With a few emails before hand...I was a bad student , and kind of lazy , I let my certificate of having taken the course expire, Sheriff Cook asked for some type of documentation of marksmanship training, and a scored live fire event. I fired off two emails, had doc's he was looking for from our personal weapons qualification at Camp Ripley with our very, very EBR's, you know the ones that will fire 3 rounds for one trigger pull, and have the option to mount grenade launchers and bayonets and all sorts of lasers and lights! First time ever shooting expert on the pop up range! Five days later, and $100 lighter I had the hard card in my hand.

Richard Cook is an excellent man. From what I hear his office has been routinely turning permits around in a matter of days. He carries on a tradition of support for individual gun rights started by Dave Schweisthal, his predecessor.