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

2. You cannot claim self-defense if the shooting was an accident or a mistake.

3. When carrying a firearm and stopped by a law enforcement officer, do not make sudden movements or pull out the firearm to show it to the officer.

4. Self defense law has evolved over hundreds of years and continues to evolve even today

5. Using the Kimber 1911 as an example, this gun is carried safely in a cocked and locked fashion.

6. 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.

7. The Supreme Court has held that police must stop questioning suspects once they assert their right to counsel, but it has also held that a person must affirmatively invoke the right to silence.

8. The final version of the Minnesota Citizens Personal Protection Act was passed in 2005.

9. To "win" at self-defense, the only hurdle you need to clear is being cleared of criminal charges.

10. Select all the general body responses one may experience when in a deadly encounter.







11. Self-defense is not an affirmative defense.

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

13. AOJ-P is short for Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy and Preclusion. If all four elements are satisfied, the use of deadly force is generally authorized. The AOJ-P analysis is used to identify a real threat and imminence of the danger being faced.

14. After notifying a police officer that you are carrying a firearm, if there are specific instructions given by the officer that you do not understand, ask for clarification.

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

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