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David Cunningham
David CunninghamLead Firearms Instructor - Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor
At our sister website and company, Stoneridge Tactical, we provide firearms, tactics, tactics, and defense classes to civilian, law enforcement, security, corporate, and government in many disciplines. We offer concealed carry, beginning handgun, women’s classes, kid’s classes, defensive and tactical firearm classes for the novice and expert alike. Plus, we teach self defense, and defensive tactics. Stoneridge Tactical is the only certified ASP training school for security and law enforcement in southern Oregon. As such, we offer classes in ASP Tactical Baton, and ASP Tactical Handcuffing and Arrest Techniques. Stoneridge instructors are certified and licensed by some of the biggest and best organizations in law enforcement, security, and defensive tactics in the business, including Oregon DPSST, ASP, Safariland, Defense Technology and others to assure you quality classes every time!

David Cunningham is also a proud member of both the NLEFIA (National Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association) and IALEFI (International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors). These are two of the largest and finest organizations of law enforcement firearms instructors in the United States.

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Mr. Cunningham’s Training Goes Back to 1991

David Cunningham is Founder and Lead Firearms Instructor at Oregon’s first and only Simunition-Certified firearms training school, and Oregon’s biggest firearms training organization, offering more classes than any other firearms school in the state. He has been shooting since he was 5 years old and teaching since 1991. He teaches firearms classes ranging from children’s gun safety classes to Law Enforcement Tactical Handgun, Tactical Shotgun and Tactical Carbine Rifle, Defensive Tactics, Pepper Spray, Baton, and Handcuffing, women’s multi-day boot camps, and live-fire interactive scenario-based force-on-force crisis training. David Cunningham has the following credentials:

INSTRUCTOR CREDENTIALS

He is a former certified Child Abuse Investigator, DEA Highway Drug Interdiction Specialist, and worked as a Narcotics Enforcement Team member in the early 1990s working to perform undercover narcotics transactions which resulted in his writing multiple search warrants and arrests. He was also Supervising Officer on other additional search warrants that he served. As a Field Training Officer for the police department, he taught search and seizure, high-risk traffic stops, defensive tactics and arrest techniques, report writing, use of force.

Mr. Cunningham has been certified by the leading “3-initial” firearms training organization in the world.  He has trained in the Law Enforcement Division in tactical handgun, tactical shotgun, and tactical carbine rifle.  Oregon Revised Statutes requires that in order to certify for an Oregon CHL, the student must take a class taught by a specially certified instructor.  Mr. Cunningham has that certification, and well beyond that.

Advanced Tactical Handgun is Mr. Cunningham’s specialty and fondest course of instruction.  He received this training working directly with the Lower Columbia SWAT and the National Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association after his initial LE certification with the Ontario Police Department firearms instructors in California.

Mr. Cunningham received this certification near Kelso, WA in Cowlitz County, Washington working side by side with some of the finest law enforcement firearms instructors in America including Jefferson County SWAT, LAPD SWAT, San Bernardino SWAT, and Lower Columbia SWAT.

Recently certified in Tactical Shotgun, Mr. Cunningham has trained California Department of Corrections Pelican Bay CRT (Critical Response Team) in several disciplines.

Range safety is paramount in all of Mr. Cunningham’s classes.  We utilize a combination of hot-line/cold-line and hot-range/cold-range techniques to provide the highest element of practical training in our civilian and law enforcement courses.  Mr. Cunningham is licensed to build SOP for ranges and train range safety personnel.  As well, he is certified to design courses of fire and teach those courses to law enforcement and civilians alike.

Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification has certified Mr. Cunningham on multiple occasions.  He teaches Utah Concealed classes in Oregon.  If you are interested in a Utah Concealed class, please contact us!

Arizona does not require a license to carry concealed.  However, they do indeed offer licenses to residents and non residents alike.

Stoneridge Tactical’s in-person Concealed Handgun License course certification can be provided to the State of Virginia as well. Virginia’s reciprocity is currently 31 states.  You can use the in-person certification to apply with the State of Virginia through the mail!

As a former Police Officer and Field Training Officer, Mr. Cunningham taught subjects such as pursuit driving, search and seizure, report writing, high-risk traffic stops, defensive tactics, and is a current Advanced Firearms Instructor certified through the National Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association and the Law Enforcement Division of one of America’s largest “3-initial” training organizations.

Mr. Cunningham is an upper level instructor taught by Romanian-born master, Laurian Lapadatu and by Krav Maga Worldwide.  Mr. Cunningham currently operates southern Oregon’s first and only IDF-style Israeli Krav Maga training center.  He is proud to teach “Krav Maga” in Central Point, OR.   Mr. Cunningham is accepting new students at his training center.

Defense Technology is Mr. Cunningham’s product of choice.  Certifying with pepper spray is not required in the State of Oregon but is definitely recommended to alleviate potential liability issues that may arise from its use in the field by security and law enforcement.  He has been a certified instructor for many years.

Having been a certified instructor for ASP, and having been certified to teach Defensive Tactics, Mr. Cunningham is currently on the ASP International Training Team.  ASP classes are held quarterly at Stoneridge Tactical’s regional training facility.

As a Field Training Officer with the police department, his training and certification included such things as Death Investigation and Child Abuse Investigation.  Child abuse is one of the most cowardly of crimes investigated by Mr. Cunningham in his tenure as police officer.

During his work as a police officer, his certifications and training provided expertise that resulted in many notable drug arrests.

Executive protection services are also offered at Stoneridge Tactical.

Stoneridge Tactical and Rogue Valley Krav Maga in Central Point, Oregon provide the State’s leading defense classes for women, children, adults, and corporate organizations.  Mr. Cunningham is the lead instructor at both.

Corporate, private, military and law enforcement organizations contact Mr. Cunningham to provide D-TAC courses from ground zero to Instructor Certification.  If you or your company is interested in this, please contact us.

Mr. Cunningham has been involved in martial arts since 1976.  As a former black belt instructor at a local school in the Rogue Valley, he taught classes 3-4 nights a week for many years and sat on testing boards for student promotions.  Mr. Cunningham was a black belt judge in martial arts competitions throught the western United States.  Mr. Cunningham is now the Founder/Owner and lead instructor at Rogue Valley Krav Maga, an Israeli Defense Forces hand-to-hand combat training school.

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