‘Hold on to your guns’: NSW Opposition leader says gun buyback scheme targets ‘wrong enemy’

Key points

• NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane has told gun owners who do not want to surrender their firearms to hold on to them. She vowed to scrap key elements of the state's gun buyback scheme if the Liberals win government in the March election.
• The Shooters Union has urged gun owners to boycott the scheme. Phase one, due to start in two weeks, offers between $450 and $1000 to licence holders who are above the new legal limit.
• Sloane said the focus should be on illegal firearms held by organised criminals and terrorists instead.