The largest number of firearms registered to single licence holder was 77 within the 2650 postcode, which includes Wagga's suburbs and outlying areas like Collingullie and Downside.

The number of firearms licence holders in Wagga's postcode grew by five people over the past three months to 2865.

The Wagga postcode's total number of registered firearms decreased by 1.5 per cent over the past three months to 11,121 firearms, but it was still enough to stay in the top six areas across NSW.

Tamworth had the most registered firearms at 15,548 followed by Bathurst, Dubbo, Goulburn and Orange.

Sporting Shooters' Association Wagga president Arthur Robinson said the city had large numbers of competitive shooters, which kept the numbers high.

"Wagga is very much a centre of all the sporting shooters, we have got the national clay target centre out on Copland Street that attracts a lot of people," he said.

"We have the small bore club, the full bore club out at Lockhart.

"The Sporting Shooters Association has 1000 members in just this one branch, and there are a lot of others that are just hunters that shoot to control feral animals on private land.

"It doesn't surprise me at all that we have those numbers; it's nothing to be concerned about."

The information released by the NSW Firearms Registry covered the period between December 31 and March 31.

Mr Robinson said the person in Wagga's postcode with 77 firearms probably had not sought a collector's licence because they wanted to keep shooting with the guns they owned rather than just display them.

NSW did not follow states such as Victoria and Queensland in suspending firearms registration and sales during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mr Robinson said sports shooting clubs had been affected in the same ways as other sports clubs.

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Riverina Police District has handed down a total of five firearm prohibition orders in the three months to the end of March.

A firearm prohibition order allows police to search for firearms or ammunition in homes, cars and on a person's body without a warrant.

Mr Robinson said crime statistics showed that it was rare for firearms offences to be committed by a licensed person.

"Any firearms offences in Wagga would not be committed by licensed people, almost certainly," he said.

"That would be very rare."