Most of us who carry a firearm for self-defense will never have to use it. For one man in Mesquite, Texas, however, defensive gun use is becoming a habit.
For the third time in the past five years, armed robbers struck the Cash for Gold shop in Mesquite, Texas this week. The store’s owner, who spoke to FOX 4 News in Dallas/Fort Worth, says each and every time he’s been able to fend them off.
“It’s a quick 3 seconds. No time to think, it’s all reaction,” said Tien, the store owner who asked we only reveal his first name for his safety.
The owner’s quick reaction might have just saved his life.
Surveillance video from last Thursday at the Cash4Gold on Town East Boulevard in Mesquite shows the intense confrontation.
Tien is in the back of the store when two masked and hooded men come inside. One pulls out a gun and a shootout begins.
“Everything was slow motion to me. I saw the mask, I saw the hoodie, I saw the gun come out,” he said.
Once he saw the gun, Tien didn’t wait to be shot at first. He drew his own gun and fired at the armed robber, who shot back at least three times before fleeing the store with his accomplice.
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