A former Stormont Minister has hit out at the PSNI after it introduced a new fee of £30 to be paid by firearms licence holders if they wish to keep an ammunition magazine for their weapon.
DUP North Antrim MLA and Policing Board representative Mervyn Storey said it was "an unjustified new tax on magazines of firearms".
The plan has also come in for criticism from TUV leader Jim Allister, who has written to the Chief Constable querying the plan.
Mr Storey said: "The emergence of this new licensing requirement for additional magazines will understandably be met with dismay by firearm holders across Northern Ireland who are already subject to a great deal of red tape and continue to act in good faith.