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Robbery. 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 ...
Bushmaster XM-15. The Bushmaster XM-15 series (or XM15[3]) is a line of AR-15 style semi-automatic rifles and carbines manufactured by Bushmaster Firearms International, LLC. [2] Variants include the Bushmaster M4-type Carbine, Patrolman series, QRC series, Bushmaster XM15-E2S, and the Carbon 15 line. [2][5]
Mass shooting at a drug house. 1986 FBI Miami shootout. Dade County. April 11, 1986. 4. 5. Shootout between robbers and FBI agents. 1987 Palm Bay shooting. Palm Bay.
Release. June 5, 2003. (2003-06-05) 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out is a 2003 American crime action docudrama television film directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Tim Metcalfe. The film stars Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Mario Van Peebles, Andrew Bryniarski, and Oleg Taktarov. It is a semi-fictional dramatization of the 1997 ...
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.
Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the largest sports retailers in the US, will stop selling assault-style weapons and will require gun buyers to be at least 21 years old, the company's CEO Ed Stack ...
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.
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]