Firearms Identification Training
April 29, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Are you comfortable with your knowledge and skills to safely handle and unload multiple types of firearms including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns? Are you familiar with different types of firearms and how to identify and classify them correctly? Are you able to identify common machine guns, machinegun conversion devices, silencers, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns? If not, then this training is important for you! The class will instruct you on how to:
– Identify firearm parts and use correct terminology.
– Demonstrate safety procedures when handling and unloading firearms.
– Identify Federal firearm laws, Michigan firearm laws, Federal & Michigan firearm definitions.
– Identify markings on U.S. manufactured and imported firearms.
– Identify characteristics of a Homemade Firearm (aka “Ghost Guns”).
– Given a selection of firearms, be able to identify the manufacturer, and/or importer, model, caliber, and serial #.
– Identify markings on ammunition and identify the caliber or gauge.
– Recognize machine guns, machinegun conversion devices (e.g. “Glock Switch”), silencers, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns.
– Identify National Firearms Act registration (transfer) tax forms.
– Measure the barrel length and overall length of a rifle and shotgun and identify open-bolt and closed-bolt firearms.
– Demonstrate a field function check for automatic fire.
-This hands-on training will increase your overall knowledge involving many types and styles of firearms. You will be taught how to safely handle, unload, and correctly identify over 50 various types of firearms available at the training.
Instructor: Brian Luettke of Luettke Firearms Consulting, Inc. served 29 years in law enforcement which included four years as a police officer in Novi, Michigan and 25 years in Federal law enforcement prior to his retirement in October 2020. In his last 22 years in law enforcement, he served as a Special Agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). When Brian retired from ATF, he was a Supervisory Special Agent and the Chief of the Advanced Firearms and Interstate Nexus (Training) Branch located within the Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD) in Martinsburg, West Virginia. During this position, Brian was the training branch supervisor and instructor for an advanced level firearms identification training course. He has taught firearms and ammunition identification at various locations in the United States and to law enforcement officers in Canada, Europe, and Africa. Brian has received training and toured over 40 firearm factories and 12 ammunition manufacturing facilities throughout the United States, and in Canada, South Africa, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria.
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 8:30am-4:30pm
Location: Flint Township Police Department Training Facility, 5200 Norko Drive, Flint, MI 48507
Cost: LEORTC licensed members – pre-paid
LEORTC non-licensed members – $150
Non-Members – $300
Class size is limited to 25
“This training has been registered with MCOLES for the use of PA 302 Law Enforcement Distribution funds.”
This training is registered as, “Agency Elected Continuing Professional Education (CPE).”