Days out from the NSW election, and in the wake of the Christchurch tragedy, what is the firearm policy of the party that could hold great bargaining power in any negotiations to form government?

Key points: The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party says it no longer wants to repeal the National Gun Control Agreement

The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party says it no longer wants to repeal the National Gun Control Agreement The Party says if it holds the balance of power it will not push for gun reform, but will focus on water and health as key issues

The Party says if it holds the balance of power it will not push for gun reform, but will focus on water and health as key issues The Party says it wants to digitise the Firearms Registry, but has not been able to get support from the Government

The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party is on target to hold on to its second seat in the Upper House and possibly win a third.

It has also launched its first major push into the Lower House, contesting 25 seats.

The party had previously argued for the repeal of the 1996 National Firearms Agreement, but members say they have walked away from that aspiration.

Before the shooting in Christchurch, NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, was already preparing to run a gun scare campaign using the former prime minister, John Howard, to condemn the party.

No focus on reform

In the days since the tragedy the Premier has increased her pressure on the Shooters Party and the preference deal the party has made with Labor in a number of seats.

Party leader, Robert Borsak, said what happened in Christchurch did not inform what was happening in NSW.

John Howard in an anti-gun ad for the NSW Liberal Party in the final week of the 2019 state election. ( Supplied )

"Nobody has ever been able to buy an AR-15 [in NSW] and do the sort of shocking damage that white supremacist did — the guns he used were covered off in 1996."

Mr Borsak said the party's focus in the next term of Parliament was not about gun reform.

"If we have the balance of power, we won't be pushing gun reform issues because they are not first order issues for us," he said.

"First order issues for us are water and health."

Removing 'criminal shopping lists'

On its website the party outlined 15 policy priorities including its pitch on firearms, including:

"Introduce legislation to remove the recording of ammunition sales [on paper], which serve no purpose in enhancing community safety and create criminal 'shopping lists'."

Mr Borsak said he knew of two books detailing ammunition sales that had been stolen from gun shops.

He said the party had not been able to get support from the government to fully digitise all aspects of the Firearms Registry, and he believed removing paper records would make the community safer.

The policy also talked about removing gun registration fees for past and serving defence force and law enforcement personnel and a permanent firearms amnesty.

It called for mandatory minimum sentences for serious crimes committed with guns and the removal of paintball guns from the Firearms Act.

Mark Banasiak is pushing to change access to silencers, but does not have the support of his party leader. ( ABC Illawarra: Sarah Moss )

Another part of the policy action plan talked about supporting family and home protection and increasing a person's right to self-defence, but Mr Borsak said he had no legislation planned to support this proposal.

The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party's lead Upper House candidate, Michael Banasiak, said in February that party members wanted sporting shooters to be given easier access to 'silencers', or 'suppressors' as they are also known.

But Mr Borsak said Mr Banasiak was not the leader of the party, and that he did not support any changes to how silencers could be accessed.

Mr Borsak said he did not believe it would upset the party's base of supporters if it ran soft on gun reform in the next term of Parliament.