Course length: Two Days

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Course description: Duty Handgun introduces or refreshes the basic handgun skills required for effective real-world operation of the handgun.  Students will have fundamental skills instructed or enhanced through focused teaching on stress performance, threat confrontation and confronting 3-D threats.  This is a reality-focused course tailored to law enforcement and military use of force situations.

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Identifying the techniques and skills most lacking in foundational law enforcement/military handgun training, Defensive Handguns primary goal is to provide students with a more functional and realistic approach to handgun use in a violent encounter.

 

Topics covered include:

 

• Real world safety

• mindset and the effects of stress on the body

• Human anatomy and the three dimensional threat

• Fundamentals of marksmanship

• Drawing from the duty holster

• Magazine changes (tactical and emergency)

• Malfunction clearances

• Transitioning to/from less lethal equipment and restraints under threat

• Transition to backup gun (if carried)

• Movement

• On cover/off cover shooting

• Austere shooting positions

• Introduction to two man techniques

 

Course cost: $500.00

 

Equipment:

 

• Duty handgun with 3 magazines (single stack, 5-7 magazines)

• Duty belt with equipment

• Backup gun if carried on duty

• Duty belt and gear

• 1000 Rounds handgun

• 100 rounds backup gun (if carried)

• Ear and eye protection

• Hat

• Long sleeves recommended (pants mandatory)

 

Optional (recommended) gear:

 

• Gloves

• Sunblock

• Hydration

• Field cleaning kit

• Basic maintenance tools

• Knee and elbow pads

• Additional magazines for all weapons

 

Class size: Minimum of 10, no more than 15

 

Prerequisites: Credentialed Law enforcement, Military or Private Security authorized to be armed.