Police shot depressed Reece Theison with a rubber bullet after he told them he wanted to be hurt in a terrifying siege.
Police thought the Hucknall 20-year-old had a handgun when they shot him with a baton round inside Spot On Snooker Club, Vine Terrace, Hucknall.
His capture ended the ten-hour siege on Thursday, March 13.
Unknown to Theison two female club workers cowered inside a small office for six and half hours while he was drinking, demanding cigarettes and damaging fixtures and fittings. They called the police.
Theison said "I want to get hurt" and was shot and arrested, complaining to one officer: "Why didn't you shoot me with a real gun?"
At Nottingham Crown Court, Theison admitted having an imitation gas-powered air pistol in the style of a Smith and Wesson revolver. He was also charged with criminal damage and stealing alcohol and food.
Today Theison got five years' youth custody for the gun offence and six months concurrently on the other charges.
Judge Stuart Rafferty imposed a restraining order to protect the two women.
And he told Theison, 20, of no fixed address, he was a disturbed young man.
"Although you are disturbed, you have been examined by a consultant forensic psychiatrist, who reports you are not suffering from a mental illness in a recognisable sense that would require you to be treated in a mental hospital and, more importantly, on the day you did what you did you knew precisely what you were doing.
"Those poor ladies who had just gone to work for an ordinary day had no idea what was about to happen."
In mitigation, James Beck said: "This isn't somebody who thought through what he was going to do or the consequences for those involved."
Kerry Moran, one of the women holed up in the building, said afterwards: "That night is all a bit of a blur. There were so many thoughts going through my mind. Why was he here? What did he want? What was he going to do?
"The longer we were there the more I worried he'd start wandering around and eventually find us. Then what?
"I'm glad Theison has been given a jail term. He obviously needs help. I just hope he gets it."
Detective Inspector Rich Monk said: "It was gut instinct that led to the staff member calling us. She was right to trust it. Theison was carrying a gun that day and was intent on causing trouble.
"He knew the weapon was a replica but the officers who had it pointed at them didn't know that and neither did those women cowering for their lives. We had to act on those assumptions and do all we could to ensure their safety, as well as the safety of nearby residents, our own officers and the gunman himself.
"It was an incredibly sensitive balancing act between dealing with a potentially violent man and making sure those women remained undiscovered and safe."
