Minnesota Permit Course - $100 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). Your eligibility for other permits can extend your carry authority up to 35 states (updated January '08). Click on Misc. to the left for specific information on permits available from this class. 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. Snack and soda vending is available, bring dollar bills. 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 at the range if you do not have your own. Click on link, below, to register for a class. 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. The NET difference in your cost is only +$15.25 (MN Course + MN Permit Fee versus MN Course + UT Course + UT Permit Fee). If MN residents also apply for the MN Permit, they only gain two states. See our Utah Permit Classes 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 at no charge or bring your own. The range rents handguns for $15 and ammunition is available for purchase. You will need 30 rounds for the test. We strongly recommend that you wear a baseball cap on the range. We have cut through the BS and condensed this course down to an intense four hours. 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. You can sign up for longer courses and you can pay more, but you will not get more value. We do occasionally run long if a large class and/or questions are heavy. 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." Close this browser window when done.