The Pistol Under The Bar

A man with an old felony conviction was tending bar when a customer went for him. The customer, who had himself been convicted of murder, stabbed him in the stomach. He reached under the bar for a club and came up with a pistol instead. He fired three shots and the attacker died the next day. He put the gun on the bar at once. Federal law bans a felon from possessing a gun and says nothing about why he held it.