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

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GET ALL THE SEMI AUTOS YOU CAN!!! ***?? i thought cops were alowed class 3 no questions asked. me thinks they need the crazy arizona(?) sherif that went and bought a browning m2 for homeland security
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Nope, they have to follow the same rules; however, they are not limited to pre-1986 stuff and they do not have to pay tax on transfer. Sure, the department can buy the cool toys, but cops don't get to take the MP5s home at night.

one of the cops with the revolver finaly pulled off a shot at about 50 ft that my girlfriend coulda managed.....
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Could she do it with someone shooting at her? :p
 
I'm willing to bet that if one of the bank patrons had a CCW, they might have been able to shoot the robbers in the back of the head while they were preoccupied with the police out front.
 
Another big mistake on the accuracy of the movie, is the rescue of the black officer(the most severely injured). He was actually saved when an armored car was driven into the area.

The first gunman, if I recall correctly, killed himself right as an LEO's round entered his neck and severing his spinal cord..., according to everything I have read about the incident.

The movie was pretty much crap... I was pretty disappointed.

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Another big mistake on the accuracy of the movie, is the rescue of the black officer(the most severely injured). He was actually saved when an armored car was driven into the area.
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I am still watching it but if they dont put the OMG thats TAKTAROV!!!!!!! I know that guy. Anyway if they dont do the armored car thing this is just fiction.


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Ah, thats what i meant, i was just really suprised that none of the cops brought ANY artilery with them, you'd think SOMEONE would have showed up with a rifle in the first place. also, way to crush all my ambitions of dodging class 3 laws by becoming a LEO! ;) i also wonder why the cops just drove right head on into the last guy, if they seemingly had "the best sniper rifle in the world", why not just set up a bit further out and use some accurate fire. guess ya wouldn't know without being there, but makes more sense to me than charging a nut head on

as for the girlfriend.... wellllll, i duno about that, but i just too her shooting and i guess i'm really proud of her! :D
 
Question: Why did a California gun store have AR-15's for sale? They have been banned since '89.
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The '89 ban only banned guns by name, so at the time of the shooting, any post-ban that wasn't stamped exactly "Colt AR-15" was ok. In '99 they passed the "now you're really screwed" ban. :(
 
Where can one find and watch the actual footage of the event?
 
The Discovery Channel did way better than this for a lot less money. Documentary versus Mockumentary I guess.

I wouldn't worry about the "national repercussions." If anything, the movie demonstrates that the NFA of '34 doesn't work, let alone the 1994 ban.
 
In all fairness, and unless I have my terminology wrong, that was a Remington model 700 PSS with Leupold something optics, Harris Bipod etc. If that is not a sniper rifle, or at least a rifle commonly used by law enforcement snipers, I don't know what is.
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I was thinking more along the lines of public perception.. You know the old saying "they won't ban your hunting rifle, they'll call it a sniper rifle first" or something of that effect..

Probably making a mountain out of a molehill with my statement.. Must be the paranoia setting in, better get the tinfoil out :D

Leo
 
One of the end of story, on screen, written comments was that since then LAPD Officers on patrol now have "M-16 machine guns" in their cars. It has been a long time since a fully auto capable M-16 has been issued to regular troops much less the LAPD. But it sounds sooooo cool/evil.
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Following the shootout, LAPD purchased surplus US Gov. M16s for their patrol cars. They were converted to semi-auto only, though.
 
They didn't even get the weapons right. One of the scumbags used a converted HK during at least a portion of the real firefight.
 
One scene surprised me. As a couple of units were motoring to the shoot out one ossifer on the horn said the units were not authorized to deploy the MP-5's.

I was under the impression there were no shoulder fired weapons on site until the gun shop opened its inventory.
 
How the actions of 2 could ever be passed off as a reason to infringe on the rights of millions I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND. :fire:

When the hell is the J.P.F.O going to release "Innocents Betrayed"? :confused: It was supposed to be ready last month. Gotta call em. In the meantime....

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BGs did have HK 93 (91?) in the shoot out. Though I haven't seen them use it in the actually news footage, it is shown in the after crime evidence photo. I was amazed by the firepower they had (apparently good taste in guns too (HK 91)), Beta C mag and all.:(

However I found something very ironic. AR15s borrowed by LAPD at the BB gun store (whom were unfairly portraited by the show dispite their part in the heroic effort) was actually BUSHMASTER!!!!!!!

yes, the same evil gun that was used by demented DC sniper recently.

Not many people praised Bushmaster for its use as good guys' gun, except by few Gun publications, but it was severely demonized after the DC sniper incident.

Lesson? Guns are only a tool. BGs makes them bad guns.
 
After blasting several hundred rounds at full auto you would think that the AK47 barrels would have been trashed and melted!

Hollywood!!!!!:cuss:
 
after watching the discovery channels documentary, i was unimpressed by the overly emotional displays by dispatchers and fellow officers. in the documentary the audio playback of the dispatchers revealed they maintained their composure all the way through. they did their job without hesitation.
but in this fabrication put on by FX they are weeping and hysterical.

another thing i didnt like was that the actors did the narratives. i would have liked to see the actual officers involved narrate the scenes.
 
The biggest anti-gun propaganda statement was actually a line by one of the cops, when he goes into the Gunshop and says "I need all the semi-automatics youve got........" :rolleyes: ...Store owner starts grabbing AR15's and one "sniper" rifle, lays them on the counter. The cop's line is "Geezus I can't believe that they let people just buy this stuff!" :fire:

Store owner then says "Well as long as you've got good credit, bla bla bla".....I don't know about you, but the last time I bought a gun a credit check was not needed to see if I was fit to own one :rolleyes:

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45R - you might think, but that's just about exactly what happened. BGs showed up with full-auto AK knockoffs among other things, and blasted away for quite some time. If you haven't seen the raw footage, hunt it down. Thank God they had firepower for which they had no training, or it could've been much, much worse.

I personally expect to see this re-run over and over, until the AWB comes up for a vote.

Did anyone else notice that once SWAT showed up at the end of the movie, their ARs were fired semi-auto only, while the bad guy blasts away with his AR full-auto? Subtle bit of anti, that. Sort of hinting that maybe the SWAT team's ARs were semi-only, in the same vein as everyone at the CP saying "Get all the semi-autos you can find." My understanding of what really happened was that SWAT tore suspect #2's legs up with 3-round bursts from under the cars, but somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

And, BTW, the reference to why the SWAT guys were saying to leave the 9mm MP5s behind is because they're not much good against armored targets, hence "use the two-two-threes."

Kevlarman, please tell me you're joking. Somebody's Smith Airweight or Kahr or the like ain't something I'd take out against two guys with automatic weapons who're standing toe-to-toe with a cadre of LAPD. CCW or not, I'm staying on the floor and hoping for the best until they leave, then I'm locking the door behind them, a la the bank's assistant manager closing the vault door. The LAPD can deal with the body armor better'n I can. :D
 
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