Applications
for a Minnesota State Permit to Carry a Handgun
or a Minnesota State Permit to Acquire Handguns
are available at the Otter Tail County Sheriff's
Office. (Address and
phone number are on our home page)
The
new statute requires that applications be
made in person at the Sheriff's Office. Please
bring a photo copy of your drivers license
and the original copy of your training certificate,
along with the $50.00 ($100 for out of state)
application fee. Your permit will be processed
and mailed out, usually within 2-3 weeks.
For information on the complete statute log
onto www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/624/714.html
CARRY APPLICATIONS
For your information, please consider that
there are a host of firearm laws that relate
to the issue of handgun possession whether
or not you have a permit to carry.
 http://www.dps.state.mn.us/bca/CJIS/Documents/CarryPermit/PermittoCarry.html
Permit to Purchase
609.06 AUTHORIZED USE OF FORCE.
Reasonable force may be used upon or toward
the person of another without the other's
consent when the following circumstances exist
or the actor reasonably believes them to exist:
(1) when used by a public officer or one assisting
a public officer under the public officer's
direction:
(a) in effecting a lawful arrest; or
(b) in the execution of legal process; or
(c) in enforcing an order of the court; or
(d) in executing any other duty imposed upon
the public officer by law; or
(2) when used by a person not a public officer
in arresting another in the cases and in the
manner provided by law and delivering the
other to an officer competent to receive the
other into custody; or
(3) when used by any person in resisting or
aiding another to resist an offense against
the person; or
(4) when used by any person in lawful possession
of real or personal property, or by another
assisting the person in lawful possession,
in resisting a trespass upon or other unlawful
interference with such property; or
(5) when used by any person to prevent the
escape, or to retake following the escape,
of a person lawfully held on a charge or conviction
of a crime; or
(6) when used by a parent, guardian, teacher
or other lawful custodian of a child or pupil,
in the exercise of lawful authority, to restrain
or correct such child or pupil; or
(7) when used by a school employee or school
bus driver, in the exercise of lawful authority,
to restrain a child or pupil, or to prevent
bodily harm or death to another; or
(8) when used by a common carrier in expelling
a passenger who refuses to obey a lawful requirement
for the conduct of passengers and reasonable
care is exercised with regard to the passenger's
personal safety; or
(9) when used to restrain a mentally ill or
mentally defective person from self-injury
or injury to another or when used by one with
authority to do so to compel compliance with
reasonable requirements for the person's control,
conduct or treatment; or
(10) when used by a public or private institution
providing custody or treatment against one
lawfully committed to it to compel compliance
with reasonable requirements for the control,
conduct or treatment of the committed person.
History: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.06;
1986 c 444; 1993 c 326 art 1 s 4
Statute
609.065 Justifiable Taking of Life
The intentional taking of the life of another
is not authorized by Section 609.06, except
when necessary in resisting or preventing
an offense which the actor reasonably believes
exposes the actor or another to great bodily
harm or death, or preventing the commission
of a felony in the actor's place of abode.
History: 1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.065;
1978 c 736 s 1; 1986 c 444 |
