In short:
Local firearms businesses claim they have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in trade since the NSW government's post-Bondi gun laws passed in December.
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The Bondi terror attack, in which 15 people were killed, prompted the NSW parliament to pass Australia's strictest gun laws.
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The NSW Liberal Party has pledged to remove the caps and freeze the buyback.
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Firearms dealers have tearfully described losing retirement nest eggs and being forced to sell their home, blaming the Minns government's post-Bondi gun laws.
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Taylah Malloy and her mother Sarah Turner were among families who rallied at parliament on Wednesday, as six crossbenchers work to block Labor's buyback regulations and repeal new limits on ownership.
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Ms Malloy said her parents' business, Arms & Ammo, in the Newcastle suburb of Beresfield, was meant to fund their retirement but had become worthless since the changes.
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"Imagine if your parents, their super just blew up in their faces, and they ended up with nothing,"Ms Malloy said.
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The massacre of 15 people at a Jewish celebration in December prompted the NSW parliament to pass Australia's strictest gun laws.
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Most licence holders were banned from owning more than four firearms and certain types now require stricter licences.
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As part of the state's buyback scheme due to begin in November, dealers have been offered grants of up to $25,000.
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Ms Malloy said her parents' business had lost more than $800,000 in firearms trade alone, and described $25,000 as a "drop in the ocean".
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"There are people that are losing that amount per day within their businesses," she said.
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Ms Turner said her business had stock it could no longer sell because of the lower caps on ownership.
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"It's like being in quicksand," Ms Turner said.
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The dealership could not recoup the costs of the firearms through the buyback scheme, she said, as it applies only to individual licence holders.
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Ms Turner broke down as she described how the family and clay target shooters and hunters had lost everything they built.
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"We put our life into our business, and it's just been taken away,"she said.
"We've got nothing to retire on."
Zac and Courtney Kirwan said they were preparing to shut their firearms, hunting and outdoors store at Castle Hill in Sydney's north-west after trade plunged 80 per cent.
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"It's just like turning off a tap," Mr Kirwan said.
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He said the business, Badlands, supported the couple and their two young daughters, and employed five people.
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Now the family has had to sell a house and move back in with their parents.
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"We're basically losing everything.
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We have to find new jobs," Mr Kirwan said.
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"I think sometimes people don't realise, well the government doesn't realise how much damage they can do to personal lives with the stroke of a pen," he said.
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Mr Kirwan described the $25,000 grant proposed as a "spit in the face", saying their business was "probably over $1 million down".
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"It's literally crushed us, and we've done nothing wrong."
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The premier's office has been approached for comment.
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In question time, Attorney General Michael Daley said it was "inarguable" there were "too many guns in our society".
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"We've seen a spate of gangland shootings,"Mr Daley said.
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Upon announcing the buyback scheme in August, NSW Premier Chris Minns said: "This is a big undertaking, but the principle behind it is simple: fewer dangerous guns in our community means a safer New South Wales."
Disallowance motions to freeze buyback regulations
While the state Liberals supported the reforms passed on Christmas Eve, the party has pledged to remove the caps and freeze the buyback.
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Last week, the opposition backed an attempt by independent Barwon MP Roy Butler to stop the buyback regulations by voting in favour of a disallowance motion.
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Another disallowance motion is set to be moved by the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (SFF) next month in the upper house, where the numbers are much tighter.
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SFF MLC Mark Banasiak said stopping the regulations could come to a single vote.
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"I'm never confident, but I'm working my backside off to make sure we get this done," Mr Banasiak said.
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"Regardless of what you think about firearms, these are small business owners, and this government is deliberately and wilfully destroying their business."
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