Law enforcement trainers support self-defense for Chicagoans

The two major national organizations of law enforcement trainers, the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), joined by the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI), have filed an amicus brief in the Chicago gun ban case pending before the Supreme Court in support of the citizen's right to self-defense with firearms and against the Chicago gun ban.

The ILEETA/IALEFI brief, authored by noted Second Amendment advocate David Kopel, focuses on the failure of Chicago's draconian gun ban to reduce crime, and contains lots of tables and stats for the stats geeks. The amicus brief can be read here. As an item of trivia, the head of ILEETA, Ed Nowicki, is a retired Chicago cop.

Other signatories of the brief include the Southern States Police Benevolent Association, Texas Police Chiefs Association, Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Congress of Racial Equality, Claremont Institute, and Independence Institute, in addition to several professors and academics.

Notably, both ILEETA and IALEFI also supported the pro-individual rights side in last year's historic Supreme Court Heller case, which invalidated Washington, D.C.'s gun ban.

As a member of both ILEETA and IALEFI, I am quite pleased that they have once again joined the side of the citizenry, and individual human rights, over the tyranny of gun control and the tyrants who support citizen disarmament.