Kansas gun store owner dies after shootout during robbery attempt

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - The owner of a gun store died on Friday in a shootout with four men who were attempting to rob the business in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, police said.
The violence took place at She's A Pistol LLC store. Major Dan Tennis of the Shawnee Police Department said the owners, a husband and wife, opened fire on the four men. Three of the suspects were wounded in the gun battle, police said.
Store owner John Bieker, 44, died after being rushed to a hospital, while Bieker’s wife was punched and injured in the incident, Tennis said.
"There was a big gun battle, lots of shots fired," Tennis said.
Two suspects were taken into custody at the store, while the other two later surrendered to police, authorities said.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri; Editing by Eric Beech and Will Dunham)


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[midnight rambler]

A guy I know who is now retired from being a gun dealer placed a large piece of AR500 steel plate behind the wall behind his counter strictly for such a scenario. Above the plate was a window and it was next to a door. He could quickly retreat to that spot and mount a defense. He was also a Class 3 dealer so it would have been suicide for someone to try to rob him anyway, they would have gotten stitched for sure.

[Ponce]

Very dangerous times for a gun shop owner to work alone with out a "body guard" in the background. To see four guys walk into my gun shop at the same time would make me very suspicious........were they black?......to see them and to press my 911 button
would be one.

V

[midnight rambler]

Very dangerous times for a gun shop owner to work alone with out a "body guard" in the background. To see four guys walk into my gun shop at the same time would make me very suspicious........were they black?......to see them and to press my 911 button
would be one.

V

The Class 3 dealer I'm referring to always had someone there with him, plus there were always on duty cops coming in and out the front and back doors and hanging out in the back shooting the breeze. His store had an extremely heavy steel front door and the windows in front were salvaged from a bank drive-thru. Not only that, the first thing you saw when you walked in the front door was his show piece, a mounted ma deuce pointed in the general direction of the front door - so anyone coming in there for the first time immediately picked up on the general atmosphere of the place*.

*it was fun to watch first-timers walk in the door, they always had the deer in the headlights look and were very soft-spoken and polite

[Twisted Titan]

Im sorry about the loss but the man defended his property from the apes.

They had to be black because not even hardcore tweekers would rob a gun store

Glad he wounded a few and all of them are going to do a long ass stretch and will probally have a few friends wainting on a release date.