AJ 290 — Firearms Instructors Course
This 40-hour course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to teach basic pistol and shotgun fundamentals to personnel. Students will develop knowledge in practices and philosophy of use of deadly force with a firearm, basic principles and concepts of pistol/shotgun deployment, vicarious liability, and legal issues. Students will develop skills in course development, class planning, instructional techniques, and instructor liability for a pistol/shotgun tactics program. Students will complete teach backs of taught course objectives to other class participants daily. Students will demonstrate proficiency in basic pistol/shotgun fundamentals and weapon nomenclature. Completion of this Basic Pistol and Shotgun Instructor Course satisfies POST Regulation 1070.