Armed Robbery Fail

At around teatime on 3rd February 1990, David Zaback strolled into a crowded shop in Washington State in the North-West of the United States. He pulled out a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol, announced that this was a robbery and that he’d shoot dead anybody who didn’t put their hands on the counter and keep them there.
His instructions were disregarded. Several of the customers, a shop assistant and a policeman immediately drew guns and invited him to make their day -- which he promptly did.
The mistake he made, as he would have had cause to reflect afterwards had he not been lying dead with three bullets in the chest and one in his arm, was that the shop he chose to try and rob was called “H & J Leather and Firearms Limited”. The clue was in the name.
Actually, that wasn’t his only mistake. His other mistake was deciding to rob the shop while Timothy Lally, a policeman with 18 years experience on the force, was leaning up against the counter having a coffee and shooting the breeze with owner of the gun-shop. Mr Lally was in uniform at the time.
“The surprising thing,” Police Captain Don Persson told reporters afterwards, “is that the man had to walk right past a marked police car to get in the front door.”