How Are Snipers Trained? 5 Deadliest Shooters After Canadian Soldier Breaks Record

A Canadian sniper recently broke the world record for the longest-range kill in military history when he shot an ISIS militant in Iraq. The Joint Task Force 2 gun specialist took the 3,450-meter shot from a high-rise building -- so far away it took a full 10 seconds to reach its target. "The shot in question actually disrupted a Daesh [ISIS] attack on Iraqi security forces," an anonymous source told Toronto's Globe and Mail Wednesday. "Instead of dropping a bomb that could potentially kill civilians in the area, it is a very precise application of force and because it was so far away, the bad guys didn't have a clue what was happening." There are less than 300 active snipers in the United States Marine Corps, according to Business Insider, all of whom have been put through a grueling training process to get to where they are.