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And we continue with our American stories.

Here to tell another great American story is our regular contributor, Ashley Lubinsky.

Ashley is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms, the former curator in

charge of the Cody Firearms Museum, and is the co-founder of the University of Wyoming

College of Laws Firearms Research Center. Here's Ashley.

One of the most infamous bank robberies in American history occurred on February 28th of

1997. And at 10.01 a.m., two armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department engaged in a shootout

where quite literally willpower won out over firepower.

The North Hollywood shootout is a really interesting case study in a transition of how law enforcement

supplies their officers and how they engage in crime.

So on February 28th at 9.17 a.m., armed with automatic and semi-automatic weapons, and so automatic, just for

anyone who's not aware, means that every time you press the trigger,

the firearm continuously fires until you either release the trigger,

the firearm malfunctions, or you run out of ammunition.

And a semi-automatic firearm means that every time you press the trigger,

it fires one round. So these bank robbers had

automatic and semi-automatic firearms. They had 3,000 rounds of ammunition and full body armor with

them. And their names were Larry Phillips Jr. and a Romanian immigrant, Emil Matasarano. And they

entered the Bank of America in North Hollywood, California.

Now prior to entering, this is kind of a random aside, but the parent taken Fina Barbidal,

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