Slide 1
Slide 1
Slide 1
Slide 1
Slide 1
Slide 1
Slide 1

Citizen’s Use of Force – Lawful and Justified response to Criminal Attack – Clubhouse – 9:00-1:00

Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Citizen’s Use of Force – Lawful and Justified response to Criminal Attack – Clubhouse – 9:00-1:00

December 14, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Open to the public.

Instructor: Jeff Chudwin

Defending against criminal attack must be lawful and justifiable. Knowing when and how to react to violent threats is essential to those who have made the decision to be armed. Lessons learned from actual incidents will be considered.

This 4 hour class includes a review of segments of Illinois criminal law under 720 ILCS Article 7, the Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430 ILCS 66), case studies, and illustrates a pathway to making informed decisions in high stress, self-defense situations.

Cost: $50 members and $75 for non-members (bring your spouse or significant other for free!!)

Click here to register.

Jeff Chudwin is a career law enforcement officer and retired as the Chief of Police for the village of Olympia Fields, IL. A graduate of DePaul University Law School, Jeff served as an Assistant States Attorney for both Will and Cook Counties, IL where he reviewed and prosecuted numerous crimes against the public, including citizen’s use of force in self-defense. As an attorney, he has represent3ed both citizens and police officers involved in high level use of force incidents. As a state certified instructor, he has presented firearms and self-defense / use of force classes to both law enforcement officers and private citizens for over 40 years.

Click the link to register: https://illinoisstaterifleassociation.my.site.com/illinoisstaterifleassociation/s/register-for-event

Details

Date:
December 14, 2025
Time:
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Event Categories:
,

Venue

The Range
1589 N 7000 Rd W.
Bonfield, IL 60913 United States
+ Google Map
View Venue Website

“Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin

“The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, “The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed.” And they wonder why we’re a bit testy”

Editor of KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

“You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you’ll find me in a pile of brass.”

Tpr. M. Padgett

“Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol.”

Lori Broadhead

“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”

Ted Nugent

The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe or to prevent the people of the United States from keeping their own arms.”

Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

Thomas B. Reed (1886)

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)

“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution THEY don’t like.”

Alan Dershowitz

“Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.”

Sen. Larry Craig

“The AK-47 is not a device of aggression … I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,”

Mikhail Kalashnikov, April 1997