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Hi
there. I'm Joel Rosenberg, the man who quite literally wrote the book on carrying a handgun
in Minnesota. I tend to, well, get around a bit on issues around firearms,
training to carry such in Minnesota and elsewhere, and various other matters
around civil liberties.
I was on the
NARN radio show with Mitch Berg again, some months back, and it
occured to me, not for the first time, that a lot of this stuff is in different
places, and it's not terribly well linked together.
Hence this page, which is a portal to various other places; click here
to bookmark this page, if you'd like.
Yes, the picture at the immediate right, above is me, and yes, if you cover it
from the upper lip down, I appear to have a distinct resemblance to Dennis
Franz. The gun was a birthday gift from a bunch of friends on the Forum; I like
it a lot.
To belabor the obvious: yes, I'm Jewish; yup, I own a gun. Maybe several; who
knows? Also: yup, I do have a sense of humor, although I take the whole carry
permit training and civil rights stuff very seriously.
Thanks for stopping by. You can click on any of the links, below. Every picture tells a st — err, has a link of some sort, related to the text. Click on the graphic, and you'll go to the obvious place. And there might just be some other stuff about.
You can email me at any of a number of email addresses, including this one, if you'd like.
Carry Permit Training
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Or, if you'd prefer to do it over the phone, you can call me at 612.501.8229. I think I do a pretty good job. A fair number of folks agree. Here's the calendar: In addition to the five-year carry permits, Minnesota law allows any sheriff to issue a one-time, 30-day emergency permit to anybody who the sheriff decides has an urgent personal safety need — a stalker, say, or an abusive spouse. That gives somebody in that situation thirty days to arrange for and take a carry class, and get a normal, five-year permit. Like many instructors, I'll arrange for anybody with an emergency permit to take my class at no charge, although I think I may have been the first to make that offer — more details here. |
HR218 Training |
HR218,
 "the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act," lets retired
cops with enough years in continue to "carry
on the badge" even after they've pulled the pin . . . if
they take a class, once per year, from a qualified instructor. I'm not
now and never have been a cop (not that there's anything wrong
with that, mind . . .) but I am a qualified instructor. I do an annual class for the retired folks from one local department in late summer; LEOs retired from other agencies can attend, with advance permission. It's also possible to do HR218 qualification as part of TCCarry with or without prearrangement. For more details, feel free to call or email. |
Blog |
 The
Twin Cities Carry Journal
is a place to read about and maybe discuss issues and news around
firearms training and advocacy in and around Minnesota. There may even be those who say it's the place, and I wouldn't be so impolite as to disagree. But while comments are welcome, in general, I've little patience for fools and scammers, and would prefer that they go elsewhere. As the blog owner, I get my preference. Heck, I've even been known to send one fellow's links to my stuff to here, just for the mental image... For those who prefer something a bit more interactive, there's
Rothman's Carry Forum, where I've
been known to participate. |
Activism List |
 I
run it. You can sign up here, if you'd like. If
you don't, don't complain to me if you don't hear in advance the next
time that there's something urgent to do up at the legislature around
your rights involving self-defense in Minnesota. You won't get any spam from me, and if for some reason you want to remove yourself from the list, you can do it with a mouse-click. We have a lot of fun. |
 You
can follow me on
Twitter, if you like. I'm @joelrosenberg, strangely enough. Twitter
can be anything from dull to fascinating. Depends on whose short
messages you watch. Me, I "follow" interesting people, by and large,
and try to keep up. On a good day, I do.
You can search the my twitter feed by clicking here, and substituting your choice of search term
for the sample; your query will open in a new window. |
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More Blogging |
 In
addition to the above, I blog, from time to time, at Windypundit and TrueNorth, with a very rare,
occasional guest spot (I think I'm up to twice, but I'm kind of proud
of being included, so I'll brag, just a little) at Scott Greenfield's
superb legal blog, Simple
Justice, where I'm a frequent commentator, usually commenting as "Jdog". I'm particularly interested in issues around bureaucratic arrogance and corruption, and find some connections between the two. Then again, who doesn't? |
Parody |
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News |
I have, upon rare occasion, been involved in real live news stories.
Sometimes, like the time I displayed my utter lack of fashion sense for
the convenience of the nice folks at the AP, it's been fun.
Other times it hasn't been all that much fun.
When I am, you can find those here. |
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