Queensland needs to go further in targeting guns on the ‘grey market’ to put an end to the rising number of shootings, a criminologist says.

It’s estimated there are 260,000 illicit firearms nationwide, many of which entered circulation from the ‘grey market’, as unregistered weapons that weren’t surrendered in buyback schemes.

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Bond University criminologist Terry Goldsworthy told Bill McDonald buyback schemes could divert the weapons away from the black market but have seen decreasing success over the years.

“We do have a gun buyback going at the moment but … only 2000 weapons had been surrendered in Queensland to early this year,” he said.

“We’re not seeing many weapons come back from that grey market. I think we could probably do a little more there.”

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