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