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  2. North Hollywood shootout - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Bushmaster XM-15 - Wikipedia

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    XM-15 rifles were also used in the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, [20] the 2018 Nashville Waffle House shooting, [21] and the 2022 Buffalo shooting. [22] An XM15-E2 was captured from Islamic State fighters in Sinjar Mountains by Peshmerga during the Iraqi Civil War. [1]

  4. Type 56 assault rifle - Wikipedia

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    20, 30, or 40-round detachable box magazine. Sights. Adjustable Iron sights. The Type 56 (Chinese: 56式突击步枪; literally; "Assault Rifle, Model of 1956") [12] is a Chinese 7.62×39mm automatic rifle, a licensed derivative of the Soviet-designed AK-47 (specifically Type 3 variant). The Type 56 rifle was adopted by the People's Liberation ...

  5. LAPD Metropolitan Division - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. 44 Minutes (song) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Militarization of police - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Category:Films shot in California - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Gettysburg (1913 film) The Battle of Shaker Heights. Baywatch (film) Bear (2010 film) The Bear (1984 film) The Beast with a Million Eyes. Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time. Beau Geste (1926 film) Beau Sabreur.

  9. Shootout - Wikipedia

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    A still from police body camera footage of a shootout between a suspect and sheriff's deputies in Volusia County, Florida in 2019. A shootout, also called a firefight, gunfight, or gun battle, is an armed confrontation entailing firearms between armed parties using guns, always entailing intense disagreement(s) between the fighting parties.