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He had six guns registered to his name.
NSW has more registered guns than any other state in Australia.
Sajid was among 254,992 registered gun owners in NSW as of July 2025, a figure which excludes collectors.
And there are 1,133,690 individual registered firearms in the state.
Among them, only 107,219 belong to collectors or dealers.
There is currently no limit to the number of guns a registered firearm owner can legally own.
There are 2232 gun owners in Windsor in Sydney’s north-west, 1248 owners in Wentworthville in the city’s west, 2010 in the south-west suburb of Liverpool and 1123 in the Maroubra area.
Camden, in Sydney’s south-west, had the largest number of gun owners in the capital at 2621.
There are 9956 legally-owned guns in this suburb alone – that is an average of 3.7 guns per gun owner in Camden.
Outside of Sydney, these figures balloon significantly.
Bathurst in NSW’s Central Tablelands has the most gun owners in the state.
There are 3683 licensed gun owners in Bathurst.
Goulburn is a close second, with 3338 gun owners living in the Southern Tablelands city.
The statistics also break down the number of guns owned by each individual.
One person in Goulburn owned 298 guns as of July 2025.
An individual firearm owner in the Chifley-La Perouse region in Sydney has 295 guns, while someone in Punchbowl is registered to have 226 guns.
These owners are not gun dealers, nor are they collectors.
There are an average of four guns belonging to each registered firearm owner in NSW.
The chief reason for issued prohibited weapon permits in NSW is categorised as “general”, or unspecified.
The NSW government releases this report biannually, with the latest figures expected to be released this month.
Federal gun ownership laws will be revised as an urgent priority following a national cabinet meeting.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said among the reforms would be a limit on the number of guns a person can own.
NSW Premier Chris Minns today said he will call back parliament on December 22 and 23 to rush through urgent laws to keep the community safe, including reforms to cap the number of firearms, reclassify certain firearms and reduce magazine capacity for shotguns.
The reform will also strip back NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) powers from overturning police decisions to cancel a gun owner’s licence.
“At the moment, NSW police routinely yank licences from gun holders and licence holders they suspect or fear are a threat to the community,” Minns said.
‘Those appeals are heard in NCAT, and often police’s objections are overturned and the guns remain with that individual, and we’ll extinguish that appeal pathway.”
There are over four million guns owned by civilians nationwide.
Australia’s current legislation stems from the National Firearms Agreement set up in 1996 by former prime minister John Howard after the Port Arthur massacre in which 35 people died.
While the guns used by the two alleged gunmen in the Bondi attack have not been named by authorities, it has been widely reported they included a bolt-action rifle and a shotgun.
“He was determined to be entitled to have a firearms licence and had a firearms licence,” NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said of gunman Sajid.
“[That] person had a firearms licence for a number of years, for which there were no incidents and it was regulated.”
