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

2. Reciprocity is what you have when states do not honor each others permit to carry a firearm.

3. According to the NRA, firearms and ammunition should be store separately and firearms should always be stored unloaded.

4. With single action firearms, the trigger mechanism performs only one function, to release the hammer or striker.

5. In a 2006 CNN report, Minneapolis ranked in the top 25 most dangerous cities in the US.

6. If you own firearms, you should have a complete understanding of the laws in your home state, specifically related to possession, storage, transportation and using a firearm for self defense.

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

8. Defensive accuracy is typically defined as being able to consistently fire a predetermined number of rounds of ammunition into a target the size of a paper plate from a distance of 61 feet.

9. Properly documenting your training (formal and informal) is important so that you can prove in court that you had specific knowledge at the time of the shooting.

10. 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.

11. Minnesota statute 347.17 states, "Any person may kill any dog that the person knows is affected with the disease known as hydrophobia, or that may suddenly attack while the person is peacefully walking or riding and while being out of the enclosure of its owner or keeper, and may kill any dog found killing, wounding, or worrying any horses, cattle, sheep, lambs, or other domestic animals." - Statute 347.17 is an example of a statute possibly needing to be researched in order to find out how the courts actually interpret this statute.

12. Reasonable force can best be described as the level of force proportionate to the level of unlawful force about to be utilized against the victim.

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







14. In the state of Minnesota, statute 609.06 authorizes a private citizen the right to use reasonable force toward another in self-defense.

15. Travelers need to know the rules of the road before heading to another state with firearms.

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