Had the robber of AMS Liquor World in Perry Hall known his target better, he may have thought twice about pulling a knife on the store’s longtime owner.

The owner, a man in his 60s who requested not to be identified, is a Vietnam War veteran who sports an ever-present parrot on his shoulder and who displays a cardboard cutout of cowboy-era Clint Eastwood near the front of the store.

And for the 20 years since it opened, the owner has kept a handgun in the store. But Saturday afternoon was the first time he ever fired it. . .