Samuel DeSimone - CEO/Lead Instructor

 

Samuel comes from a Law Enforcement and competitive shooting background with over a decade of experience instructing Police Officers and civilians and while doing so has provided both end-user and instructor level training to over 100 Local, State, and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the east coast. Since 2015, Samuel has been a certified General Police Academy instructor through the Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officers' Education & Training Commission while also being a Specialty Instructor in the topics of Defensive Tactics, First Aid/CPR/Tactical Medicine, and Firearms where he primarily teaches the 124 hour basic firearms program. As a competition shooter, Samuel is a member of both USPSA and IDPA where he is ranked Master Class in Carry Optics Division ranking him in the top 4.5% of IDPA shooters in the world.

 

Samuel is also a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician with a training focus in tactical medicine where he was previously assigned to provide tactical medical support as a collateral duty during Law Enforcement tactical operations, mostly tasked with the apprehension of armed and violent criminal offenders. Samuel is Tactical Responder Certified (TR-C #47) by the International Board of Specialty Certifications as a tactical medical responder.

 

Throughout his career as a Law Enforcement Officer he has held a variety of high risk assignments, some of which included conducting investigations into narcotics, violent crimes, and organized criminal enterprises, where he served on a multi-jurisdictional task force working with State, Local, and Federal Agencies. During his time assigned as a task force officer he conducted high risk operations such as, covert surveillance, high risk warrant service, and vehicles assaults/interdictions on targeted suspects as part of his duties. Samuel is now assigned as the training Sergeant where he oversees training within his agency. Along with teaching, Samuel also regularly attends training from some of the most reputable instructors across the nation, and while doing so, has documented an excess of 4800 documented training hours since 2010.  Samuel is also a certified Gunsmith with an additional certification as a 1911 Pistolsmith and AR15/M16 Riflesmith, along with various Armorer level certifications for multiple weapon platforms.