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.
Twenty-three
states honor the resident MN Permit (twenty-one 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 41 states
(updated July ‘11). 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:
The course
takes about 4 hours in the classroom and 15 minutes on the range. Photo I.D.
required (driver's license, etc.). Complimentary coffee, snacks, soda and
bottled water. 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
The range
fee is included in the course fee. 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
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