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Interviewed by Jim McMahon

John Dockery is a successful jewelry store owner from the San Francisco Bay area of California, who just recently was put to the ultimate test with his Front Sight training.

In this interview, John provides us with his detailed, step-by-step actions and thought processes that he went through, while confronting at gunpoint a suspected robber in his jewelry store.

John, by the way, is a Front Sight Gold First Family Member. He was kind enough to allow me to interview him recently at his store.

FSR: What event or reason prompted you to search out firearms training?

John: The fact that…

Front Sight Resorts Interviews Student - Dr. Jeff Colon

Interviewed by Jim McMahon

Jeff Colon is a native of New York City. A successful chiropractor, he had a practice just outside of Manhattan for many years before he decided to move his family out to the rural life in central California’s hills near Monterey. Jeff was a wine maker for a while, but has since become a Deputy Sheriff, after a twist of fate caught his interest.

He is also a Front Sight Gold First Family Member, and so is his young son. In this interview, Jeff was kind enough…

Interviewed by Jim McMahon

Gary Graham has been a professional actor for 26 years. Remember Alien Nation from Fox Television? Gary was the human cop. Or recently on Jag, Captain Ingles, the captain of the aircraft carrier? That was Gary again. And even more recently, Soval, the Vulcan Ambassador from Star Trek Enterprise? Yes that is Gary too. In fact, Gary has appeared in a bunch of TV movies, in guest starring roles.

But Gary is also an avid Front Sight supporter, and a Silver First Family Member. Fact is, Gary has taken approximately 16 courses at Front Sight over…

Front Sight Resorts Interviews Student Cathleen Powers

Interviewed by Jim McMahon

Cathleen Powers recently came to Front Sight for her first course, Two-Day Defensive Handgun. Her interview is particularly enlightening, as she shares with us a seldom-explored viewpoint on what it is like to be married to a sworn peace officer, in this case an arson investigator, who daily puts himself in the line of danger investigating felony crimes.

This interview will definitely give you a newfound appreciation for those that stand behind our cops, and should be required reading for those that are married to one.

Aside from backing…

Interviewed by Jim McMahon

Russ Albro is a Sheriff Deputy for the County of Kern in California, one of twelve firearms instructors for the Department, and has been for the past eleven years. Russ is also a Gold Front Sight First Family Member, one of the early ones to sign on back in 1998.

Russ’ wife, Dana, is also a Sheriff Deputy for the County of Kern. And she also is a firearms instructor for the Department, as well as a Gold First Family Member.

Russ was kind enough to meet with me and share his well-founded insights into firearms…

Interviewed by Jim McMahon

Mike Allum, Front Sight Silver First Family Member, is a very ardent supporter of our Second Amendment rights. As a GOA Life Member and Patron Member of the NRA before discovering Front Sight, Mike holds no words back when it comes to championing our right to possess firearms. Mike is also a recently retired commercial pilot, having flown with United for 32 years, and before that flying in 233 combat missions in Vietnam and 400 aircraft carrier landings.

Mike has been a First Family Member for four years, along with his wife and sons, and believes…

Interviewed by Jim McMahonPrior to taking her first course at Front Sight, Janice was struck with the realization that she was vulnerable to victimization. Particularly by being a woman, and even more particularly by being seven months pregnant.

Despite owning a pistol, and having some familiarity with its usage, this did little to give her the security she was seeking. That is, until Janice found out about Front Sight, which literally, in her own words, transformed her life to a point where she has now taken charge.

Janice is a Front Sight First Family Member, and has been since 2001,…

Interviewed by Jim McMahon.

John Holbrook recently retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve, as well as from the City of Stockton, California, where he was a construction inspector for the city, and held a position on the School Board for the past seventeen years.

John is a Front Sight Silver First Family Member, and so is his wife. Together, they have done something for local law enforcement that is quite different. They have set up The Holbrook Family Law Enforcement Scholarship Fund, which donates Front Sight courses to law enforcement agencies in central California.

Come join me in this interview…

Welcome to the Front Sight Firearms Trainign Institute and Resort’s blog. This first post seems that it should probably start with the introduction that Ignatius Piazza himself gives to new students. This is a direct transcript from the live introduction given by Ignatius Piazza, Front Sight’s Founder and Director.

Front Sight’s Purpose and the Five Levels of Competence.

Thank you and welcome to Front Sight.

At this time what I would like to do is share with you Front Sight’s purpose and introduce the range masters that will be working with you this weekend.

Here at Front Sight we believe that in order to…