Bondi Beach shooting LIVE updates: MP fires back after declaring he does NOT support tough new firearm laws - as hero who was shot four times after confronting alleged Bondi gunmen is identified

NSW Premier Chris Minns announced on Friday that he was proposing to cap how many firearms an individual can own to four, with strict exemptions for primary producers and sporting shooters.

But former Olympic sport shooter and federal MP for Hunter Dan Repacholi has said he will not support the proposed gun law changes because they are specific to state parliament - not Canberra.

'I have received thousands of emails and calls in the last 24 hours about the proposed gun law changes that will go before the NSW Parliament on Monday,' he said.

'Firearms laws in Australia are primarily state-based, and the matters raised by Premier Minns are decisions for the NSW Parliament, not the Federal Parliament.

'I won’t be voting on NSW firearms legislation.

'Australia has strong gun laws and they save lives, but I do not support changes that unfairly target responsible, law-abiding firearms owners.

'Measures that are blunt, symbolic, or simply designed to appease public anger without improving safety are not the answer.'

Repacholi said that, as a licensed firearms owner, he has gone through the same background checks, fit and proper person assessments, training, waiting periods and storage requirements.

'I understand the responsibility that comes with lawful ownership, and I know that the overwhelming majority of firearms owners do the right thing,' he said.

'What happened at Bondi was horrific and should never have occurred. People are right to ask hard questions about whether it could have been prevented.

'From what we are learning, the focus should be on information sharing, risk identification and enforcement of existing powers, not on arbitrary limits that penalise people who have done nothing wrong.

'NSW Police already have significant powers to suspend or cancel licences where someone is not fit and proper.'

Minns' measures include three specific steps towards tightening gun laws in NSW, with his government proposing to:

• Reclassify straight, pull, pump-action, button, lever release firearms into category C – limiting their access primarily to farmers, agriculture and primary producers;
• Reduce magazine capacities for category A and B firearms to a maximum of five to 10 rounds from a current unlimited capacity7;
• Introduce a complete ban on firearms that can use belt-fed magazines;
• And remove the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal review pathway once a designation has been made that the licence should be taken.

The move follows similar federal legislation announced by Anthony Albanese this morning.

His government has launched a national buyback scheme to collect and destroy newly banned and illegal firearms from Australian gun owners.

The Prime Minister said the scheme will be the 'largest buyback since the Howard government initiated one in 1996'.

Seven men arrested at gunpoint in dramatic scenes have accused police of threatening to 'shoot them in the head', and 'making up bulls**t' as they were freed from custody.

The group were stopped by heavily armed officers outside Westfield Liverpool in southwest Sydney on Thursday afternoon.

Police received reports the men from Melbourne were possibly on their way to Bondi but have not found any connection to the investigation into last Sunday's massacre at the famous beach that claimed 15 innocent lives.

The group dubbed the so-called 'Liverpool Seven' were released on Friday afternoon without charge after they spent the night in custody.

Police found insufficient evidence to keep the men behind bars.

One of the men claimed to waiting media outside the station that the group had been racially profiled.

'We didn't do nothing wrong. My beliefs are we all live peacefully, we don't give a f*** about no one,' he said.

'It was racism, what else could it be?

'They're [the police] making bulls**t up, they can only hold us for six hours then they changed the charge from a state charge to a Commonwealth charge so they could hold us for 24 hours.

'They're just making up bullshit so they could hold us longer and find something cause they're f**ked up.'

The 15th victim the Bondi Beach tragedy has been identified as eastern suburbs grandmother Tania Tretiak.

It’s understood the 68-year-old from Randwick, was attending the Hanukkah by the Sea celebration where she was fatally shot.

Other victims include Rabbi Yaakov Levitan, 39, French national Dan Elkayam, 27, Wellington Street synagogue assistant Reuven Morrison, Slovak citizen Marika Pogany, 82, retired NSW Police detective sergeant Peter Meagher, 61, Edith Brutman, Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61, Soviet immigrant Boris Tetleroyd, Adam Smyth, 50, British-born Chabad Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41,10-year-old Matilda, Alex Kleytman, 87 and Tibor Weitzen, 78.