Daniel Pierson

This class will be useful to beginners and experienced defensively-minded people. This 8 hour class is jam-packed with useful tips for keeping yourself safe at home and in public. Taught at the Davenport Guns Shooting Club facility, you can expect a clean environment, friendly staff, and everything you need to get started all in one location.

• This class meets and exceeds the standard for the first 8 hours of the 16 hour training requirement for the Illinois Concealed Carry License if taught by a IL State Police approved concealed carry trainer (Daniel Pierson, IL CCT13F308), sign up for the Davenport Guns IL Concealed Carry Firearm License course to complete your 16 hours and receive your IL CCL training certificate.

• All Davenport Guns instructors are dual NRA/USCCA certified, and this course meets and exceeds the standards for the Iowa Non-Professional Permit to Carry Weapons training requirement. Ask for an Iowa PTCW training certificate in addition to your certificate of completion.

This course will cover:

• Developing a Personal and Home Protection Plan
• Self Defense Firearms Basics
• Defensive Shooting Fundamentals
• The Legal Use of Force
• Violent Encounters and Their Aftermaths
• Gear and Gadget, including a demonstration of the function and setup options for the AR15 and home defense shotgun.

Basic Women’s Handgun and Self-Defense Fundamentals is an introductory class. If you are brand new to firearms, this course is for you.

Everything you need for the course is available for rent or purchase at Davenport Guns, but you are encouraged to bring your own serviceable and safe firearms and gear if you have them.

Countering the Mass Shooter Threat is a curriculum which focuses on a study of compiled data from every mass shooting since Columbine. By studying and understanding this data and thus the mass shooter, a plan can be developed to counter the mass shooter.

Every client will receive a first aid kit valued at $130.

This course is the perfect choice for Iowa residents seeking a new IA Permit To Carry Weapons or current permit holders who wish to update their knowledge on changes in the law since they last applied for a license. This course meets all the firearm safety training requirements to apply for the State of Iowa Non-Professional or Professional Permit to Carry Weapons.

Real estate agents face a high risk of violent encounters in the workplace, more so than many other professions. This course was designed specifically to help real estate agents identify and mitigate these risks.

This course will cover: How to identify job-related activities that put agents at risk of an attack.

Situational Awareness: Teach students the finer points of tuning into their environment, helping them avoid a potentially violent encounter.

Commonly used cell phone safety features and apps that can be used to keep agents safe.

Legal use-of-force: What criteria must be met before an agent can use reasonable or deadly force – and the consequences that might follow.

Defensive Options: Armed, unarmed and less lethal.

At its most basic level, a personal and home-protection plan is designed to help keep you physically, legally, financially and morally safe. Your ultimate goal should be to avoid violent encounters in the first place by developing an acute awareness of your surroundings and by making intelligent decisions about your actions, behaviors and precautions.

Planning considerations for keeping yourself and your loved ones safe goes beyond just having a gun and knowing how to use it. Cover all your bases in this information-dense 90 minute mini-class!

Want to protect yourself and your loved ones, but not sure where to start? Get the answers you’re looking for in this 90 minute mini-class. Learn about the principles of safe gun-handling, how guns work, how to choose guns and gear, ammunition considerations, and more. Our highly trained and experienced instructors will help you cut through the noise of firearms industry marketing and keyboard warrior advice and set you on the path to selecting the tool that is right for you.

This 90 minute mini-class is your introduction to defensive shooting. The skills needed to defend yourself or your loved ones are significantly different than the skills needed to print neat groups on paper during a relaxing day at the range. Defending oneself more often than not requires rapid presentation of the handgun and multiple shots delivered quickly. Learn the key concepts that will help you build your defensive shooting practice, and develop the skills you need to win the fight for your life.

As of July 1st, 2021 Iowans no longer need a permit to carry to in order to bear arms outside the home. We here at Davenport Guns oppose any and all infringements to the right of the People to keep and bear arms. We also understand that carrying a firearm in public is not to be taken lightly, and is an activity to which a lot of accountability is attached.

What you don’t know CAN harm you.

Having the right mindset and “soft-skills” to stay out of danger is critical, and if a fight is forced upon you, making rapid and correct force application decisions will be the difference not only between life and death, but freedom and a prison cell.

Understanding the legal landscape regarding the carrying of firearms and the use of force in defense of self or others is as important as having the gun, and knowing how to use it.

In this brief, free, mini-class you will learn about:

-The implications of being armed in public
-Staying safe by avoiding danger
-Pre-threat indicators
-De-escalation
-Using force
-Seeking further training

Real World Defensive Shooting Level 1 is an introductory course covering the technical competencies needed to safely and responsibly engage in defensive pistol training. You will learn about achieving the proper mindset for self-defense, safe and efficient gun-handling, basic defensive shooting techniques, shooting tests and standards, concealment physics and carry gear, and an introduction to the concealed carry draw stroke.

In order to understand when you are justified to use force, and what level of force you are justified to use, you need state-specific, detailed information on use of force law and surrounding concepts.

You carry a gun so that you can prevent a violent criminal from taking you away from your family, the criminal justice system can deprive your family of your continued support just as readily. In order to be an effective, responsible armed citizen, you must have a robust understanding of the complexities of use of force law and how it is applied to real people, in real life.

This 5-hour course is a deep-dive into the elements of legal self defense as they apply to Iowa law, includes video analyses of real use of force encounters, examples, scenarios, and more. The instructor holds multiple certifications and teaching credentials for coursework covering use of force including The Law of Self Defense Instructor Program, The Complete Combatant, Rangemaster, USCCA and NRA.

Attendees of the course will receive a free copy of Law of Self Defense Principles by Attorney Andrew Branca, a $24.95 value!