Reply #10: You're quite right, and the chief is grandstanding.

[benEzra]

The legality and availability of civilian AK lookalikes has not changed one bit compared to 1994-2004; police have been using small-caliber patrol carbines for decades, with a major trend of replacing patrol shotguns with carbines, primarily AR-15 pattern, since the '90s (the Miami department is very late to this party); the Feinstein ban didn't affect ammunition; and rifles aren't commonly misused, MSM hysteria to the contrary.

Chief Timoney in uniform...