It's a one time $25 tax... I'll bet almost everyone on this board pays 4-8 times that amount, yearly, registering their motorcycle(s). :laughing
Just quoting your first post.
Only a one time tax? Just like the dros fee done on every gun is a one time fee. One time per transaction. It adds up and what benefit do we see from that fee? You have to pay a fee to get a firearms safety certificate. One time. Every 5 years it needs to be renewed though. What makes you think the pols won't change it to every couple of years? Every year?
You go in to buy your first gun with relatively little research other than you know you want a Glock. First thing they ask is do you have a firearms safet cert. No? Ok heres the test but it's $25 or whatever i can't remember. Hey you passed, congrats!! So you pick out the gun and they give you the total otd cost. What is a dros fee? Damn ok i'll pay it because i really want that gun. Plus sales tax on top of that. The cost is really going up with all these add ons.
Then the kicker. CADOJ is so messed up doling out info that now your regular DL is no good. Actually it is but only if it's the older version and many shops can't keep the ever changing info they receive curent or get differing answers from CADOJ depending on who they talk to. What do you mean i need a REAL ID? Well your DL says fed limits apply and that is a no-go for purchasing a gun. You still want that gun? Now you have to make an appt at the DMV to get a non "fed limits apply" REAL ID. At that point, i'm sure many people just throw up their hands and say "Fuck it. This is too much trouble." and walk out.
This is just an example of the incrementalism you hear gun owners talk about. There's no stopping the state. Here's another add on coming by Swalwell and voted on by the idiots in this state (potentially) to add a $50 per gun surcharge to "combat gun violence". It's just him yapping but it will gain traction and TA DA another fee.
Most people including gun owners are in favor of less gun violence so it passes big time. It doesn't and won't stop there. The long term plan by pols is to make firearms prohibitively expense to own by regular people, unless they can outright ban them.
There are members in congress talking about a huge insurance rider needed specifically for gun owners. Theres another fee or tax.
Hope this was at least a little informative.
Sorry for the rant. Just chaps my hide is all.