The AR and in particular the AK 47 or 74, the media brings out footage of the North Hollywood Bank America shootout whenever gun control is brought up in LA.
You know how your local news station occasionally loses their focus on the daily mind numbing carnage and tragedy and during that brief respite as they segway over to the weather they may play images of the seasons, like if it is late winter images of melting ice and snow flow into a small stream, or if it's fall images of trees turning colors? Here they show the black hooded robbers with the large drum clip equipped AK 74 on full auto sauntering through the police in the parking lot like it's an early Sunday afternoon and they're out checking the wares of a rummage sale. I think they do it to get the ban guns season underway.
cynically joe