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You'd have a tough time selling this situation as self-defense I'm afraid.
First off, your friend waws inside a club. A legal place of business. Presumably the club has employees, phones and these type of things. Your friend knew what the two guys meant when they asked him to step outside, and he went ahead and did that of his own free will.
Secondly, as already mentioned, he was able to remove himself from the situation to his vehicle and then chose to RETURN with a weapon.
There were at least two opportunities for your friend to avoid the whole situation. From a prosecutors point of view, I think you'd have some serious problems. Remove the personal connection and look at the situation objectively:
Your friend, while drinking at a club, accepted the invitation to step outside, got in a fight and lost. He then gets a weapon from his vehicle and returns to the scene.
Does that sound like defense to you? If he had of pulled that trigger, he might well be facing a manslaughter charge. We he have been convicted? Who knows.
I think the best argument you can make to or for your friend is that if he's going to go out drinking, maybe he should leave the guns at home period.
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