The New South Wales premier has backtracked on a central element of a Shooters and Fishers’ private member’s bill – enshrining a right to hunt – saying it could undermine gun control and send the state down the US path of a right to bear arms.

“We won’t be supporting any provision in [the bill] that will water down gun laws in NSW. They’ve been important pieces of keeping the community safe for a long period of time,” Chris Minns said.

“In relation to the right to hunt, on reflection, I’ve had a look at it, and I think that that shouldn’t be in the legislation,” he said.

Minns had initially supported the controversial bill which would have allowed recreational hunters to shoot feral animals on public lands like state forests and crown lands.

But the Conservation Hunting bill has dra

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