SAFD Theatrical Firearms Safety w/ Robb Hunter

Name: SAFD Theatrical Firearms Safety w/ Robb Hunter
Start: 2026-03-28T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-29T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Silver Spring Black Box

Schedule

Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm

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Location

Silver Spring Black Box | Silver Spring, MD

Flying V and Noble Blades team up once again to bring you the SAFD Theatrical Firearms Safety Course!
Guns carry power—dangerous, persuasive, polarizing, and at times life-saving. In theatre, you may eventually need to handle a firearm on stage. With the right training, you can create powerful, transformative moments while protecting the safety of your actors, crew, and audience.
This workshop encompasses more than 14 hours of training over two days with SAFD Fight Master and Theatrical Firearms Instructor Robb Hunter. The course focuses on terminology for the most common types of firearms and ammunition, the protocols for handling these firearms, techniques for gun wrangling on set or on stage, procedures for cleaning, handling jamming, and other potential malfunctions, as well as a brief history. The course culminates in a certification test that includes a written and practical portion, the latter being a staged “shoot out”.
All firearms, ammunition, ear and eye protection will be provided for you. You may bring your own eye and ear protection subject to instructor approval. The course has no prerequisites.
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Course Dates and times:
9am-7pm, Saturday, March 28th
9am-7pm, Sunday, March 29th
Both days will include an hour break for lunch. BOTH DAYS ARE REQUIRED FOR COURSE CREDIT AND TESTING.
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Deposits (Hold your spot!) are non-refundable. 3 weeks prior to class beginning, you will be contacted to set up a payment plan. Payment is due before the first day of class. Deposits can only be applied to registration fees made at regular or full cost and are not applicable toward any discounted registration fees, early bird registration fees and/or early registration fees.
Payment for class (full, partial, renewal) confirms your agreement to the refund terms below:
If you cancel more than 3 weeks prior to class beginning (21 days before class starts), you are eligible to receive a 70% refund.
If you cancel more than 1 week but less than 3 weeks prior to class beginning (7-20 days before class starts), you are eligible to receive a 25% refund.
If you cancel less than 1 week before class begins (1-6 days before class starts), you are eligible to have only your test fee refunded. ($35).
Got questions? Reach out to us at [email protected] and [email protected]
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Robb Hunter is a Fight Master and Theatrical Firearms Instructor for the Society of American Fight Directors, as well as a long-time member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He is an award winning movement and fight director in the DC Metro Area and has choreographed violence/movement for theatres all along the East Coast including The Shakespeare Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Arena Stage, The Studio Theatre, The Public Theatre, Theatre Harlem, Washington National Opera, The Cape Playhouse, Olney Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Signature Theatre, Theatre J. and many others. Robb holds an MFA in theatre pedagogy from the Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently the combat instructor for STC's Academy and Catholic University, artist in Residence at American University and teaching artist for The Studio Theatre Conservatory. When he is not teaching or directing violence he is “enabling” it through his theatrical weapons rental company, Preferred Arms, which supplies prop weapons to theatres and universities nationwide.
www.preferredarms.com, #DCfightdirector, www.robbhunter.org