currently , a total of 215,462 licences exist compared to the 177,675 owned in 2010 by news corp. .
tamworth , 403 km north of sydney , was revealed to have most number of firearm licences - 3259 - with bathurst , 200 km west of sydney , a close second at 3075 .
currently , a total of 215,462 licences exist in new south wales compared to the 177,675 owned in 2010 .
although figures revealed that each person with a licence owns an average of 2.3 guns each .