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

2. 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.

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

4. The WEB site Handgunlaw.us can be used to find legal information related to firearms state-by-state but the information should always be cross-checked and verified on the state specific WEB site.

5. There are two types of handguns: Revolvers and short barrel rifles.

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







7. Regarding the color codes of awareness, condition black means that the lethal assault is underway and someone is trying to kill you.

8. 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.

9. Modern revolvers will typically hold between five (5) and six (6) rounds in the cylinder. Depending on caliber, a revolver may hold as many as seven (7) rounds, e.g., some .22 caliber revolvers.

10. When selecting a firearm, size, weight and caliber are considerations to keep in mind.

11. Generally, the best place to find and research firearm related products and accessories is on the Internet e.g. Google

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. In self-defense training, you are taught to shoot with intent to kill.

15. 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.

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