"My gun is bigger than yours": Armed robbers surrender to armed Cleveland deli owner

Cleveland.com is reporting that a Cleveland deli owner turned the tables on two armed robbers who he believed were about to murder he and a friend who was helping him run the store.

From the article:

The owner was manning the store about 9:45 p.m. and talking to a friend who was helping him run the shop, police reported. Two masked men burst into the pointing guns and demanded money.

A man walking by the store saw the two masked men enter the store with guns, reports show. He flagged down a passing police car.

Back inside the store, the owner emptied the register of about $300, police said. The robbers grabbed the cash and ran toward the front of the store.

The pair stopped when they saw an officer standing outside, the owner said. They turned around and ran toward the back of the store.

At that point, the report says the owner's friend was able to get a gun from behind the counter and corner the robbers.

As one of the robbers entered the back room, the friend grabbed him slammed him into the wall, police said. The second robber hid in the bathroom.

The friend told police he tried to coax the robber out of the bathroom, saying "my gun is bigger than yours."

The robbers surrendered and begged the man not to shoot him, reports show.

The article goes on to say that the deli owner's friend ordered them to the ground, and handed the owner his gun while he searched the robbers for weapons. He found a gun and a magazine in their pockets.

The friend then called 911, and explained to the dispatcher that they were holding two armed robbers at gunpoint inside the store. He then went outside to talk to officers while the deli owner continued to hold the robbers at gunpoint.

According to the report, the ordered the robbers to crawl out outside, where the suspects, a 19-year-old Parma man and an 18-year-old Cleveland man, were immediately arrested.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Secretary, BFA PAC Vice Chairman, and an NRA-certified firearms instructor. He is the editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, which received the Outdoor Writers of Ohio 2013 Supporting Member Award for Best Website.