Ignatius Piazza

Front Sight Firearms Training Institute Says: Get Handgun Training

Front Sight Firearms Training Institute has created a niche for itself: it is America's voice insofar as handgun training is concerned. Actually, it doesn't stop at handgun training, Front Sight's firearms training is extensive, and includes shotgun training, rifle training, armed and unarmed self defense training, and even submachine gun training. Front Sight is the nation's largest gun training facility, and its statistics prove it to be the finest in the nation in addition to that. Front Sight trains more students annually than all other shooting schools in America combined. With a pedigree like that, one can understand why their word is canon when it comes to gun training.

Recently, handgun training percentages have jumped. Americans from all walks of life are getting handgun training from local shooting ranges and also from professional shooting schools, like Front Sight. Founder and director of Front Sight, Dr. Ignatius Piazza, a former California chiropractor, attributes the increase in American interest in handgun training to a number of factors. Violent crime is on the rise, and Americans may be realizing that the best way to stay safe is to be trained and armed. With the war on terror in full swing, Americans may be realizing that the safest homefront is the most trained homefront. And perhaps there was a realization much like the one Dr. Piazza was confronted with.

Several years ago, Dr. Piazza did not have any professional firearms training. He was a chiropractor who frequented the firing range. But then his neighborhood was made the target of a random drive-by shooting. Enraged, and worried that something could have happened to his family or himself if the drive-by had become a home invasion, Dr. Piazza got all the handgun training, shotgun training and rifle training he could. So he knows, for whatever reason it is that Americans are reaching for handgun training, they are - and he and Front Sight are ready to deliver.


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