NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has promised the state's police force will do all it can to stop an outbreak of "thuggish" gun crimes in western Sydney.
Asked about a spate of shootings in recent days, Ms Keneally on Tuesday said "police will not let this situation continue".
"Make no mistake that our police ... are going to take every measure to ensure this sort of thuggish behaviour, this sort of intimidating behaviour by small numbers of individuals, does not continue to pose a threat on our streets," she told reporters in Sydney.
"Gun violence is down, and down dramatically, as a result of our police force, and they are not going to allow this sort of thuggish behaviour to rule again on Sydney's streets as it did so many decades ago."
In the past three days, two serious shootings in western Sydney have left four men in hospital.
In the early hours of Tuesday, a 39-year-old man was shot in the stomach when a van he was sitting in at Leppington was sprayed with bullets.
On Sunday, three men, aged 18, 19 and 23, were injured in a shooting in Old Guildford that police believe may be gang-related.
"They are senseless, they are a blight on society, a stain on the whole community that we live in," Fairfield Local Area Commander Superintendent Peter Lennon said on Tuesday of the Old Guildford shooting.
One of the three men is believed to be part of the Ibrahim family, some of whose members have been the target of gunfire in the past.
Hassan Sayour, believed to be one of the men shot in Old Guildford, is the nephew of nightclub entrepreneur John Ibrahim, News Ltd and TV reports said.
Former bikie boss Hassan "Sam" Ibrahim, John Ibrahim's brother, was shot twice in the leg in a drive-by attack on January 13, about two months after a drive-by shooting at the Sydney home of his sister Armani Stelio.
Another brother, Fadi Ibrahim, was shot in his car outside his suburban Sydney home in June 2009.
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