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

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• 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

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• 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

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Montgomery Community College
1011 Page Street
Troy, North Carolina 27371

(910) 898-9740

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