| Front Sight Firearms Training Facility is the | | | | passed. Dr. Piazza worked for months, getting training |
| internationally acclaimed training institute near Las | | | | from men who were, at the time, the world’s |
| Vegas, Nevada. At the wheel of Front Sight is its | | | | experts on firearm use. |
| founder and director, Dr. Ignatius Piazza, a former | | | | Dr. Piazza, despite being a certified expert in Special |
| chiropractor. Dr. Piazza established Front Sight a little | | | | Pistol, Shotgun, Carbine and Rifle courses, needed to |
| over eleven years ago and has since then made it | | | | put in hundreds of additional hours to achieve the skill |
| into a massive resort, training more students every | | | | needed to pass the Four Weapons Combat Master |
| year than all the other shooting schools in the U.S. | | | | test. Even then, he failed the test several times, but |
| combined. Front Sight is operated without any sort of | | | | finally in August of 1993, became the second man in |
| Boot Camp mentality, and the instructors are nothing | | | | the world to secure the certificate. |
| like the Drill Sergeants one may come to expect. | | | | Dr. Piazza’s extensive training, spanning over |
| Hands down, Front Sight is the finest firearm training | | | | several years and several thousand hours of tutelage, |
| institute in the nation. | | | | granted him the understanding of what an ideal |
| Dr. Piazza’s mission to train and educate America | | | | training routine would be. Thus, he formed Front |
| on the safe, effective, responsible use of firearms | | | | Sight, pouring all of his knowledge, understanding and |
| came about in 1988. His life and home were | | | | trainability into its format and course layout. |
| threatened by a drive-by shooting, and in this | | | | The end product of Front Sight is not necessarily |
| moment he realized that although he had spent | | | | someone who can pass the Four Weapons Combat |
| several years firing guns and being an all-around gun | | | | Master test, though one could train that far if they |
| enthusiast, he had no actual training on how to use a | | | | so desired. The intent of Front Sight and Dr. Piazza is |
| firearm to protect his life, or the lives of his loved | | | | to train Americans in what truly is an art form: |
| ones. | | | | firearms. Front Sight and Dr. Piazza are trying to |
| This started Dr. Piazza on a mission to train himself | | | | honor what the Founding Fathers clearly intended for |
| fully on how to become a master of the use of | | | | America: a responsible, capable, trained militia as laid |
| firearms. Through his training regimen, he came | | | | out in the Second Amendment. The right to bear |
| across a nigh-unheard of classification: Four Weapons | | | | arms and train in their responsible, effective use is |
| Combat Master. Published in 1981, it is a test which | | | | clearly protected in America, and Dr. Piazza desires |
| before 1993 only one man had ever successfully | | | | that for all Americans. |