PAY PEOPLE WHAT THE GUN IS ACTUALLY WORTH

The price list for the gun buyback landed on Sunday and a working centrefire rifle is worth exactly $1,000 now, whatever you paid for it.

Fifteen people were murdered at Bondi and nobody out here is arguing that man should have had a firearm. But the scheme that opens on 2 November will take up to 274,000 guns off around 50,000 owners, close to a quarter of every registered firearm in New South Wales, and more than 10,000 of the people it lands on live right here in Murray.

Phase one pays a flat rate off a schedule, so a centrefire rifle is $1,000, a rimfire is $600, a single barrel shotgun is $650 and a double barrel is $850, no matter what the thing is actually worth or what it would cost to replace. Phase two, the one that pays closer to real value, does not open until early 2027 and it only starts at $3,000. So if your rifle sits at $2,000 you are too dear for the schedule and too cheap for phase two and you wear the difference yourself.

NSW Farmers asked for fair market value based on what these tools cost before any of this started, including the ammunition and the parts and they were knocked back. The right to appeal to an independent tribunal has been taken away as well, so now the police review the police.

It opens in eleven weeks and there is still no list of where you actually take them.

I voted against this Act in December alongside Joe McGirr, Roy Butler, Philip Donato and Judy Hannan, and the fix has not changed since. Pay people what the gun is genuinely worth.

If you are licensed and this hits you, email my office at murray@parliament.nsw.gov.au and tell us what it is costing you, because real examples are what gets a law amended.