Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "North Hollywood shootout" in English language version.
Indeed, the AR-15 is also inextricably linked to tragedy. Mass shootings are central to the gun's narrative, and its popularity. Police departments stocked up on them after a string of massacres in the 1990s ... in 1997, an AR-15, among other semiautomatic military-style rifles, was used in the North Hollywood shootout, a daytime robbery in California that devolved into a nearly hourlong firefight and was televised live across the country. During the gun battle, police officers were forced to run to a local gun store and take rifles to try to contend with the robbers' firepower and body armor.
Dressed in black body armor and toting automatic weapons, two bandits shot up a North Hollywood bank this morning, then were cut down outside by police officers in a running fire-fight whose transfixing horror was caught live, for all the city to watch, by helicopter news cameras.
The legal and cultural fallout of the crime had to do with just how much firepower the cops should be carrying, if outlaws find it so easy to purchase AK-47s at gun shows.
Officers in Los Angeles have been equipped with the weapons even longer, soon after a 1997 gunfight outside a bank where police faced a man armed with an AK-47. Officers in that situation had to go to a nearby gun store to get high-velocity weapons.
The legal and cultural fallout of the crime had to do with just how much firepower the cops should be carrying, if outlaws find it so easy to purchase AK-47s at gun shows.
Airship, suspect vehicle, do not stop it. They've got automatic weapons, there's nothing we have that can stop them.
Indeed, the AR-15 is also inextricably linked to tragedy. Mass shootings are central to the gun's narrative, and its popularity. Police departments stocked up on them after a string of massacres in the 1990s ... in 1997, an AR-15, among other semiautomatic military-style rifles, was used in the North Hollywood shootout, a daytime robbery in California that devolved into a nearly hourlong firefight and was televised live across the country. During the gun battle, police officers were forced to run to a local gun store and take rifles to try to contend with the robbers' firepower and body armor.
Officers in Los Angeles have been equipped with the weapons even longer, soon after a 1997 gunfight outside a bank where police faced a man armed with an AK-47. Officers in that situation had to go to a nearby gun store to get high-velocity weapons.
Dressed in black body armor and toting automatic weapons, two bandits shot up a North Hollywood bank this morning, then were cut down outside by police officers in a running fire-fight whose transfixing horror was caught live, for all the city to watch, by helicopter news cameras.
Airship, suspect vehicle, do not stop it. They've got automatic weapons, there's nothing we have that can stop them.
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