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Firearms Training

Firearms Train-the-Trainer:

Firearms Remediation Services:

  • Remediating the Problem Shooter. 8 hours. Intended for officers or recruits who are experiencing problems qualifying or who exhibit dangerous or unsafe gun-handling practices, and are in need of professional assessment and training.

Tactical Handgun Seminars

 

Focus:  All sworn or commissioned officers, or military personnel.

Tactical Handgun I and II

 

Length:  Each course is 8-hours of classroom and live-fire range instruction

When a suspect forces it,
we teach you to survive a shooting,
and to avoid becoming involved in a gunfight!

Tactical...Practical...Realistic!

These live-fire seminars are about solving your real-world tactical shooting needs in situations where the metal meets the meat and you cannot afford to be second best.  Your world is not a competition where shooting and throwing a round or two means you don't bring home a trophy.  Instead, you live and work in the most real world there is:  where shooting and hitting another person means you get to go home today.  It is about REAL-WORLD tactics that have been proven over decades and through history to keep you alive during those violent, sudden, and vicious, and short-lived police firefights.

Our “Tactical Handgun” seminars provide advanced, comprehensive training for handgun employment at a level appropriate for any officer (patrol, SWAT, Narcotics, etc.) or instructor.  A combat proven system, these courses cover the laws and articulation of deadly force per the Constitution and your state law, as well as fire discipline theory, movement and fire, the proper use of barricades, and Real World Live Fire Close Combatives."  Each seminar is a fast paced, content-packed eight-hours.  These programs reveal the weaknesses of other shooting theories, explaining, and then remedying the phenomenon known as “Spray and Pray.”  These courses are a “must attend” program for any officer preparing to utilize justifiable force combined with absolutely defensible technique.

CUTTING EDGE TRAINING's Tactical Handgun programs were developed with the street cop in mind, and have shown over the years their effectiveness in keeping officers alive in the worst situations possible.  It remains the only program of its kind that was “reverse-engineered” to achieve survival goals.  We studied how police officers are murdered and assaulted in the real-world.  Then we put that knowledge together with how the human being inside the uniform actually reacts in that pressure-filled, life and death environment, and created a training system that is sweeping the law enforcement community’s understanding of how to put bullets on-target in-time in order to survive.  There are no "game philosophies" designed to speed up the shooter's firing rate at the expense of life-saving tactics and hit accuracy.  There are no "game philosophies" designed to speed up the shooter's firing rate at the expense of life-saving tactics.  The emphasis is solely on real-world gunfights:  recognizing the Threat early enough to make a difference, reacting tactically to avoid being hit while hitting a suspect sufficiently well enough to significantly affect his or her ability to harm you or others.  Finally, this course also emphasizes your very real need to defend your actions in the inevitable post-shooting aftermath.

These courses avoid dogma and “which stance must be used” arguments.  Instead, we concentrate on the areas where officers have a real need for training to survive: Up close, sudden responses to deadly attacks utilizing realistic methods that every officer can use.  This is the future of police handgun training.  Your officers can experience it today.

As one of our seminar participants noted in his evaluation:

"This ain't your dad's handgun class!"

We know.  We designed it to meet the threats YOU face today--up close, aggressive-like-never-before threats that only the best training of its kind can assist you in addressing.

CUTTING EDGE TRAINING currently offers two Tac-Handgun courses:

Tactical Handgun I

police firearms training This unique handgun training seminar provides every officer in every assignment the ability to put hits "on-target, on-time" in a combat environment.  We concentrate on real-life gunfights--up close, very personal, violent, short-lived life-and-death conflicts.  All live-fire is predicated upon moving and hitting the suspect, not simply shooting.  We teach you, probably for the first time, how NOT to shoot your partner in a dynamic situation where there are multiple officers on-scene.  Live-fire, safely performed in how to effectively and realistically engage from a deadly threat at contact ranges--this is the beginning of true live-fire combatives training.  And finally, how to articulate your use of deadly force should the worst happen and you are forced to injure or kill an offender.  This comprehensive course will change the way you look at employing a handgun.

