It can very easily cut both ways, and lead to very fundamental rights which we hold dear being infringed upon. The more indirect the level of control, generally the greater the potential for abuse or de facto banning.
The best regulation is the one we don't have to make, because we can manage to work it out between one another. This has the bonus of not sending a message to our descendants that we do not care for their eventual civil liberties, and what they do given they will be in a far better position to utilize them then than we are today.
Is it, perhaps, illegal for them to even tell you?
Even if he were the Secretary of Defense, he would have no weapons. They merely command people who command other people who have such weapons.
You don’t know the names, plans, or motivations of any of those people.