1. 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.

2. Laws can differ greatly from state-to-state. This is especially true where firearms are concerned and the legal use of force.

3. No in-depth details regarding your actions during a self-defense shooting should be given to law enforcement. Only discuss the actions of the person or persons that attacked you.

4. Minnesota statute 609.065 specifically covers the justifiable taking of human life.

5. Regarding the color codes of awareness, when outside the home, you should be at condition yellow (aware of your surroundings)

6. If there are witnesses to your self-defense incident, you should ask then if they are injured and ask everyone to call 911 to make a statement as to what they heard and saw. You should also call 911 yourself.

7. In the state of Minnesota, the shooting qualification to get your permit to carry a firearm, typically consists of firing 30 to 50 rounds of ammunition at two different distances into two targets.

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

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

10. A good quality belt and holster is ideally required to properly support and retain a firearm.

11. For a self-defense shooting, the preferred aiming point is the largest center of exposed mass which in many cases is the center chest.

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

13. Opportunity to cause great bodily harm or death nearly always exists with firearms.

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

15. In order to use deadly force against another, the attacker must truly have the ability to kill or cause great bodily harm. This "ability” may come in the form of having a dangerous or deadly weapon or a disparity of force exists between the victim and the attacker. Select all the items below that represent a "disparity of force".

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