Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight in the News 

As legislators in Washington approve new gun-control measures, investors in Nevada are backing the world's first resort for firearms enthusiasts. More...

In the course of my duties here, I've come across residential enclaves that appeal specifically to golfers, airplane owners, horse lovers and even to Latvians. But a development that's in the works near Las Vegas surely sets a new standard for "specialty marketing." More...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Slid into a holster and nestled between manuals and maps, the .38 special was packed into pilot Don Worley's flight bag before every trip. Once inside the cockpit, Worley strapped the gun to his belt. He never had to use it, but he was ready. More...

(CNSNews.com) - The school shootings in California have prompted a Las Vegas-based firearms training institute to offer free gun training for school personnel. The Front Sight Firearms Training Institute said Wednesday they would offer free firearms training to any school administrator, teacher or full-time staff members. The school's director believes that training school personnel to use firearms will cut down school violence. More...

It is a semi lost area in the Nevada desert, USA. A group of men is getting ready to train with Uzi submachine guns. Right there, an hour away from Las Vegas, these people have developed something like a university of firearms where the philosophy is "in a gunfight, it is better to give than to receive" and where the subjects are "Defensive Handgun" or "Practical Rifle ", as an example. "Don't worry; you don't need to have previous experience at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute. More...

Gun City. The city of arms. Does this seem to you like a paradise? You need to see it. We will wait for you with a gun in our hand and open arms. Highway 160 in route to Los Angeles. You can't miss it. Right behind it, Las Vegas. You can drive very fast. There is very little traffic at dawn. Bring your gun along. You don't have one? I am not surprised. Europe is way behind. That obsession to disarm the population. We will fix it. No problem. We have an arsenal. We will loan you what you need. Guns. Rifles. Did I talk to you about our very successful intensive submachine guns training? More...

Ignatius Piazza, a 40-year-old former chiropractor, was welcoming us to his free one-day, submachine-gun seminar. He was telling us of a terrifying personal experience when his family home in California was strafed during a drive-by incident.
"I was just an average gun enthusiast with no military or law enforcement experience. One day a group of anti-socials drove through our quiet neighbourhood and blasted away at everything that represented the fruits of a decent work ethic," he said. More...

An American Airlines pilot has a plan to frighten terrorists out of the sky and to secure the nation's planes. Give the pilots guns. "I am firmly convinced that if at least one of the crew members on each of those airlines had been armed, we would not have four crashes, thousands of people dead and the economy taking a dive," Keith Shankland said. More...

Dr. Ignatius Piazza is a man with a dream. More than that, he's a man with a dream, a plan, and the resources to bring that dream to fruition. Piazza's dream is the town of Front Sight, Nevada, which is under construction at this moment. Situated on 550 acres about an hour's drive outside Las Vegas, Front Sight is a planned community like no other you have seen. Centered on the shooting sports and world-class facilities to enjoy them, Front Sight is modeled after today's exclusive golf resort communities. More...

We scribes get to do a lot of things free that are expensive or impossible for the general public. We get to test and shoot all manner of firearms and use cool gear on the cuff, so to speak. A recent week ending October was a good example of this. I got to take a free submachine class from the world-class instructors at Front Sight Firearms Training Institute in Nevada. Free use of a Front Sight-supplied fully auto Cobray M-1 1 9mmsubmachine gun with a two-stage suppressor-and all I had to provide were eye and ear protection and a hat. Spares of those items were on hand for those who left home without. Even the copious quantity of ammunition necessary to feed a gun with a 1,200 rpm cyclic rate was provided free as well, and, boy, did we shoot -- all under the watchful eyes of the dedicated Front Sight range staff. What makes this event unique-and interesting to you-is that the same deal I got is being offered to the Guns & Ammo reader. More...

We've known a little bit about Front Sight Firearms Training Institute and Dr. Ignatius Piazza for some time. But until we visited with Dr. Piazza, "Naish" for short, and toured the southern Nevada facility, we had no real idea what Front Sight was all about. More...

Two hundred shooters visit every weekend a sun dried patch of Nevada desert. They come here from all over USA to participate in courses at one of leading firearms training centers in this country. At the first view there's not much difference to be seen between Front Sight Firearms Training Institute and other establishments of this sort. More...

Due west of Vegas, in the rolling scrubland where myths about the shoot-'em-up American West linger like high plains sunsets, Ignatius Piazza's utopia, where everyone packs heat in peace, is becoming a reality. Ten miles before Pahrump, on Highway 160, in the shadow of the Spring Mountains, this self-styled entrepreneur is building Front Sight, the world's first gated community dedicated exclusively to guns and the people who like to shoot them. More...

