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Two types of non-Russian AKMS copies (referred to in the show incorrectly as "AK-47s") are used by the 'High Incident Bandits' - Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. (Andrew Bryniarski) and Emil Matasareanu (Oleg Taktarov). The first type used by the robbers is the Romanian-manufactured AIMS, distinguished by its side-folding skeleton stock and vertical foregrip integrated into the handguard. This is the type used by both men when they first enter the bank and for nearly all of the gun battle. For much of the movie, the men use 75-round drum magazines when they engage the LAPD in the massive 44-minute shootout (though Matasareanu's AK has a 30-round box magazine when he first enters the bank).
Later, Phillips reaches into the trunk of the getaway car and grabs a Hungarian AK-63E under-folder (in the United States, the gun was sold in semi-auto-only form as the SA-85M), also fitted with a 75-round drum magazine. He uses this weapon until it jams (in the actual incident it was a "stove-pipe" jam, due to a short-stroke action cycle caused by a faulty/underfilled cartridge powder load), before discarding it when his thumb is shot off (not allowing him to fix the jam).
An H&K HK91A3 (converted to fully-automatic) is used briefly by Phillips (Andrew Bryniarski) during the battle; fitted with a 30-round magazine. Due to continuity error, however, it is also seen with a 20-round magazine in a few shots.
Near the final battle, Matasareanu (Oleg Taktarov) arms himself with what appears to be a custom M16 assault rifle, assembled from components of many weapons in the M16 family. The weapon has an M16 A2-style receiver and heavy barrel (Note that the weapon in the film has a full-length barrel, whereas the firearm used during the actual incident has a shortened barrel), with a collapsible CAR-15/M4-style stock and the triangular forearm of an M16A1. The weapon is also fitted with a 100-round Beta C magazine.
One of the SWAT officers fires the CAR-15. The gunshop owner briefly shows one of these rifles to the LAPD officers when they come in desperate for better firepower. Being that it is a California gun store, chances are that it's a CAR-15 clone, made by one of the many AR rifle manufacturers that were California 'legal' in the 1990s.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingCommercial Civilian CAR-15 Rifle with total barrel length of 16" with a fake XM177 Flash hider/sound suppressor welded onto the barrel - 5.56x45mm. These are strictly civilian rifles from the 1980s-1990s that try to emulate the styling of the XM177 rifles.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSWAT Officer Steve Gomez assumes a prone position to fire his CAR-15. He had just come off a run when the call came up, and did not have time to change out of his running shorts.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSWAT Officer Steve Gomez fires his CAR-15 from the LAPD car driven by Donnie Anderson.
The gunshop shows several of these rifles to members of the LAPD when they come in the store desperate for better firepower, they then leave with multiple rifles in the trunk of their car. Since this takes place in California in the mid 1990s, no gun shop would sell any rifle that was marked Colt AR-15 or Colt CAR-15 since they were banned 'by name' by the California "Roberti-Roos Assault Weapon Ban of 1989". However any aftermarket/third party gun or the Colt Sporters were okay since they didn't say "AR-15". The Colt Sporter II and other AR-15 style rifles would still eventually be banned by another California bill in 1999. These weapons were never used because by the time the patrol officers with the rifles arrived at the scene, SWAT officers had already neutralized the second suspect.
Two of the LAPD SWAT officers carry M16A2 assault rifles during the shootout. These weapons were deployed with the SWAT officers when they received the call and were not among the rifles that the patrol officers procured from the B&B gun store. They were referred to as the .223 by SWAT Officer Donnie Anderson (Ron Livingston).
Seen in the hands of several SWAT officers in an early scene including Officer Donnie Anderson (Ron Livingston). When the call about the shootout was received, Donnie instructed the other SWAT officers to leave their MP5s in the trunk due to the fact that the 9mm ammunition used by the MP5s would probably not be able to penetrate the suspects' multiple layers of body armor.
The gunshop owner shows the LAPD officers that come into the store a Remington 700PSS rifle and calls it "the best sniper rifle made". Another Remington 700PSS could be seen at the police armory.
The Beretta 92FS was the primary sidearm of the LAPD during the time of the North Hollywood shootout. It is seen being fired LAPD Officers Harris (Ray Baker), Bobby Martinez (Douglas Spain), Gomez (Alex Meneses), Henry Jones (Mario Van Peebles), and numerous other officers.
After his AKMS jams, Phillips (Andrew Bryniarski) pulls this pistol from a holster in his final moments and fires a few shots at the police before committing suicide with it. He is simultaneously shot in the spine by Detective Frank McGregor (Michael Madsen).
Detective Frank McGregor (Michael Madsen) Carries a 4" Barreled Smith & Wesson Model 686 as his sidearm and uses it to shoot at the bankrobbers on multiple occasions during the shoot-out. At one point firing at one and possibly killing him.
Donnie Anderson (Ron Livingston) finds a custom M1911 in a box of his late father's things. (This 1911 was custom built by Master Pistolsmith Jim Hoag of Canoga Park CA)
The standard shotgun of LAPD patrol officers at the time. Several LAPD officers are armed with these 12 Gauge pump-action shotguns, loaded with 00 buckshot.
