Police are hunting a gunman who shot a man dead in a targeted attack in Sydney's south-west. Source: AAP
TOUGHER laws and more police resources are needed to stop Sydney's streets becoming "shooting galleries", NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson says.
Mr Robertson on Saturday called on Premier Barry O'Farrell to outlaw criminal gangs after a man was shot dead in a targeted attack in the city's west on Friday night.
The ABC says the man, who was killed next to his car on a suburban street in Greenacre, is 30-year-old Khaled Kahwaji, but a police spokeswoman was unable to confirm that to AAP.
Mr Kahwaji reportedly had links to the Brothers For Life street gang and was a suspect in the shooting murder of a man in the same area in 2010.
Mr Robertson said the shooting was the 220th since Mr O'Farrell became premier and it was time to pass legislation outlawing gangs.
"We've got to stop our streets looking more like shooting galleries than suburban streets," he told reporters.
The premier had laws in place for 12 months but had failed to act to outlaw gangs, Mr Robertson said.
He also called for greater police resources "to be thrown at this problem".
A neighbour, who has lived in Wilbur Street for 10 years, said she was shocked to see a body lying in the street in her usually quiet neighbourhood.
"It was just after six (on Friday night) and I just heard maybe about four to five loud sounds and I didn't realise it was gunshots," said Jenny, who did not want to give her last name.
"I came outside and you could just see the body on the ground."
The street remained closed as police continued investigations on Saturday.
"This is not a random incident. This person has been targeted and it's certainly not something that is random," Bankstown police Superintendent Dave Eardley told reporters.
"It's certainly an act that's quite vicious and callous."
Homicide Squad Detective Inspector Russell Oxford said the dead man, who was in his late twenties, was yet to be formally identified but was known to police.
He said police were speaking with residents on the street to try to determine why the man was there.
"The most important thing for us is to piece together the chain of events that brought the Rhodes resident to Wilbur Street," he said in a statement.
NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell rejected the opposition's calls, saying extra powers and 250 additional officers had been given to police at the request of the commissioner.
"I'll continue to support the police who've done a significant job," Mr O'Farrell told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.
"One thousand arrests, extra police, additional powers, all to try and stop this targeted villain-on-villain shooting."
Mr O'Farrell also called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to stop cutting staff and funds from the Customs department.
He said less than 10 per cent of air and sea cargo was inspected by Customs, making it easy for guns to make their way onto Sydney streets.
"It's no coincidence that last year NSW Police intercepted 220 Glock pistols being posted to this state.
"The quicker police are taking guns off the streets of western Sydney, the quicker they are coming back into the country because of the federal government's Customs cuts."
Mr O'Farrell that laws for the outlawing of gangs could now be applied - after the failure of a High Court challenge to them in Queensland - and would be discussed at the upcoming Council of Australian Governments meeting in April.
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