I am not American. And the overwhelming majority of those 500 million weapons are with people that think Trump's fascist America is cool.
Im broadly anti gun but i have reasoning and am not blind to their purpose.
The reality right now is that those weapons aren't going anywhere, everything is heating up and nobody (including, increasingly, law enforcement) can be arbitrarily trusted.
So yes, as a last ditch hail mary attempt at self defense i'd recommend arming yourself because that is where the US is at.
To be clear, Synology branded drives are also third-party, but it's just third party they make money on. They don't actually make drives and there's no real technically valid reason behind this move.