The discussion has been about examples of fees for some event type action, e.g. trials, campaigns, or parades.
Registering a gun is less of an "action". For instance - is it registered for a day, a month, year, or forever? Even a nominal daily fee would likely equal 100% the cost of a gun over time. I'm sure the supporters of registration are (currently) thinking of annual registration. But $10 (we should be so lucky) per year over 45 years is likely to be more than most of my guns cost. And there is consensus that those who own guns usually own several of them. While a modest one time fee doesn't seem too bad (even though it is covering cost of record keeping that I don't even want -- not like an understandable "head up" that city officials ought to get to prepare for a parade), do annual fees for a constitutional right seem okay? --jcr
