Quote Originally Posted by mostlyharmless View Post
Most of you are too young but we used to have a radio licence, it was renewed at the Post Office. It gave permission to record.
There were probably more of them than there are air rifle owners. There is no reason why it should be excessively expensive to run a licencing system.
It does not necessarily need to be run by the Police. We could put up the TV licence and Road Tax to pay for it
Don't forget that we have fishing licences as well.
Actually I think you may well find that both of those will cost more to run than they collect.