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It was supposed to be an easy bank job. Instead, the bandits faced a 'murderous hail of lead'

SHAKOPEE, Minn. — It was all supposed to be so easy. It was 10 a.m. on Dec. 9, 1929, amid the start of what would become the Great Depression. The three men were young, heavily armed, and only there for the loot — stacks of cash inside the First National Bank in Shakopee, Minnesota. But nearby and out of sight, a posse of armed men lay in wait. They were led by Charles Brown, head of the Minnesota Bankers' Protective Association, and Scott Count…

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It was supposed to be an easy bank job. Instead, the bandits faced a 'murderous hail of lead'

Bullets and 'machine gun psychology' became the much-heralded way to fight a flood of bank robbers in Minnesota and the Dakotas in the late 1920s and early 1930s

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