OK, I am finally convinced. I watched "44 Minutes" and apparantly NOTHING can stand up to a AK-47.
According to the movie, they are plentiful and easily obtained in Kalifornia. They shoot 1,000s of rounds without having to be reloaded. Are easily converted to full auto by any moron. They shoot grapefruit sized holes in anything and everything except ATMs. They can be accurately fired from the hip so specific shooting skills become unecessary. And if you add flash hiders, folding stocks or bayo lugs they become even more deadly.
This is further reinforced by Diane Feinstein who constantly points out that these guns are "everywhere on the street" and Kali legislators are doing all they can to round up what must be millions of them all over the place.
The LAPD must, by this time, have enough of these miracle guns in inventory from seizures that they could issue one to every single officer on the force. Rather than destroy them at tax payer expense, they could simply be issued for free.
With the AK47 Super Gun in every squad car crime in LA would cease to exist virtually overnight. All further confiscated AK47s could be delivered to other beleagured departments and soon the entire state of Kalifornia would be crime free.
The very next time on of the bank robbers or gang members tries to commit a crime with a AK47, any rookie could simply employ their own Russian Uber Gun and have incredible, destructive, overwhelming firepower at his disposal. With 2 or more cops on the scene with these fantastic marvals that defy all known barriers of current ballistics no criminal stands a chance.
Imagine the money, not to mention the lives, that could be saved by issuing a weapon that is so simple, effective and requires virtually no training to employ with incredible results that no other firearm can possibly hope to match.