Archives for September 2013

The Chief Instructor at Illinois Gun Pros – Mike Bius – has now been approved as a Certified Concealed Carry Instructor and is listed on the Illinois State Police website.

This means that as soon as the curriculum is approved — which we expect on September 30th — classes can begin.

We have tentatively scheduled our first two classes for Saturday, October 5th and Monday, October 7th, subject to curriculum approval.

If you are on the waiting list for an Illinois Concealed Carry Class, you will be notified by email as soon as the curriculum approval comes through so that you can get a seat in a class!

On Friday, August 30th, the Illinois State Police released the curriculum requirements for the full 16 hours of training to get an Illinois concealed carry permit (Illinois License to Carry).  In addition, they began accepting the fingerprints and applications for instructors to receive their credentials.  Word is that the approval process will take about two weeks.  It seems that the State Police feels like it has a black eye from the FOID card wait times, and is content that the livescan fingerprints will expedite their approval process for instructors.

The curriculum guidelines finally give us the detail so that we can ensure that our own curricula will satisfy the legal requirements.  Illinois Gun Pros has submitted an affidavit that our curriculum satisfies the legal requirements, and is confident that the “Illinois Gun Pros Illinois License to Carry Class” will appear on the State Police website as approved very soon.