1. After defending yourself with a firearm outside your home, select the option(s) that you should NOT do or say when the police arrive.

2. The element of "Opportunity" represents the attackers range to use their "ability" to injure you. Opportunity is often discussed using the Tueller Drill.

3. For self-defense ammunition, only buy high quality name brand cartridges. Most often, personal-defense ammunition comes in some variation of a hollow-point bullet.

4. No matter what your level of training or how capable you believe yourself to be in handling stressful situations, you will experience, to a greater or lesser degree, a number of involuntary physiological changes during a serious defensive situation.

5. The Glock 19 has no exposed hammer. This gun uses an internal striker.

6. Depending on your jurisdiction, there are up to five elements of self-defense law:

  1. Avoidance - Escape if you can
  2. Innocence - Don't start or provoke the fight
  3. Imminence - The attack has started or is about to begin immediately (AOJ-P analysis)
  4. Proportionality - Equal force (you cannot use deadly force against a non-deadly threat)
  5. Reasonableness - You made good decisions under the circumstances

If a prosecutor can disprove any of the five elements, your self-defense justification collapses.

7. Current laws (criminal or civil) shield Good Samaritans.

8. A claim of self-defense requires that you be an innocent party and a reluctant participant in the altercation.

9. Beyond a reasonable doubt would suggest 75% to 99% certainty.

10. A .44 caliber round is generally considered the minimum for a self-defense round.

11. Never surrender your firearm to anyone other than a uniformed police officer or security guard.

12. Patches, cleaning rod, soft cloth, cleaning rod attachments, small brush, bore cleaner, bore brush and gun oil are not examples of the items used to clean a firearm.

13. Using excessive force to defend yourself could result in criminal charges.

14. Which Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, "No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."

15. Hollow-point bullets are designed to expand when they enter the body.

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