Category Archives: North Carolina

Academi

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opened in 1998

  • 1997 founded as Blackwater
  • May 15, 1998 Training center opened
    – 6,000-acres
    – cost $6.5 million
  • November 2006 acquired 80-acre facility in Mount Carroll, Illinois
    – called Impact Training Center
  • July 2008 Southwest’s facility in San Diego opened
  • 2009 renamed as Xe Services
  • 2011 acquired by private investors and renamed Academi
  • 2014 became a division of Constellis Group

Moyock, NC

 54 tactical ranges, five ballistic houses, multiple MOUT/scenario facilities, four ship-boarding simulators, two airfields and three drop-zones, a three-mile tactical driving track, 25 classrooms, multiple explosive training ranges, a private training center, accommodations for over 450 personnel and other training support activity centers

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/moyock-nc

ACADEMI Southwest’s facility

  • 61,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility
  • 25 yd. Indoor Firearms Range (12 stations), rated 7.62mm NATO, high/low light
  • 3 fully equipped climate controlled classrooms (Computer, projector, Wi-Fi)
  • Ship simulator (3 deck levels)
  • Non-Lethal Training Ammunition Shoot House (2500 sq. ft.)
  • Container Climbing/Rappel Tower

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/san-diego-ca

ACADEMI in Salem, Connecticut

  • A 12-lane indoor range for rifle, pistol, shotgun
    25-yard
  • Practical Lab
  • Firearms Training Simulator

https://www.academi.com/pages/facilities/salem-ct

Piedmont Community College

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178-acres

Established on July 1, 1970

  • July 1, 1970 Established
  • 1979 Name changed to Piedmont Technical College (PTC)
  • July 1, 1985 expanded to include Caswell County
  • 1984-85—Person County Campus expanded
  • 1987 Caswell County Campus opened
  • 1987 Name changed to Piedmont Community College (PCC)
  • five semester Gunsmithing program
  • 2,080 hours
  • Gunsmithing certificate
  • Gunsmithing diploma
  • Associate’s Degree

Piedmont Community College
Person County Campus
1715 College Drive
Roxboro, NC 27573

(336) 599-1181

http://www.piedmontcc.edu/guns

Montgomery Community College

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9,000 square feet

  • September 7, 1967 first charter issued to Montgomery Technical Institute
  • 1968 Adult Basic Education and adult high school diploma programs began
  • 1975 64,000 square feet Campus built on a 149 acres
  • 1978 accredited by State Board of Education Department of Community Colleges
  • 1983 Montgomery Technical Institute became Montgomery Technical College
  • 1987 name changed to Montgomery Community College 
  • 1992 Business, Industry, Technology Resource Center (BITRC) created
  • 1994 44,800 square feet electronic library
    – for the  the North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH)
  • 2004 3,000 square feet Criminal Justice Complex built
  • 2009 6,400 square feet Forest Management Technologies program added
  • 2020 campus now includes 134,400 square feet on 153 acres of land
  • Gunsmithing degree, diploma or certificate
  • Daytime, evening, or weekend programs
  • offers a two-year associate degree program in Gunsmithing
  • two-thirds of class time is spent in the shops applying what is learned
  • Students build 3 custom rifles and a custom 1911
  • NRA affiliated Gunsmithing school (1 of 4)
  • Offers NRA approved short-term gunsmithing courses
    – three days to two weeks in length
  • Woodworking shop
  • Two machine shops
    – 13 milling machines
    – 23 high-speed precision metal lathes
    – surface and pedestal grinders
  • Welding Shop
  • Five-position, 100-yard outdoor firing range for use in test firing, chronographing, reloads and bench rest shooting
  • Midway USA Arms Room
    – the most comprehensive, up-to-date firearms inventory possible
  •  Brownells Labs

Montgomery Community College
1011 Page Street
Troy, North Carolina 27371

(910) 898-9740

https://www.montgomery.edu/programs/gunsmithing/