Meet Your Instructors.

Dennis is an active law-enforcement officer with more than three decades in the criminal-justice field. An FBI-certified firearms instructor, he has extensive experience training officers in pistol, rifle, shotgun, and tactical operations.

His career includes service as a patrol officer, detective, SWAT operator, supervisor, and investigator on assignments involving the DEA and ATF, along with leadership on hundreds of high-risk search and arrest warrants.

Sherry is a dedicated firearms educator and advocate for responsible self-defense. She teaches pistol, rifle, shotgun, home firearm safety, personal protection, and concealed-carry courses with an encouraging, student-first approach.

Her training also includes women’s handgun and self-defense, defensive shooting, mass-shooter response, emergency first aid, Stop the Bleed, and CPR/AED.

Shawn retired as a Major after 24 years with the Pawtucket Police Department. His assignments included leadership of the Training Division, Office of Professional Standards, Patrol Division, and service on the Special Response Team as a sniper-element leader.

He brings deep experience in firearms, active-threat response, use of force, armorer work, and academy instruction, including helping develop Pawtucket’s active-shooter training and Rhode Island’s first rescue-task-force response model.

Mark’s firearms education began with hunter safety in Vermont and continued through service as a combat medic with the Vermont Army National Guard’s 3/172nd Mountain Battalion.

A Massachusetts Certified Firearms Instructor since 2018, Mark focuses on helping students gain safe, informed access to their rights. He continues to train so he can keep growing as both an instructor and firearm owner.