Ignatius Piazza - The Man With The Know-How
Reading an article like the one listed in Small Arms Review makes one want to shake Dr. Ignatius Piazza's hand personally. The article referenced is a report on Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, currently the nation's only "gun town". Front Sight the town is anchored by Front Sight the shooting school, with 20 state-of-the-art firing ranges open 24 hours a day to residents and students, along with a five-story urban tactics training tower, hundreds of yards of underground training areas for drilling in low-light; rescue; and close-quarter conditions, a 12,000 square foot gymnasium for Front Sight's extensive retinue of open-hand self defense training courses, and also an airstrip for the jets of Front Sight's VIPs – celebrities, personalities, Fortune 500 executives and politicians.A fully functional gated community, complete with a K-12 school, grocery store and full amenities is what Dr. Ignatius Piazza has in mind for his $25 million project based near Las Vegas, Nevada. The article in Small Arms Review describes everything about Front Sight, the attitude, the instructors, even the living arrangements at the nearby town of Pahrump (which attendees of all of Front Sight's courses need to arrange for themselves).
According to the writer, Dr. Piazza spoke about his reasoning for starting a gun training facility like Front Sight: "A chiropractor by training, Dr. Piazza, a native Californian, developed his avid interest in arms not through law enforcement or military experience, but rather after, 'a group of anti-socials drove through (his) quiet neighborhood and blasted away at everything representing the fruits of a decent work ethic,' in 1988."
Faced with the shock that he didn't know how to defend himself even though he'd fired guns many times, Dr. Piazza realized further that others were in the same boat. So he set years of his life aside getting expert and master training of all sorts of firearms and self defense training. After many years, Front Sight was the colossal production it is today, training more students annually than all other shooting schools in America combined.
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