Do assault weapons pose a threat to law enforcement?

Do assault weapons pose a threat to law enforcement?

Paul Helmke (President, The Brady Campaign) gives expert video advice on: How dangerous are assault weapons?; What is a semi-automatic assault weapon?; What's the difference between an assault weapon and a semi-automatic firearm? and more...

When I talk to law enforcement, when others talk to law enforcement, they say assault weapons do pose a real threat to them. Again, assault weapons are semi-automatics that are designed for aggressive use for shooting and killing people. They have a spray pattern, they can get a lot of bullets in a quick period of time over a wide area, and that's exactly what a police officer does not want to see when he or she is responding to a crime, responding to a bank robbery, responding to an incident.