During the summer of 1996 the members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police S.W.A.T. team designed and constructed a live-fire shoot house on the firearms range grounds. The purpose of this facility is to enable tactical officers to use live rounds while training in a dynamic setting. This open-roofed building is constructed in such a fashion as to prevent the penetration of rounds through the interior and exterior walls or doors.

There is no roof on the structure allowing for observation from an elevated deck. The observation tower is protected by a sheet of bulletproof glass which was donated by a local bank. This glass is rated to withstand rounds up to a .308 caliber.

Only the S.W.A.T. team and the F.B.I. use this facility for live-fire demonstration or training in tactical entries. The facility is also used for Simunition training by the S.W.A.T. team, our Officer Survival Course, and numerous federal agencies. Simunition is a paintball like round that is fired from a standard revolver.