Front Sight Mail Bag: Response to Gun Training Reports – Humbling Experience

Dr. Piazza,

This last report really hit home. When I was about 16 I had the opportunity to train on the sheriff’s range as my father was a sheriff’s deputy and the range owner/range master a friend. I had gone through enough of the training and was doing well enough that the range master, seeing how well I was doing at…

June 14th, 2009 Continue Reading: Front Sight Mail Bag: Response to Gun Training Reports – Humbling Experience

Front Sight Mail Bag: On the Use of Deadly Force

Dr. Piazza,

I just wanted to send you a note saying this was by far one of the best lectures on understanding the consequenses of deadly force. As a former military man, and private security officer, I have read or sat through many of these. Yours was refreshing in that it stated an individual must decide well beforehand how much force…

June 12th, 2009 Continue Reading: Front Sight Mail Bag: On the Use of Deadly Force

Ignatius Piazza Guarantees Front Sight

Last Saturday, in Springfield, a man fired two rounds from his shotgun at the suspects of a home invasion. All of the men knew each other, so police are assuming this was a targeted and planned attack. There are a lot of crimes out there that are committed by people you do not know. However, more times than one might…

June 11th, 2009 Continue Reading: Ignatius Piazza Guarantees Front Sight

Save Your Life (and Your Car) With Gun Training and Knife Training from Front Sight!

In Burbank, California, a teenage girl was carjacked by a man who had come up to her car, asking for her help. He said he was running from a gang who had previously attacked him, and needed her help to escape. The teenager, wanting to help, drove him a few miles away, where he pulled a knife on her. She…

June 9th, 2009 Continue Reading: Save Your Life (and Your Car) With Gun Training and Knife Training from Front Sight!

Ignatius Piazza: How to Get Charged with Murder…

In a gunfight, there is a very well defined line between justifiable use of deadly force and murder.

Unfortunately, in the heat of the gun battle you are only going to be half as good and half as smart as you are on your best training day, simply from the stress of a lethal encounter.

As a result, the well-defined line between…

June 1st, 2009 Continue Reading: Ignatius Piazza: How to Get Charged with Murder…

Ignatius Piazza: Memorial Day Thank You for All Veterans and Their Families

Most of you do not know that a decorated WWII Marine who saw action on the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima provided the single greatest influence in shaping my interest in firearms.

It can be said with total certainty that had he not made the effort to introduce me to the importance of weapons in the hands of responsible…

May 25th, 2009 Continue Reading: Ignatius Piazza: Memorial Day Thank You for All Veterans and Their Families