AmericanFreeBird
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Last night (Tues 6/24/03) I saw the made for TV dramatazation of the North Hollywood shootout. Where two bank robbers with a load of evil "assault" rifles and lots 'n lots of ammo just shootup the LAPD.
Aside from the one comment that a police officer makes while "borrowing" some AR's from a local gun shop "You mean they actually let people buy these?". The entire movie, IMHO, makes the LAPD look like a bunch of boobs. (Perhaps that was the only ture part of the movie?)
The absolute ignorance displayed on the part of the LAPD to shooting, ballistics, body armour, and the effective range of the 9mm Beretta M92 was astounding. The shootout dipicts about 30 officers with 12ga shotguns and 9mm pistols shooting from about 40 to 100yds away from their targets (couldn't get any closer I suppose?) while AN ARMOURED CAR is litterally sitting in the background scene. They later use the AC to remove some of the people who were shot from the scene.
They could have ended the whole thing with that armoured car in 10 min. Had they had slugs in their 12ga, they could have ended the encounter as well. The body armour may have stopped the 12ga slug (doubt it) but the person wouldn't be getting up soon even if it did.
On top of all that, the complete lack of preparedness (not a long gun among them), 30 to 40 police and not one of them with a rifle! Any rifleman could have ended that standoff with two shots from a relatively safe distance.
When the boys in blue with the training and the M4's and M16's finally show up, they pull up to point blank range on one BG, put a truck between themselves and the BG and procede to waste several hundred rounds shooting up the truck, the BG's car, and the surrounding neighborhood! Had they stood off 50 to 100yds, just down the street, took up positions to put the BG in a crossfire he'd have assumed room temperature in about 20 shots (based on normal police accuracys).
If I were an LAPD officer, I would not want that film blasted over the airwaves too much. It makes them look like complete idiots. If part of your job involves being able to shoot and shoot well then you'd better know how to do it in a combat situation. This is a pitiful attempt by the LiberMedia to poison the pool and try to get the "assault" weapons ban renewed.
The whole movie really showed how unprepared the city police were to handle anything other than a routine traffic stop.
Aside from the one comment that a police officer makes while "borrowing" some AR's from a local gun shop "You mean they actually let people buy these?". The entire movie, IMHO, makes the LAPD look like a bunch of boobs. (Perhaps that was the only ture part of the movie?)
The absolute ignorance displayed on the part of the LAPD to shooting, ballistics, body armour, and the effective range of the 9mm Beretta M92 was astounding. The shootout dipicts about 30 officers with 12ga shotguns and 9mm pistols shooting from about 40 to 100yds away from their targets (couldn't get any closer I suppose?) while AN ARMOURED CAR is litterally sitting in the background scene. They later use the AC to remove some of the people who were shot from the scene.
They could have ended the whole thing with that armoured car in 10 min. Had they had slugs in their 12ga, they could have ended the encounter as well. The body armour may have stopped the 12ga slug (doubt it) but the person wouldn't be getting up soon even if it did.
On top of all that, the complete lack of preparedness (not a long gun among them), 30 to 40 police and not one of them with a rifle! Any rifleman could have ended that standoff with two shots from a relatively safe distance.
When the boys in blue with the training and the M4's and M16's finally show up, they pull up to point blank range on one BG, put a truck between themselves and the BG and procede to waste several hundred rounds shooting up the truck, the BG's car, and the surrounding neighborhood! Had they stood off 50 to 100yds, just down the street, took up positions to put the BG in a crossfire he'd have assumed room temperature in about 20 shots (based on normal police accuracys).
If I were an LAPD officer, I would not want that film blasted over the airwaves too much. It makes them look like complete idiots. If part of your job involves being able to shoot and shoot well then you'd better know how to do it in a combat situation. This is a pitiful attempt by the LiberMedia to poison the pool and try to get the "assault" weapons ban renewed.
The whole movie really showed how unprepared the city police were to handle anything other than a routine traffic stop.
