Ignatius Piazza

Shotgun Training Just as Important as Any Other Aspect, Say Firearms Experts

Shotgun training is certainly not something that one would suspect the average citizen receives on a regular basis. Front Sight Firearms Training Institute and its founder and director, Dr. Ignatius Piazza, know otherwise, but the funny thing is that not many Americans do. But the fact of the matter on gun training and even shotgun training specifically is that many average Americans do receive it regularly. Dr. Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight know that all the students who pass through Front Sight are normal, run-of-the-mill men and women who just want to keep themselves and their family members safe.

Featured recently in Gun World magazine for his idea of turning Front Sight into the world's first gun town, Dr. Ignatius Piazza explains at many of his lessons that firearms training is not for who the average American thinks it's for. Your average American no doubt conceives of a shooting school in the middle of the Las Vegas desert as a haven for neo-NAZIs, skinheads, mullet-boasting, shotgun-toting rednecks and other undesirables. But Dr. Ignatius Piazza can't stress enough how much the opposite is true. He knows from personal experience that everyone who makes it to Front Sight is completely normal.

Most of the gun training school's students are private citizens in the educated class: doctors, lawyers, contractors, teachers, students, nuclear medicine researchers, etc. One would be amazed at how many middle-class Americans are hungering for firearms training - from something as directly applicable as defensive handgun training to something perhaps slightly more esoteric, shotgun training - all across the nation.

While Dr. Ignatius Piazza is rather surprised by it, he's also more than willing to accommodate. Front Sight already trains more students every year than all other shooting schools in the nation combined, so they're used to having full student rosters and full classes - though not at the expense of quality. Front Sight draws the line when the classes would have more than three or four students per instructor - guaranteeing that all students receive excellent gun training.