Ok, we've re-hashed Newhall and Miami a few times over, and apparently North Hollywood is beaten to glue. Let's discuss the one that got swept under the rug, but deserves a lot more attention: the Union Station Massacre in Kansas City, June 17, 1933. This is the one that the BOI used to sway public and bureaucratic opinion about arming agents, effectively launching Hoover's FBI to usurp elected Sheriffs as the 'highest' armed law-enforcement authority in the nation. There is perhaps even more in the aftermath of this event in the persecution of Pretty Boy Floyd and the rise of the FBI's police powers, but just in the events of June 17th there is plenty to discuss -- from .38 revolvers versus Thompsons to the unique action of an Winchester Model 1897 that was loaded with special steel ball-bearing cartridges.
If you're not familiar with this event, watch out for the "official" version of events that reads like 1930's style government propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_massacre
https://kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/mess-massacre
If you're not familiar with this event, watch out for the "official" version of events that reads like 1930's style government propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_massacre
https://kchistory.org/week-kansas-city-history/mess-massacre