Dakota Firearms Training Academy

About Dakota Firearms Training Academy

Dakota Firearms, LLC, is a family-owned and operated firearms training academy serving Philadelphia and all of southeast Pennsylvania. Founded in 2016 after the horrific Pulse nightclub massacre, Dakota Firearms offers classroom and live fire training by NRA certified instructors at competitive prices. We cater to both experienced and novice shooters, with an emphasis on first time women shooters. We strive to provide superior customer service and education to our clients. Our knowledgeable staff is ready to assist in selecting the right training services for each individual’s needs. We are proud to have become a trusted source of knowledgeable firearms training in southeast Pennsylvania.

Certifications

• NRA Basic Pistol and CCW

Policies

Cancellation Policy

If you need to cancel a class, we require that you cancel at least seven (7) days before a scheduled class, via email only to info@dakotafirearms.net. If you have to cancel your class, we will offer you a credit to your account which will be valid for one (1) year from the date you cancel. If the credit is not used with one (1) year, it will become null and void. If you cancel less than seven (7) days before a scheduled class, you will be given credit of 50% of the course fee.  If you cancel within 48 hours before a scheduled course or you are a no show to a course, no credit will be offered - No Exceptions.

If any instructor cancels a class, you will be given a full refund. (See refund policy)

Reschedule Policy

If you need to reschedule a class, please read the Cancellation Policy and email us at gary@dakotafirearms.net. We will gladly reserve your seat in a future class upon notifying us.

Refund Policy

No refunds are given if the student cancels the class. If the instructor cancels the class, a full refund will be given within seven (7) business days via corporate check.

Other Policy

All class locations will be initially listed as "TBD" until at least two students have registered for the class, since our public classes are held in prepaid hotel meeting rooms. After students have registered and a hotel meeting room secured, students will be advised of the location within southeast Pennsylvania.

Waiver

In return for being admitted into firearms training classes, either indoor classroom training or live fire training at any indoor or outdoor gun range, and being permitted the use of all facilities secured by Dakota Firearms, LLC for training purposes, hereinafter referred to simply as “Dakota Firearms,” customer hereby agrees to waive any and all liability and hold harmless Dakota Firearms, its officers, members, employees, volunteers; any owner, manager, employees of the classroom training facility; and any owners, officers, board members, managers, employees, members and volunteers of any indoor or outdoor gun ranges secured for training use by Dakota Firearms, on account of any injury, illness, death or damage that may result from customer's use of the classroom or gun range facilities.

The term “facilities” in this agreement includes, but is not limited to, any classroom, meeting or conference room for indoor classroom training and any indoor or outdoor gun range for live fire training that Dakota Firearms has received permission to use on behalf of Dakota Firearms customers.

Customer further acknowledges that Dakota Firearms reserves the right to use any photograph/video taken at any event sponsored by Dakota Firearms, without the expressed written permission of those included within the photograph/video. Dakota Firearms may use the photograph/video in publications or other media material produced, used or contracted by Dakota Firearms including but not limited to: brochures, invitations, books, newspapers, magazines, television, websites, etc. To ensure the privacy of individuals and children, images will not be identified using full names or personal identifying information without written approval from the photographed subject, parent or legal guardian. A person attending a Dakota Firearms event who does not wish to have their image recorded for distribution should make their wishes known to the event organizers, and/or contact Dakota Firearms at 323 Hawthorne Avenue, Gilbertsville, PA 19525, in writing of his/her intentions and include a photograph. Dakota Firearms will use the photo for identification purposes and will hold it in confidence. By participating in a Dakota Firearms event or by failing to notify Dakota Firearms, in writing, your desire to not have your photograph used by Dakota Firearms, you are agreeing to release, defend, hold harmless and indemnify Dakota Firearms from any and all claims involving the use of your picture or likeness. Any person or organization not affiliated with Dakota Firearms may not use, copy, alter or modify Dakota Firearms photographs, graphics, videography or other, similar reproductions or recordings without the advance written permission of an authorized designee from Dakota Firearms.

Customer further acknowledges that the use of firearms is, by its very nature, a dangerous activity that could result in injury or death, and customer affirmatively assumes all the risk from participation in such activities on Dakota Firearms sponsored training facilities.

Customer further acknowledges that for indoor classroom training purposes, no live ammo will be in customer's possession, either in customer's gun, customer's gun case, customer's gun holster or on customer's person, and that only “dummy” ammunition, commonly referred to as “snap caps” will be used instead, and that customer's failure to abide by this rule will result in an immediate expulsion of customer from the class.

Customer further understands and agrees that customer shall abide by all the Rules and By-Laws of any live fire gun range used by Dakota Firearms, and all Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania while customer is using Dakota Firearm’s sponsored classroom and range facilities, and that customer's failure to do this shall result in customer being barred from classroom and range facilities.

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