In April 1986 eight agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation engaged serial bank robbers William Russell Matix, and Michael Lee Platt in one of the bloodiest and infamous shootouts in United States history. When the smoke cleared Agents, Jerry Dove and Ben Grogan had been killed as well as both suspects, five other agents were wounded.
This incident is more directly responsible for shaping handgun technology and gunfight tactics over the past three decades, than any other single event. Those in the know have studied the shootout to learn lessons of survival and victory in the modern gunfight.
