article_snippet.sent: The number of firearm licence holders in New South Wales has increased by more than 20 per cent in the last five years.
article_snippet.sent: Both suburbs saw an increase of almost 500 guns in Both suburbs over the last five years.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Superintendent Mick Plotecki (pictured) said US's popular national gun laws and pop culture was likely to be driving an increase of almost 500 guns in their areas over the last five years .
article_snippet.sent: Detective Superintendent Mick Plotecki said the United State's popular national gun laws, and the country's influence on Australia through popular culture, was likely to be driving the increase in licence holders in the United State's. '
article_snippet.sent: There is an element in the community who are swayed by the US culture that guns are a right rather than a privilege,' Detective Superintendent Mick Plotecki told News Corp. 'Generally speaking however Australians don't have a strong gun culture and recent strong reaction against relaxing News Corp. ' gun ownership laws is indicative of this - Australians don't want lax gun laws'.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Superintendent Mick Plotecki added that there did not appear to have been an increase in gun related crime that related to the increase in licences.
highlights_snippet.sent: Firearm licence holders grew from 177,675 to 215,462 in the last five years .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: However there has not been a related increase in gun related crime .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Detective Superintendent Mick Plotecki said U.S.'s popular national gun laws and their influence through pop culture, is likely reason for increase .