Man charged in NSW over illegal firearms

A NSW man charged for illegal cache of firearms including semi-automatic rifles has been charged and released on bail.

Police say a strike force targeting outlaw bikie gangs seized guns including semi-automatic rifles, a revolver, two loaded Glock pistols and ammunition during raid on a home in Punchbowl, southwest of Sydney.

Ahmed Ismael has been released on $25,000 bail and ordered to report to police three times a week after appearing briefly in Parramatta Local Court on Saturday.

The 69-year-old man has been charged with multiple offences including possessing more than three unregistered firearms, two counts of not keeping a prohibited firearm safely, two counts of possessing an unauthorised prohibited firearm and possessing a defaced firearm.

He has also been forced to surrender his passport and will appear again at Bankstown Local Court on January 30.

The guns will undergo forensic and ballistic examination.