Australia: Gun ownerships 'getting out of control' in NSW The Sunday Telegraph December 11, 2011 12:00AM
SOARING gun ownership in NSW is expected to soon exceed levels prior to the federal government's 1996 buy-back program.
Figures obtained by The Sunday Telegraph show there are 188,885 people on the NSW Police Firearms Register, just short of the estimated 200,000 licence holders pre- the Port Arthur massacre, which triggered changes to gun laws.
NSW Greens described the increase as "alarming" and gun control groups warned that more and more firearms would end up on the black market.
"The trend is all one-way in NSW; that is, more guns and more gun owners and that is a dangerous trend," NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge said.
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