The speaker says firearms were not very significant battlefield assets after Indigenous people overcame their shock value, given the firearms’ slow reloading times.

“He enumerates in the title those critical advantages that the Spaniards had. Guns in reality weren't so significant. Once the Native people's got over the shock value they have”

“They appreciated given the very slow reloading times involved in firearms of that time that they weren't so significant as assets on the battlefield.”