What qualifies you to carry a deadly weapon in public?
With having a concealed carry weapons license also comes responsibility. Being qualified to carry a deadly weapon in public involves more than just having a card in your wallet.

In-Gauge of Polk County – A non-profit organization
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What qualifies you to carry a deadly weapon in public?
With having a concealed carry weapons license also comes responsibility. Being qualified to carry a deadly weapon in public involves more than just having a card in your wallet.



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Our Active Shooter Training is a 15-hour intense, tactical firearms training course. No prior firearms training is required to participate in this training. We take the individual participant from basic handgun training to advanced tactical.
A nationally recognized official NRA firearms certificate of training will be issued upon successful completion of the course. This training fulfills and exceeds the State of Florida’s training requirement for applying for a Florida concealed carry weapons license. Upon successful completion, no further training will be required to apply for a Florida concealed carry weapons licence. Florida concealed carry licenses are recognized in 36 other states.
We are currently accepting registrations for our fall classes.
Phase Two of our Active Shooter Defense Training will begin Saturday, Sept. 28th. The closing date for registration is Sept. 20th.
Call for additional information or visit our website at: http://www.ingaugeofpolkcounty.com
STOP THE BLEED emergency blood loss control and tourniquet training included with all our advanced level firearms training classes.
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FREE kids’ firearms safety training
FREE kids’ DAISY air rifle safety training, teaching the NRA’s principles of firearms safety.

Join In-Gauge of Polk County for a FREE youth firearms safety training event, using a DAISY inflatable BB firearms training range, at the Gander Outdoors Grand Re-Opening, 7400 Hwy. 60, East, Bartow, Florida, Saturday, June 22nd.


This will be a FREE kids’ firearms safety training event, teaching the NRA’s 3 principles of firearms safety. There will be hourly prize drawings for range participants ages 6-16, accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.
Our “Active Shooter” training is real firearms training intended to prepare the participant for an active shooter encounter.
Our “Active Shooter” training is above and beyond any ALICE training you may have heard of or participated in. Our “Active Shooter” training is real firearms training intended to prepare the participant for an active shooter encounter in the workplace, place of worship, shopping mall and everyday life.
Our “Active Shooter” training teaches more than throwing books, papers and pens at an armed assailant. Our “Active Shooter” training trains the participant in the safe and proficient use of a firearm for the defense of one’s life, the lives of his or her loved ones, members of a congregation or co-workers.
Our “Active Shooter” training was NOT created by retired law enforcement officers or military personnel, with time on their hands, sitting around a conference table, looking for a way to keep busy.

Our “Active Shooter” training is a nationally recognized, official NRA, advanced firearms training course. Training includes basic through advanced training. No prerequisite is required. The complete course of training is required regardless of prior training, certification or licensing. Safety is paramount and it must be assured that all participants have the same instruction when engaging in the live-fire range training.
Successful completion of our “Active Shooter” training provides the participant with a nationally recognized, official NRA certificate of training that can be used for the applying for a State of Florida concealed carry weapons license. Our “Active Shooter” training exceeds the the State of Florida’s training requirement for concealed carry weapons license application.
Our “Active Shooter” training is an intense, 15-hour, training course that will require a minimum of 250 rounds fired on the range using a defensive caliber handgun, incorporating drawing from a concealment holster, firing after drawing from a holster, engaging multiple assailants, while utilizing cover and concealment.
Training includes:
• Environment risk assessment
• Situational awareness
• Mental preparedness
• Psychological consequences
• Defensive firearm familiarization and selection
• Concealed carry techniques
• Drawing and firing from a concealed carry holster
• Selecting and utilizing cover and concealment
• Confronting and dealing with single and multiple armed assailants
• Extensive live-fire range training
Contact us for complete course information or to register for a class. Simply fill out the convenient information form and we will promptly respond to your inquiry at: CONTACT US
Group rates are available.
Customized, private training dates can be scheduled for groups of 6 or more.
Join us Tuesday, January 22nd for a presentation by Pastor Terry Howell on his experience surviving an active shooter encounter.
On December 14th, 2014 Pastor Terry Howell survived an active shooter incident that occurred in the office of his ministry. Looking down the barrel of a .45 caliber semi-automatic, pointed at him at point blank range, Pastor Howell survived the attack, receiving only powder burns to his face and neck.

Sheriff Grady Judd: ” . . . a perfect stand your ground.”
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: ” . . . a perfect stand your ground.”
A long standing axiom, known and taught by those in the self-defense arena, was affirmed by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, during a press conference Wednesday, August 29th, regarding a fatal, self-defense shooting in Winter Haven, Florida.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd affirms that 3 seconds will determine who survives a deadly threat and who will not. Sheriff Grady Judd: “You see how quickly you have to make a decision on whether you live or whether you die.“
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