This course serves as the pre-requisite to our Advanced Handgun seminar (Tactical Handgun II).

Course Content:

  • Constitutional Limits of Police Deadly Force

  • Comprehensive Safety Briefing

  • Firearms Employment Theory

  • Firearms Handling Theory and Methods

  • Deadly Force Target Engagement

  • Movement and Hitting

  • Beginning Real-World Live-Fire Close Combatives

Tactical Handgun II

Pre-requisite:  Tactical Handgun I

tactical handgun 2This course takes up where the first tactical handgun seminar leaves off.  Continuing training in movement and hitting theory and employment increases your ability to put hits "on-target, on-time" in a real-world combat environment.  Combatives Problem-Solving is more thoroughly explored in this course where we look at actual circumstances where officers have been injured and murdered in the past, and train to meet those challenges.  Different and tougher defense problems are presented.  Unusual shooting positions, from which officers have found themselves fighting for their lives, are introduced.  Also, the realistic use of cover and concealment are exercised and trained--always with the emphasis of why concealment is sought and maximizing any potential cover.  This seminar provides more of the best and most realistic firearms training available. 

Course Content:

  • Comprehensive Safety Briefing

  • Advanced Firearms Employment Theory

  • Movement and Hitting

  • Advanced Real-World Live-Fire Close Combatives

  • Unusual Shooting Positions
  • Survival Use of the Barricade

These seminars, and the advanced survival concepts they contain
are a
vailable only through
CUTTING EDGE TRAINING, LLC

 

This is just one of many evaluations like it from our classes:

     "The 2-day tactical handgun training conducted by George Williams of Cutting Edge Training (Tactical Handgun I & II) was exceptional. The key word is "edge"…from an officer's safety standpoint, it should be mandatory for all patrol officers. It's an extremely mental and physical course that introduces you to the reality of what an officer could face any given day. This course teaches you to react versus stand there and get shot. It teaches you to keep moving and fighting and still put rounds on the target, even while wrestling with a 250-pound man who is also reaching for his gun. You get the sensation of opening your eyes and finding a real (unloaded) gun pointed at your forehead and having to react to survive. You get the sensation of a muzzle blast of your partner's weapon as fires within inches of you.
     It makes me gasp when I compare the training I just received to the training the majority of officers receive…after receiving this type of training I can only think that everyone should have it, regardless of the cost or whether or not they want it. It's officer survival, plain and simple.
     I had a 20-year military career where I was always around weapons prior to my law enforcement career, and I've even taken a course with (name withheld) at the (location withheld), but nothing compared to what you put us through those 2 days and I would recommend it to any officer on the street that wants learn how to survive. This is the closest I've ever come to a gunfight but now I feel my chances of survival are much greater after attending this course. Thanks for the opportunity and I look forward to passing on as much as I can to other officers."

Res. Dep. Larry Lesley, Clark County, Washington, Sheriff's Office

Just one of many notes of thanks from our participants:

"Just a note to say thanks.  I am into my 18th hour of my shift today due to an abduction and armed robbery event.  We tracked the suspects from Seattle to Edmonds and engaged them in a low-rent motel.  As we moved into the cramped, dark, motel room, I had a Glock in my hand and found myself immediately in a physical struggle with one suspect (B/M/6-00/235).  I was able to dump him on his face, but as he hit the floor I was tangled in his feet and I, too, fell over backwards.  I heard myself yell "Index!" and saw my finger pull away from the slide - exactly like the drills we practiced at Tac Handgun I & II. 
      "That is a very, very good drill.  Thanks for making it a part of your class, I am positive it helped me stay safe even if I was not able to stay on my feet!!" 

 C. T. McNulty, Seattle, WA, Police Department    

 

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