Interesting facts about the Firearms Division
- FAD has approximately 20 buildings that include indoor and outdoor firing ranges, offices, ammunition and weapons storage, equipment and supply storage spaces.
- The indoor range complex and the outdoor ranges have a combined total of approximately 350 firing points for live fire training. These do not include the various scenario-based training ranges that FAD uses for simulated tactical training.
- FAD has 7 training ranges used for scenario-based tactical firearms training.
- There are approximately 125 staff members assigned to the Firearms Division including managers, support personnel and instructors.
- The instructor cadre consists of former law enforcement personnel who now work for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) and current law enforcement personnel detailed from many of the agencies who participate in training conducted at the FLETC.
- Training requires the use of approximately 20 million rounds of ammunition annually.
- The ammunition includes lead projectiles and reduced hazard (environmentally friendly) ammunition.
- The reduced hazard ammunition accounts for approximately 70 percent of the ammunition expended for training.
- FAD offers 9 advanced firearms training programs. These programs are open to Federal, state and municipal law enforcement personnel. Some international law enforcement personnel attend these programs when they are sponsored by one of the Federal partner agencies.
- FAD offers approximately 120 firearms courses. Many of these are contained in FLETC basic, agency basic and advanced law enforcement training programs.
- FAD conducts advanced export training (off site) at other Federal, state and municipal facilities around the country on an as-needed basis.
- If you need additional information or have questions, please use the contact information located on the FAD home page.
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