| A widely accepted fact in the gun and firearm | | | | website, IgnatiusPiazza.com, are nothing short of |
| industry is that education equals safety. In fact, this | | | | impressive: "We now train more students each year |
| rule applies to any industry, and any job. Dr. Piazza | | | | than all the other shooting schools in the US |
| and Front Sight Firearm Training Facility understand | | | | combined while we develop the world's greatest |
| this. Dr. Piazza is a former chiropractor who realized | | | | facilities on 550 acres near Las Vegas, Nevada and |
| that too many civilians are unable to knowledgeably | | | | expand the finest instructional staff in ANY industry." |
| and responsibly handle a firearm. This inability and | | | | Their training is indeed top-notch, with instructors |
| irresponsibility can only lead to disasters and, | | | | with decades of experience in police, SWAT, Marines, |
| unfortunately, headlines. With this in mind, in 1996, | | | | and more, their organization is run by and its students |
| Piazza founded Front Sight Firearm Training Facility. | | | | are trained by the finest teachers anywhere. "The |
| Through the education that any civilian can receive | | | | criteria for graduation from Front Sight's Instructor |
| from Piazza and Front Sight, America has become a | | | | Development Course are so far above the industry |
| considerably safer place to live. Since then, Front | | | | standard, that fewer than one out of ten participants |
| Sight has become an enormous powerhouse, annually | | | | make the grade in their first attempt. Even seasoned |
| turning out more trained firearms users than all other | | | | law enforcement and military instructors are humbled, |
| facilities in America combined. | | | | yet grateful for the experience to learn what it takes |
| The idea that education equals safety is one that any | | | | to be part of the greatest instructional staff ever |
| worker in any industry can understand. An untrained | | | | assembled in any industry." |
| factory worker is one that could very easily lose a | | | | Piazza's professional experience as a chiropractor |
| limb. An uneducated truck driver is one that could end | | | | illustrates why he would be inspired to a engage in a |
| lives - his own and others. An untaught electrician | | | | field like training and education. Any health-care |
| could easily find his life end in a very surprising, even | | | | practitioner can tell you the importance of excellent |
| shocking, way. A soldier without training and | | | | education and responsibility. A patient entrusts a |
| understanding of his weapon could wind up killing | | | | doctor with his life and well-being, it is the doctor |
| himself, a comrade or an innocent. A civilian handling a | | | | that must be fully capable to handle the patient's |
| firearm is in the exact same position. Untrained, | | | | health and body. Piazza takes the same |
| uneducated, untaught, he is potentially lethal in the | | | | professionalism one would expect of any doctor and |
| handling of any firearm. | | | | applies it to his firearms training facility. His graduates |
| Piazza is extremely successful in the field of | | | | are capable, responsible very well-trained firearms |
| education and firearm training. The statistics offered | | | | users. |
| by Front Sight's website, and Ignatius Piazza's | | | | |