Minnesota Permit Course

Includes textbook, all course materials, range fee, target and certificate

If you have some handgun experience (safe handling and turkey platter accuracy at 20 feet), this course will qualify you for the Minnesota Permit To Carry a Pistol as well as resident or non-resident permits in almost two dozen other states. If you have little handgun experience, we suggest taking our Handgun Basics Course first.

Seventeen states honor the resident MN Permit (fifteen for non-residents). If you also take our Utah Supplement Course, you will be eligible for other permits that can extend your carry authority up to 35 states (updated December ‘09). Click on the Reciprocity button from our main web site for permit eligibility.

You must be legally eligible to possess a firearm. Please click HERE for a description of disqualifying criteria.

What you will learn:

  • Conflict Avoidance
  • Deadly Force Law
  • Aftermath of Deadly Force
  • Everyday Police Encounters
  • Choosing a handgun for carry
  • Mechanics and Legalities of everyday carry
  • Out of State travel
  • Safety, Proper Handling and Storage
  • Shooting Qualification
  • Application and Appeal Process

The course takes about 4 hours in the classroom and 15 minutes on the range. Bring your driver's license or passport and checkbook. Coffee, snacks, soda and bottled water is available. This course deals with home defense as well, so mature and responsible children (age 12+) are welcome to register if accompanied by a paid legal guardian. Minors will not be eligible for permits before their certificate expires unless they are at least 20. Rental firearms and ammunition are available.

Consider also taking our Utah Supplement Course (approx. 90 min.) immediately following the MN Course. The UT permit is a better value than a MN Permit. All states that honor the MN non-resident permit also honor the UT non-resident permit, plus fourteen more. If MN residents also apply for the MN Permit, they gain two states. See our Reciprocity page for details.

The range fee is included in the course fee. If you wish to practice after the live fire qualification, you are welcome to stay at no additional charge until the range closes. The range provides eye and ear protection for $1 each, bring your own or we have economical alternatives available for purchase. We strongly recommend that you wear a baseball cap on the range to protect from hot ejected brass.

We have cut through the BS and condensed this course down to an intense four hours. There are less expensive courses, but we question whether the properly prepare their students. There are longer courses and courses that are more expensive. They feature "war stories", advanced tactics, extraneous detail and other fill that are not necessary to qualify for a carry permit. We include just enough illustrations to make the points clear. Detailing the personal accomplishments of our instructors will not qualify you for your permit or save you in a deadly encounter.

This course meets or exceeds the training required by Minnesota statute. MN Sheriffs are required to accept our certificate

The human race has not changed over the millennia. There are still good people and bad people, kind people and cruel people. There are still predators who will prey on people they believe are too weak to defend themselves. There is a lot more to self-defense than I have space to talk about, so I will close with a story from the 1800s: A man on his way to Texas asked an Arkansas storeowner if he thought he would need a gun. "Well," the storeowner said, "maybe you will and maybe you won't, but if you do, you'll need it in a hurry."

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