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

2. In the State of Minnesota, your Permit to Carry information is available in the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) database e.g. part of your driver license information or vehicle registration information.

3. In the state of Minnesota, the permit-to-carry class is not the place to learn how to shoot.

4. As a very general rule, no one is obligated to speak to the police, but even non-verbal communication can, in some situations, be incriminating.

5. You should not approach the person you have just shot because this person may still be dangerous and faking injury to gain the upper hand.

6. If you are being questioned by law enforcement, you are probably a suspect in a crime or the officer is attempting to discern as to whether or not a crime has been committed.

7. In the State of Minnesota, you may carry concealed or carry openly as long as you have been trained and the sheriff has issued you a permit to carry a firearm.

8. Most, if not all states provide some means to allow private citizens to carry a loaded firearm on their person and in public (outside their home) for personal defense.

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

10. 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.

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. When making a claim of self-defense, you have to admit that you did in fact shoot your attacker.

13. Regarding the color codes of awareness, if you are at condition red, there is a greater than 50% certainty that your life is in danger.

14. Police are not legally liable for failing to protect individual citizens, only the community at large.

15. Self-defense is not an affirmative defense.

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