You have been
watching way too many movies. Criminals have semi autos or revolvers or single shot guns. Most don't even have any ARs or AKs. Once Swat shows up, the Cops have the criminals outgunned so bad, it's silly with their Colt Model 6250 ARs. You've earned a FAKE NEWS!!!!!
You're being foolish. Criminals have had automatic weapons for decades. Another reason for police ramping up their own weapons and vehicles.
How the North Hollywood shootout changed policing
More than 300 outgunned LEOs from five agencies, fighting for their lives, fired more than 550 rounds
Mar 1, 2017
By Dana Bartholomew
Daily News, Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — LAPD Officer James Zboravan was two months and eight days out of the police academy when he faced a barrage of machine-gun fire, shot and wounded a bank robber and dove across unarmored officers to shield them with his bulletproof vest.
He was shot four times before leaping through an exploding glass doorway.
An inside view of a bullet ridden LAPD patrol car windshield is seen while on display at the North Hollywood police station prior to a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the shootout. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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“There was no time to be scared. It’s not a macho thing. There’s so much going on. You fall back on your training — the best in the world,” recalled Zboravan, an award-winning sergeant now serving as an assistant watch commander at Northeast Division. “The lesson is, very plainly: “Just because you’re shot doesn’t mean you’re going to die. You must fight on.”
Twenty years ago, on Feb. 28, 1997, two men armed with fully automatic weapons and clad in heavy body armor did more than rob the Bank of America at 6600 Laurel Canyon Blvd. in North Hollywood.
For 44 thunderous minutes, they marched through a neighborhood under siege, spraying stores, homes and cars with 1,100 armor-piercing bullets, wounding 11 police officers and six bystanders.
More than 300 outgunned law enforcement officers from five agencies, fighting for their lives, fired back with more than 550 rounds. But most were from .38 revolvers or 9 mm pistols pitted against an arsenal of high-capacity AK-47s and automatic rifles.
The nation then watched the terror unfold on live TV as news helicopters broadcast the battle now known as the North Hollywood shootout.
When the shell casings stopped rolling, two bandits lay dead — one after shooting himself after sustaining 10 gunshot wounds — and the other after bleeding to death from 29 gunshots after telling police, “F--- you. Shoot me in the head.”
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How the North Hollywood shootout changed policing
Police in this infamous shootout were forced to go to gun shops to acquire the necessary weapons and ammunition to combat these criminals. Nothing has changed to this day.