Christopher Dean "Badness" Binse was 24 when a Victorian judge told him to stop robbing banks and stay out of jail.
But 21 years later, the career criminal is back behind bars after stealing $235,000 from a Melbourne hotel and shooting at police in a 44-hour siege.
His most recent convictions are the latest chapter in a criminal history that has led to Binse spending more than half his 45 years in jail.
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Terry Forrest said on Friday that Binse's prospects for rehabilitation were poor.
"Your prior record and the gravity of your current offending necessarily leads me to conclude that the community needs to be protected from you," he said.
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"There is obviously a powerful need to deter you from reoffending."
He sentenced the Keilor East man to 18 years and two months in jail, with a non-parole period of 14 years and two months.
Justice Forrest quoted former Victorian County Court judge Leo Lazarus, who in sentencing Binse in 1993 said his offending was "about as bad as bank robberies can be".
Binse threatened two armed guards with a sawn-off shotgun during the armed robbery in March 2012.
He also pulled a gun on plainclothes police officers he thought were assassins sent to kill him, before escaping through a La Porchetta restaurant.
When police tracked him to his home in May 2012, he fired at them sporadically over 44 hours before teargas ended the siege.
Justice Forrest said Binse's armed robbery and police siege had put lives in danger.
"When such crimes are committed, they cause terror to those immediately involved and apprehension in the wider community," Justice Forrest said.
"You fired at or near police officers who were simply doing their job."
The 45-year-old pleaded guilty to charges including armed robbery and possessing guns.
He had also been charged with making a threat to kill police who confronted him in the restaurant, but was acquitted in a February trial.
When police searched his storage unit after he was arrested in May 2012, they found an arsenal of weapons, including a 1928 "Tommy gun" sub-machinegun.
Binse told police he had the guns because he feared for his life after a prisoner, who cannot be named, threatened to kill him.
