OK, time for you to live up to the same demand as you have been making.
First: you don't have to have a valid driver's license to be issued a CCW in MN. If you believe otherwise, show me the MN statute that says that.
I don't want someone else's opinion: show me the actual MN statute.
You can start here:
https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/bca-divisions/administrative/pages/permit-to-carry-faq.aspx
And the law is here:
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=624.714
If you don't want to bother, I can save you some time. You won't find it.
Read the letter he did indeed need to have either a valid drivers license, a state picture id(and you can’t drive a car with that which he was doing), or a passport.
It was your own source that said so.