National Patrol Rifle® Championships
America's oldest ongoing patrol rifle and active assailant training event. October 17, 2026 at the Multi-Lakes Conservation Association in Commerce Twp., Michigan.
The 2026 championships have been held — watch for next year's date.
Built for the patrol officer — the first to the fight.
The NPRC brings together first responders from around the country to train in a competitive live-fire environment, with an unmatched opportunity to collaborate, network and learn ways to improve individual and organizational readiness for violent encounters.
It is open to all law enforcement officers and military (reserves and retired welcome), select security personnel, and fire or medical personnel serving in an armed position within a SWAT team or Rescue Task Force. Competitors must be pistol and rifle qualified by their organization.
Alongside the match there is a very large concurrent vendor show, plus lunch and a sponsors' reception and dinner.
You won't know the course of fire until you get there.
The evolutions change every year and are briefed on the day, so there is nothing specific to rehearse. You shoot it the way you would on your own streets, with your issued equipment and your department's training — and your score shows where that training is strong and where it isn't.
The shooting
- Basic rifle marksmanship and close-quarter rifle tactics
- Moving targets and multiple adversaries
- Target identification and judgement in the use of force
- Varied positions, physical exertion and mental stress
The rules
- Use what you carry on the street — competition guns and gear are not allowed
- A chamber-safe device stays in your rifle except while shooting
- Rifles unloaded and on safe between ranges; handguns unloaded and holstered until told otherwise
- OPEN division: body armor and duty-belt gear are optional
The scoring
- The NPRC and the OPEN are scored as separate events
- You get a score for every evolution, plus an overall ranking
- Categories: overall, iron sight, non-magnified optic, magnified optic
- The overall champion holds the Patrol Rifle Cup at their agency for a year
- Active law enforcement, corrections and military personnel; retirees welcome
- Sworn, academy-trained reserve and auxiliary officers
- Current or retired military reservists and National Guard
- Current DOD or DOE security contractors and NRC-certified nuclear security
- Firefighters and medics assigned as a medic to a tactical team or Rescue Task Force, and trained and qualified on pistol and patrol rifle
Everyone must be a proficient semi-auto pistol and patrol rifle user and in good physical condition. NPRC entrants bring a driver's license and organization ID to check-in.
- Sponsors range: in the middle of the competition ranges — sponsors bring the weapons, optics, gear and ammunition and let you shoot them
- Reception and dinner: chicken or steak after the last relay, then results and prizes donated by sponsors
- The Chudwin Award: given each year to an officer for actions in battle or contributions to preparation, training and education, named for Chief Jeff Chudwin
- Patrol Rifle Utilization Survey: the NPRC's research project gathering data on real patrol rifle engagements, to replace assumption with fact
Lunch and dinner are included.
The NPRC is MCOLES registered for 302 Funds. Slots are limited for each event, so register early.
NPRC
Law enforcement, military and qualified first responders
NPRC OPEN
Qualified citizens training and competing alongside their officers
Sponsor an officer
The 2026 early offer: citizens who paid a professional's $109 entry before August 31
Applies to active or reserve duty LEOs and military, and qualified active-duty fire / medical professionals.
Citizens are invited to the line.
Qualified citizens can come train and compete with their law enforcement officers. The goal is to give agencies a unique way to improve their community's readiness for violence — and their relationships with counterparts in the fire and medical services, and with the citizens, politicians and business owners who are all stakeholders in a community's response.
It is a one-of-a-kind chance to immerse yourself in high-intensity, live-fire, reality-based patrol rifle training.
A raffle that gives it all away.
The NPRC has a long tradition of raising money for those who have served the greater good. A rifle donated by a sponsor is raffled, and one hundred percent of the proceeds are handed to the cause as the conference's last order of business.
Past causes include Brotherhood for the Fallen, Mission 22, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and the families of fallen officers. The 2025 benefactor was RallyPoint Outdoors, which works to combat veteran suicide.
- Oakland County Sheriff's Office
- Michigan Tactical Officers Association
- Ohio Tactical Officers Association
- Illinois Tactical Officers Association
- Georgia Tactical Officers Association
- Americansnipers.org
- Multi-Lakes Conservation Association
Supported by the National Rifle Association.
Multi-Lakes Conservation Association
3860 Newton Rd., Commerce Twp., MI 48382 · Saturday, October 17, 2026, 8:00 am – 7:00 pm