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    • Home
    • Mass Shooter Threat
    • Sign up for a class
    • Calendar view of classes
    • Firearms Courses
    • AR15
    • Certified Instructor
    • Church Response Teams
    • Children and Family
    • TASER Training
    • Pepper Spray training
    • Meet your instructor
    • Basic Handgun Course
    • Home Defense
    • Concealed Carry
    • Women's Handgun
    • Illinois CCL
    • DSF Levels 1 & 2
    • Contact us
    • Testimonials
    • Emergency First-Aid/CPR
Defensive Carry Training

(219) 513-3212


  • Home
  • Mass Shooter Threat
  • Sign up for a class
  • Calendar view of classes
  • Firearms Courses
  • AR15
  • Certified Instructor
  • Church Response Teams
  • Children and Family
  • TASER Training
  • Pepper Spray training
  • Meet your instructor
  • Basic Handgun Course
  • Home Defense
  • Concealed Carry
  • Women's Handgun
  • Illinois CCL
  • DSF Levels 1 & 2
  • Contact us
  • Testimonials
  • Emergency First-Aid/CPR

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Firearms Classes, Concealed Carry, Home Protection

USCCA Core Classes

Basic Handgun

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.


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Home Defense

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.


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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.


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Specialized Classes

Classes in specific topics or skills development

Making Sense of Constitutional Carry

This course will cover the implications of permitless carry. Topics that students will be introduced to include: relevant laws, use-of-force decision making, and next steps to take.

Foundations of Defensive Shooting

The class will develop skills in the participant by first introducing the four building blocks of defensive shooting. Then the student will progress to experience the balance of speed and precision to achieve reality-driven results in the use of a handgun in self-defense. All the training material and tools are provided in the room, including advanced diagnostic laser SIRT pistols.

Developing a Personal & Home Protection Plan

We cannot plan when, or where, violence and crime might occur.  However, we can and should plan how to avoid violent encounters, which is the best method of protection. Developing a personal and home protection plan is a key component of avoiding or escaping potential threats.  

The Legal Use of Force

A vital part of the decision to employ a use of force to defend yourself and your family is to know the legal principles involved. Not being competently trained in this area puts you at legal and financial risk. 

Topics in this interactive session include: 

--The Reasonable Person Test 

--Reasonable Force 

--The Use-of-Force Continuum 

--How Prosecutors Evaluate Your Case 

--Defense of the Home 

--Defense of Property 

--Interacting With Police and the Court System

USCCA Protector Academy Qualification

For USCCA members accomplishing their firearm qualification for Levels 1-3 in the Protector Academy. You will be provided the appropriate classroom training to equip you for self-defense and your gun handling/shooting qualification. 

Coming Soon: Force-On-Force Training with Ultimate Training Munitions

One-of-a-kind training experience.

As close to real as possible, preparing you for real life deadly encounters in contextual training.


Women's Handgun and Self-Defense Fundamentals

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.

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.

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.


Defensive Shooting Fundamentals

Intuitive and efficient counter-ambush shooting preparation for Dynamic Critical Incidents

DSF Level 1

An intensive course to challenge yourself in development of Combat Focus Shooting.

Designed to work with what the body does naturally during a Dynamic Critical Incident in order to make your training--and real world responses--more efficient.


Learn more about the DSF courses here.

DSF Level 2

The continuation, and deepening, of the Intuitive Shooting program in Reality-Based training.

Your training will develop the Warrior Expert Theory: a constant process of gaining, evaluative and using information to form the appropriate habitual routines that can be executed on demand, without having to think about them.

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