Rooftop Is Where DFW Law Enforcement Trains. Here's Why.
More than 25 departments across DFW — including federal agencies — have active members at Rooftop Shooting Range. That's not something we planned when we opened in 2023. It's what happened when law enforcement professionals found a facility that was actually built for how they train.
This post explains what that means in practice, why departments choose Rooftop over other options in the area, and what the facility can support for agencies and units.
What Other DFW Ranges Can't Offer
There are a lot of ranges in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro. Most of them are built for a general membership — which means their rules are built around managing the lowest-skill person on the property at any given moment. No holster draws. No rapid fire. No movement drills. Cease-fires on the hour for target changes. An RSO watching every bay.
Those rules exist for a reason. They don't make those ranges wrong — they make them the wrong tool for law enforcement training.
Officers who are qualifying, building perishable skills, or running scenario-based training can't do it in a static lane environment with a 30-second par clock. The training degrades. The range day becomes a compliance exercise, not a skill-building session.
Rooftop operates differently because it was built for a different user.
How Rooftop Is Set Up for LE Training
Nine outdoor tactical bays, each configured for dynamic shooting rather than static positions. Every bay supports:
Draw from holster — not permitted at most DFW ranges
Shoot on the move — lateral, forward, and uprange movement
Engage multiple targets — steel and paper, positioned across the bay
270° shooting arc — into the backstop and side berms, not a single direction
CQB scenarios — netted walls and barriers that can be arranged to create close-quarters setups
VTAC barricades, barrel stacks, benches — already in the bay, not something you have to request or bring
For full-day training sessions, we have canopies and shade cover. We have all the target stands a department will need — you don't bring supplies, you bring your people and your training plan.
The 150-yard rifle bay is available for carbine qualification and precision work — the kind of distance most DFW ranges can't offer for active training.
What Departments Have Used Rooftop For
We've hosted a range of agency training uses since opening:
SWAT training. Tactical units have used the bay configurations — including netted barriers and CQB setups — for scenario-based work. The 270° arc and movement-friendly rules make this possible at Rooftop in ways that don't work at a conventional range.
K9 neutrality exercises. K9 units have rented bays specifically to run gunfire exposure training — getting dogs acclimated to the sound and environment of a live-fire range under controlled conditions. This is a use case most ranges have never considered, let alone supported. Rooftop has.
Department rifle qualification. The 150-yard rifle bay has been used by multiple departments for qualification shoots. Distance, fresh air, and no line of civilian shooters waiting behind your officers.
Annual qualification shoots. Pistol qualification in a dynamic environment — not a lane with a fixed target board.
Individual officer range time. Active LE members who train at Rooftop between department requirements — building actual skill rather than maintaining minimum qual scores.
Pricing
Other department rental options in DFW tend to come with high overhead costs built into commercial range operations. Rooftop is a purpose-built training facility without the retail footprint, which lets us offer competitive pricing for department days and individual LE access.
Individual LE pricing:
15% off day pass admission
15% off all membership tiers
Annual membership: already discounted rate, plus an additional 15% off on top — our deepest pricing offered to anyone
Department rental: Contact us directly to discuss dates and rates. 430-499-0099.
Why We're Built This Way
Rooftop was founded by Peter Kim, who in addition to running the range volunteers training time for underfunded police departments — agencies that can't access quality instruction or facilities but whose officers still carry and deploy. That context shapes every decision about how the range operates.
The rules here exist to support serious training, not to minimize risk from the unprepared. If you're a professional, this facility treats you like one.
