Hello I collect more than 25 years, i am happy with the law as we have it now, of course there are things that could be better, but in Holland mostly everything is forbidden,....... but you can get a licence , if you want to collect live full auto fire arms, its forbidden, but ...it is possible, it will take a lot of time but it is still possible, if you want to collect ( hand ) Grenades or mines, even AP mines its forbidden but you can get a license for it. as long as you are a serious collector you should have no problems. As soon as you go digging or selling ammo on the internet you have a problem and you will loose your licence. If we want to buy something in an other country we need papers, even when it is inert, yes we would like to have other laws, but I do not think that it will happen. If you see the situation in Belgium that they want to ban the sales of inert Ammo on the shows like Ciney and Arlon, i am curios how the Government in Belgium will handle this, Collecting inert Ammo is free in Belgium, we will soon find out they are making the new law this month. There is a rumour that there they want to ban everything in Belgium, and that the collectors will have the same system as we have in Holland, of course we would like to have the same law as in the UK, but you see what is happening, if you have bad luck there will be a knock on the door and you loose everything, this could not happen in Holland, if i carry something into my car, and the police stops me, i have my paperwork, that's the big plus with paperwork. i know not everybody in Holland agrees with me, but i think that the system we have is not too bad, I wish you all a Wonderful 2015, in Good Health and may all your wishes come through. Regards Ben