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The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...
The 1997 North Hollywood shootout had a profound effect on law enforcement agencies. Local patrol officers at the time were typically armed with their standard issue 9×19mm pistols or .38 Special revolvers, while some had a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun available in their cars.
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and both SWAT and patrol officers in North Hollywood on February 28, 1997. It began when responding North Hollywood Division patrol officers engaged Phillips and Mătăsăreanu leaving a ...
A gun battle between a man and LAPD officers in North Hollywood left two people dead, including the gunman, authorities said.
On the morning of February 28, 1997, career criminals Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu attempted to rob a Bank of America branch in North Hollywood using heavy body armor and automatic rifles, but were spotted by a passing Los Angeles Police Department unit as they entered, and only managed to acquire roughly $300,000 as bank policies on stored money had changed. [9]
The rifles were supplied by China, Pakistan and the US who obtained them from third party arms dealers. [16] There is photographic evidence from Soviet/Russian sources where captured Type 56 rifles were utilized by Soviet soldiers in lieu of their standard-issue AKM and AK-74 rifles. Bangladesh Navy sailor fires a Type 56-2 rifle.
An original 1966 model with the push-pin hole in the receiver can sell for around $37,000. These are very scarce because most of them were used as hosts for full-auto conversions prior to the May 1986 machine gun ban, one that was infamously used in the 1997 North Hollywood shootout. A full-automatic converted HK41/HKG3 can sell for over $20,000.
A man who reportedly made violent threats was arrested and investigators found a cache of guns and ammunition in his Hollywood high-rise apartment, where several rifles were pointed at a nearby ...