Today on FX- 44 Minutes!!!!!!

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Today on the channel FX is going to be an origonal TV movie on some bank shoot out (forget which one exactly, maybe LA?). Anyway, it looks really good. The criminals have AKs and body armor and the cops are mostly outgunned and such.

I suppose the confrontation lasted 44 minutes because that is the name of the movie! Anyone ese going to watch this? I sure has heck plan on doing so! Looks action packed, and better still, it's based on a true story!
 
It's based on the North Hollywood bank shootout from a few years back.
And no, it's not a good thing that it's based on a true story. People were shot during the course of that robbery. Luckily enough, the two robbers were not very competent, otherwise it would have turned out a lot worse.
 
It will be interesting to see if the program addresses the shortsightedness of LAPD managment in equipping and training their officers prior to the incident. IIRC Los Angeles has been the bank robbery capital of the United States for quite some time.
 
Naw, the impression I got is that the cps are going to be portrayed as heros so I doubt anyting negative will be said of them.

Also, it is good that it is based on real life as real life is more interesting and educational than a fake bank robery movie. Not doing a movie on it wll not bring the officers their lives back. I don't hate WWII movies because Americans died in WWII, you gotta think about it.
 
The advertisement on the radio for it today use the following phrase: "They were armed with military weapons," so I assume it will be pretty anit-gun.

-SquirrelNuts
 
The advertisement on the radio for it today use the following phrase: "They were armed with military weapons," so I assume it will be pretty anit-gun.
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It will only be good as long as they make it perfectly clear that the AK's (Mak-90's?) they were using were not legal and banned under gun control laws.

Of course, fat chance they'll actually do that.
 
I fear it will be a typical Hollywood dramatization.
I fear it will not be accurate.
I fear it will be anti gun and more specifically anti assault weapon.
I fear it will be rerun over and over before the AWB sunset.
 
Somehow I doubt they are going to give the robbers' side of things or go over their equipment in detail besides saying body armor and AK-baby killer model-47, etc.

-SquirrelNuts
 
It will only be good as long as they make it perfectly clear that the AK's (Mak-90's?) they were using were not legal and banned under gun control laws.
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Now, be careful there! When you use that line of reasoning, you open up the possability to Antis that if real AKs were legal to own under gun control laws, that it would be bad. Thus agreeing that it is bad for real AKs to be legally owned.
 
I also doubt if they will point out the fact that the LAPD had to borrow (now banned in Ca.) rifles from a local gun shop (since driven out of business) to help with the fire fight.

Greg
 
Now, be careful there! When you use that line of reasoning, you open up the possability to Antis that if real AKs were legal to own under gun control laws, that it would be bad. Thus agreeing that it is bad for real AKs to be legally owned.
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Yeah, I see what your saying. The point I was trying to make though is they should show the whole lot of good that gun control has done... those guys got there full-auto AK's despite the laws.
 
One must remember that:
A.This incident occured in California.
B.More likely written in California.
C.Produced in California.
As such,will more likely have a huge anti-gun spin.
The sheep must be made to "feel" safe at all times.

QuickDraw
 
Did they really empty an entire AK into the ceiling? A beta mag none the less? Seems to me, 5 rounds would have done the trick without making everyone in the bank so deaf they couldnt hear commands.

AK-47 Machine gun?


Gripe gripe gripe

/Arcli9ht
 
Couple of points to ponder...

First, wasn't there a question that these were fully-automatic weapons, made by a Chinese company that was connected to Clinton (by donations) that were illegally smuggled into the country? Or was this later disproved.

Second, if the rifles that the cops grabbed from the gun store had been banned for civilian use, and hence not available, or the gun store not there at all, wouldn't it have been much worse? So, the fact that such firearms can be bought by civilians made it possible for the cops to fight back successfully.
 
Yeah, FPrice, but the movie is skipping that entire gun store event. They changing the story, so that the SWAT team is what brought the ARs......


Other points that disgust me so far,

1. AK Machine guns?????? Guy makes a big point about how dangerous AK machine guns are and that the powerful bullets are designed to pierce body armor.

2. Full auto firing like he has a 200 round mag in the ak? I thought they fired semi only?

3. The old cop talks about Chinese made AKs...Think Russki, comrade!

4. The cop was telling a story of how the two guys got pulled over with an AK and 1200 rounds of ammo. Was acting like that was such a big deal, and to top it off, he couldn't believe how they got their guns back after serving a 6 month jail sentence.

5. Of course the worst part is, as mentioned before, how they changed the story so that the gunstore is no longer the heros with the ARs, but it is the SWAT team! Give me a break!! :barf: :barf: :barf:
 
So far it has taken an hour for them to reload.....after spending about.......um? 46 or 47 million rounds!
 
After seeing a bolt action rifle...

"I can't believe people can just buy this stuff!"


ARGH!

/Arcli9ht
 
OOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

The worst part yet! They DID include the gunstore part, but in a NEGATIVE manner.

They go in BEGGING for weapons, the owners show them the ARs, CAR 15s, and bolt action 700 sniper rifle. Now these owners are saving the cops rear ends, and this one cop has the audacity to go

"I can't BELIEVE they let people buy these things!"

If I was the owner I would have kicked him out right then and there. What an ungreatful jack booted thug!!
 
Then they throw in the part making the owner look like a money grubbing a-hole.

"Who is going to pay for all this."

Well, I guess they did just take 7000 dollars in his merchandise, I would be asking the same question.

/Arcli9ht
 
The first gunmen who got killed, put the gun under his chin, and shot and killed himself from everything I've seen. Just another way this movie is inaccurate. Why was the beretta so loud? This movie is a large anti-gun movie, and I'm sure the anti's will use this movie in thier fight. Such as the fully automatic gun, it looks like anyone can go and buy one, and plus I doubt that story of the criminals getting their guns back, I think they would realize them being fully-auto, if not it's the cops ignorance which costs them.
 
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