who gets their health care through the VA shows up at a doctor's office looking for pain pills, they're required to get a psych evaluation from the VA in an effort to screen out drug-seeking behaviors. Schmecker refused to get that evaluation. So the doctor who referred him back to the VA for the evaluation called for a follow-up when Schmecker wasn't home. He called, not intentionally, just happened to be when the dude wasn't home. And apparently the answering machine message that he got was enough to worry him for Schmecker's well-being. The doctor recommended a wellness check, and after that point, the police showed up, and he allegedly had his guns confiscated. I'm not sure what to make of this story, primarily because the only information I can find on it comes directly from him. And even by his telling of the story, his actions created the situation he found himself in. This wasn't an instance of tyranny coming around. It's more a case of a guy refusing to follow the VA's guidelines who had a disturbing outbound message on his answering machine, who then acted in ways that are huge red flags to mental health care providers. Like, there's no way to say this for sure, but I have almost zero doubt that if he'd just shown up for the VA psych evaluation, it would have just been a formality. He would have been fine as long as he didn't use it as an opportunity to rant about the government trying to use psych evaluations to control the few people in society who were truly awake. If he'd just gone in, he'd have his pain medication and his guns. I'm almost certain of that.