Sydney gun importation racket smashed Weapons recovered during the raid. Photo: NSW police A gun importation racket operating out of a suburban home in Sydney's south has been smashed, with police arresting a man and seizing a large cache of weapons. The 43-year-old man was arrested after police and customs officers allegedly seized weapons including revolvers, rifles, and equipment used to manufacture firearms at his Sylvania home on Tuesday. Police also seized hundreds of rounds of ammunition. A gun found during the raid in Sylvania. The acting director of organised crime for the NSW Police, Detective Superintendent Ken Finch, said the discovery was significant. "The weaponry seized yesterday was capable of causing major destruction and loss of life, and had no place in suburban Sydney," Detective Superintendent Finch said. The weapon haul included two revolvers, a shortened shotgun, a rifle, various parts for AR15 and M15 assault rifles, body armour, machetes, three hand grenades, a claymore mine and an improvised explosive device. A knife found during a raid on a Sydney house. Specialist officers from the Australian Army were called to remove the ordnance, which was inert when found but capable of being made active. The man in custody faces 18 firearm-related charges, and is due to face Sutherland Local Court on Wednesday. In May this year, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service officers doing routine screening detected part of a firearm part inside a package sent from overseas. A gun found during the raid. Officers then found another gun part in a shipment on July 3. The man's arrest came after police dismantled a gun-smuggling ring in March last year, which was operating out of Sylvania Waters post office. Post office licensee Andrew Botros remains in custody, charged with importing 150 Glock pistols from Germany. Police say the the post office scheme was not linked to the arrest at Sylvania on Tuesday. Detective Superintendent Finch, said police would continue to target illegal gun crime in Sydney and "work together to target those people who want to flout the law by possessing and using illegal guns in our community." NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas will be announcing a major operation on gun crime at a press conference in Sydney on Wednesday morning.