NSW police say a split within the Sydney Brothers 4 Life crime gang is behind a spate of shootings in the city's west.
NSW Police have targeted the gang in recent weeks following a wave of shootings in Sydney, with five gang members arrested earlier this month for a shooting at Bankstown on November 7.
Another Brothers 4 Life associate was arrested at Sydney Airport on Sunday over a shooting at Rydalmere in May.
Deputy Police Commissioner Nick Kaldas said internal conflict in the gang had sparked the shootings.
"We believe the split within the ranks has been entirely responsible for all the shootings in the very recent past," Mr Kaldas told ABC television.
He said he didn't believe suggestions radical Islam was playing a part inside the criminal group were correct.
"I am aware that there are allegations that radicalisation or extremist views play a part in the group. But on the ground in day-to-day criminal activity that they've been involved in, there hasn't been much evidence of that," Mr Kaldas said.
He said the gang was really about "selfish profit driven criminality - pure and simple".
The comments come after police on Friday seized a modified semi-automatic rifle from a backyard in Liverpool, similar to those used in recent shootings.
On the same day, officers descended on a home in Berala, seizing a rifle and ammunition allegedly linked to Brothers 4 Life.
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