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Basic Handgun Class
A terrific course for new gun owners, those considering their first gun purchase, or for refresher training.
A great first step if you are not sure about carrying a gun concealed.
Not comfortable around guns?
New to the world of gun ownership, and
not sure where to start?
Of the three core USCCA classes, this is a great beginning.
But it is much more than simply a beginners training!
The emphasis is on gaining comfort, confidence, and wisdom in safety and responsibility.
You will learn the essential safety rules of gun ownership: how to safely handle, use, and store firearms.
Topics include:
- Understanding semi-automatics & revolvers
- Clearing a gun to a safe condition
- Magazines and how they work
- Selecting a handgun
- Ammunition components & calibers
- Common malfunctions
- Other uses of force
- Defensive shooting fundamentals
- Proper grip
- How to sight a gun for firing
- Trigger control
- Gear & gadgets for guns
- Basic & Advanced Skill development
- And more!
*No live guns or ammunition in the classroom*
All training is accomplished with safe, non-live fire devices.
3 Hour Course, $75 per student.
Home Defense Class
Interested in building your skills and knowledge about including firearms in the defense of your home?
This course equips you in firearms abilities, home security, knowledge of laws, and the aftermath of violent encounters.
This course covers much of the same fundamentals that are taught in Basic Handgun, but then builds with more specifics regarding firearms and home defense issues.
Topics include:
- Developing a personal and home defense plan.
- Home security tools, planning, and practice.
- Fundamentals of home defense with handguns, shotguns, and rifles.
- Defensive shooting fundamentals.
- Legal use of force in the home.
- Conflict avoidance.
- Violent encounters and their aftermath.
- Interacting with police and legal system.
*No live guns or ammunition in the classroom*
All training is accomplished with safe, non-live fire devices.
4 Hour Course, $75 per student.
Illinois & Florida Concealed Carry
The best and most thorough course in taking personal responsibility for your own safety, and the safety of your loved ones.
This detailed training is designed to keep you physically, legally, financially, and morally secure.
"Owning or carrying a firearm isn't about statistics or constitutional arguments,
it's not about analogies or comparisons, it's not about the gear,
and to be honest, it's not even about the gun.
It's about taking a small measure of personal responsibility for our safety and the safety of our families." USCCA textbook author, Michael Martin
Taking that responsibility seriously means getting trained the best way possible, and always seeking more training and situationally-appropriate practice.
The reason the USCCA training material exists is simple and profound: To save lives and bring security to our communities.
This course may be taken as a beginner or experienced gun owner.
*No live guns or ammunition in the classroom*
All training is accomplished with safe, non-live fire devices.
Here is a summary of the detailed topics covered in class:
- Developing a personal and home protection plan
- conflict avoidance
- situational awareness
- cover & concealment
- what having a permit means
- Self-Defense Firearm Basics
- universal safety rules
- safely clearing a firearm
- learning about a gun's action
- revolvers, semi-automatics, and modern striker-fired handguns
- magazine and ammunition components
- calibers of ammunition
- care and storage
- common malfunctions
- Defensive Shooting Fundamentals
- defensive vs. marksmanship shooting
- proper grip and stance
- sighted, unsighted, and flash sighting alignments
- trigger control
- Legal Use of Force
- reasonable force
- deadly force
- use of force continuum
- defense of the home
- defending property
- Violent Encounters and Their Aftermath
- physical affects of violent encounters in your body
- physiological reactions
- issuing commands
- when your right to force ends
- phone calls to make
- interacting with police
- preparing for legal defense
- Gear and Gadgets
- holster styles
- belts
- lights and lasers
- gun safes and storage
- Basic and Advanced Skills
- creating a training program
- non-live fire practice
- fundamental drills
- introducing your next class
The following areas, mandated by the Illinois State Police(ISP), are addressed:
- Firearm safety
- Basic principles of marksmanship
- Care, cleaning, loading, and unloading of a concealed firearm
- All applicable State and Federal laws relating to the ownership, storage, carry, and transportation of a firearm
- Weapon handling
At the conclusion of your training, and successful completion of the shooting qualification, you will receive the appropriate documentation necessary to complete your application with the State of Illinois.
16 Hour Course, $75 per student
Women's Basic Pistol
When you want to follow through on your desire to learn firearms, but with the comforting atmosphere of learning with
other women at your level.
This USCCA class designed by author Beth Alcazar can be your first step to greater confidence!
This class will often be offered together with Intermediate Pistol.
*No live guns or ammunition in the classroom*
All training is accomplished with safe, non-live fire devices.
3 Hour Course, $75 per student.
Women's Intermediate Pistol
This class offers the perfect opportunity to build on the basic skills and the fundamentals learned in the basic pistol class.
This is your chance to take those next steps with firearms, so you are not standing still in your training.
We will go more in depth with topics you should know from the first steps.
*No live guns or ammunition in the classroom*
All training is accomplished with safe, non-live fire devices.
4 Hour Course, $75 per student.
Women's Defensive Pistol
There is something much more important to learning firearms than standing still at a range shooting a sheet of paper.
It is vital that we learn about defensive shooting. This requires very different techniques, tactics, and mindset.
This training helps you realize that you are learning to use a tool which may one day be used to save lives.
*No live guns or ammunition in the classroom*
All training is accomplished with safe, non-live fire devices.
4 Hour Course, $75 per student
A Mass shooter Threat
What's Your Plan?
Having a detailed plan against threats is essential in our responsibility for those in our care.
The purpose of this curriculum is to educate and equip organizations and individuals to develop an effective Emergency Operations Plan. This plan is fitted to your own needs, context, size, and building.
In response to today's threats of violence, instead of wondering "What can be done to stop this?", you will be equipped to say "THIS is what needs to be done to stop these events!"
This class is a 4-hour single session.
It begins with careful data analysis of tragic mass shootings from the past twenty years.
It teaches the real motivations, profiles the killers, their methods, timelines of the events, and more.
This data then helps your group to deter, prevent, respond to, and mitigate these tragedies based on facts, not theories.
Specifics in the training:
- 4 keys areas that must be addressed in an Emergency Operations Plan
- 7 defined steps to develop this plan
- Evaluating the security of a building
- Staging a safe room
- What is needed in an emergency trauma kit
- 6 things individuals can do to make a difference after this training
- and more
Your organization, or individuals attending the course, will receive a USCCA certificate of training for your records.
Every person attending receives the 190-page, detailed, researched, richly illustrated textbook to use as a resource in your ongoing planning.
Get this training
This course is being offered in our Palos Hills Training Center.
However, for your group, church, school, neighborhood, or family, this training can be brought directly to your own location.
All that is needed is a meeting space for the attendees and our audio-visual presentation.
Classroom training for individuals, $75
Training at your location, $85 per individual or rates available for group sizes.
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