Red Dot Firearms Training

This class meets the following ILESTB mandates:

Legal update (1 Hour)

Use of Force (2 hours, 2 Hour scenario based training)

Officer Safety Techniques (1 Hour, 1 Hour scenario base training

Red Dot Lesson Plan

8 Hour

300 rounds of pistol ammo/ duty gear with at least 3 mags

(Classroom 3 hours)

MRDS Principles (Miniature Red Dot Systems)

• Target focused vision

• Finding the dot from the draw

• Tracking the dot during recoil

• Dot wobble and feedback during the shot process

MRDS Equipment

• MRDS Types

  • Open emitter

  • Closed emitter

• Firearms

• Care and Maintenance  

• Holsters

Zero

• What is the best zero

Malfunction

• No Dot

• Fogged Glass

• Broken glass or completely obscured MRDS

• Water on the glass

Case Law

• Tuttle vs. Oklahoma, 728 F. 2d 456 (10TH CIR 1984)

• Gibson vs. City of Chicago, 701 F. SUPP. 666 (N.D. IL, 1988)

• Graham v. Connor

• Tennessee v. Garner

• Bush v. City of Tallahassee

OIS

• Sighted Versus Unsighted Shooting

• Lethal Encounter Proximity

•  Norwich University Study

Travel to range for live fire

Safety Brief / Med Plan

Live Fire

• Zero

• Find the Dot

• Dot tracking

• Support hand / Dominant hand

• Move back / B8’s

• Malfunctions

• Movement

• Positional 

• Qualification

Force on paper/ Force on force (Sim guns only, no live weapons)