Gunshot Residue Consultants

Daniel G. O'Kelly has over 46 years of experience as a range instructor, firearm designer, builder, auditor of licensees, collector, and expert on firearms and ammunition. 

Mr. O'Kelly served for 11 years as a Police Officer and for 23 years as a Special Agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). As one of ATF’s leading firearm experts, he was Lead Instructor of Firearm Technology at the ATF National Academy. Since his retirement from the ATF, he has served as a Senior Corporate Manager for Cabela’s, the then largest firearm retailer in the world, where he co-developed a firearm technology and ATF compliance training program for that company, and is the Founder/Director of IFSA. 

Mr. O'Kelly then founded and is the Director of the International Firearm Specialist Academy (IFSA), a guild of award-winning experts, former Federal Agents, Investigators, Police Officers, Medical Doctors, and an Attorney, in the Firearm and Forensics field. IFSA is the first and only company to offer a simplified step-by-step program that takes learners from their present knowledge-level to become a demonstrated safe, accurate, and competent Certified Firearm Specialist.

Online Training Courses:

• Toured and done research at numerous firearm and ammunition factories and museum firearm reference collections across the U.S., and in Europe and Africa.
• Consultant for several firearm manufacturing/designing companies.
• Regularly presents multi-day seminars to thousands of law enforcement personnel and licensed dealers, manufacturers, importers, and collectors nationwide on firearm enforcement, ID & technology, interstate nexus, and ammunition to law enforcement, the legal profession, and the firearm industry.
• Holds a firearm patent.
• Training program has been contracted numerous times by the Police Departments in many major cities, as well as the FBI, The U.S. Marshals, and Homeland Security. It is also approved by the IAI, ABMDI, and he is a Technical Advisor to AFTE.

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