You're standing in we middle or nowhere, cradling a loaded uzi. Joining you on a makeshift firing line are 12 strangers. They're just as armed as you are, and eager to open fire. The mind races. What If the guy next to me lost his job yesterday, the day after his wife left him for his best friend? And what about the gal down the line? She looks mighty tense; what If she's enraged over the violent state of the world and ready for payback? You can only speculate, because you don't know a thing about the mental state of this army. All you know is one careless move by one of 'em - or one crackpot who slipped past the background check - and you're a goner. More...

The jarring pang-pang-pang of gunfire has ceased, the shells have fallen, the dust has settled, and there sits in front of us 11 very Swiss-cheesed targets. More...

It wasn't the gambling or Hoover Dam that brought Richard Guerra Cabral from Los Angeles to Southern Nevada last weekend. It was the Uzis. On April 20, Cabral stood in the desert near the Clark and Nye county borders and held in his hands a forbidden fruit for many Californians -- a fully automatic Uzi 9 mm submachine gun capable of firing 600 rounds per minute. More...

No one lives on Second Amendment Drive yet. The "visionary" developer who planned to build a firearms-themed residential subdivision near Pahrump -- complete with SWAT towers and machine-gun ranges -- is battling to keep the project on track. But Front Sight Nevada founder Ignatius Piazza is not at war with gun-control advocates, neighbors or county planners. More...

IN THE desert near Las Vegas, a former chiropractor is spending $25 million (£15 million) on a holiday destination with a difference - a resort based on one of the world's largest non-military shooting ranges.
Front Sight, Nevada, aims to be heaven on earth for the committed gun enthusiast; it promises to be a variation on the theme of the golf resort but with sub-machinegun firing ranges and "360-degree live fire simulators" instead of fairways. The project has already been called "a shooter's Disneyland". More...

Firearms: A development called Front Sight would include, along with 1-acre home sites, 12 shooting ranges, a town armory and a web of tunnels for honing shooting skills. PAHRUMP, Nev.--Californians looking for a place to stash their assault weapons to avoid a Dec. 31 registration deadline can send them to Second Amendment Drive, out here in the Nevada desert. It's the main drag through Front Sight, a planned resort community where residents would have, not only the right, but practically a responsibility, to bear arms. More...

It's gun lovers' heaven - the first town in the world built specially for firearm fanatics.
In the exclusive, gated community called Front Sight in the Nevada desert, residents will freely blast away with everything from handguns to fully automatic weapons.
Instead of backyard pools, putting greens and hot tubs, owners will have shooting ranges, a SWAT assault tower and underground "tunnels of terror" for urban warfare and live fire training.
Lots alone cost $240,000 in this modern-day home on the shooting range and Phase I is almost sold out. More...

The sun was hot as Hades, but that hardly mattered to the 50 students gathered in the desert for Ignatius Piazza's free submachine gun training class. They came from as close as Pahrump, a half hour's drive west, on the California border, and as far as New England, lured to this vast sand pit for one day so that Mr. Piazza could pitch them his plans for the first resort community in the world for gun enthusiasts. More...

In the early morning, fifty miles southwest of Las Vegas, an illustrious group gathers in the middle of the desert. This is just a bunch of ordinary men wearing mirrored sunglasses. They are trying to learn more about a subject which - although potentially of critical importance - tends to be neglected in civilian life - how to shoot a sub-machine gun correctly. Included among those that have made the trip here are a wide variety of businessmen, a police trainer, a private detective and a Japanese student that is wearing a martial arts T-shirt depicting a masked anti-terrorist fighter at work. The Japanese student mentions that he is studying international relations. More...

Front Sight, Nev. -- On a hard-baked patch of Nevada desert, a Valhalla is taking shape for people who believe gun control is being able to hit your target. It's called Front Sight. More...

Pahrump, NV -- In the wake of the Santana High School shootings, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, which claims to be the world leader in providing intensified courses in the defensive use of firearms for private citizens, feels they have the answer to stopping further attacks on school children. Front Sight is offering free firearms training to any school administrator, teacher, or full time staff member designated as school Safety Monitors. Front Sight will accept for training up to three staff members from each school. Applicants must submit a letter requesting training on school district letterhead signed by the top school district official and designating the applicant as the school's Safety Monitor. More...

An unprecedented opportunity is now available to SARreaders. If you are reading this magazine, you must have an interest in fully-automatic firearms, and the nation's newest and soon-to-be finestfirearms training facility wants you to experience its training at the highest level first-hand. You are offered free tuition at an introductory submachinegun class. Formerly available only to graduates of its other training courses, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, located just outside Las Vegas,Nevada, is now extending the opportunity of attending its one day sub-gun class free! More...

Now I know how to stop a man in a gunfight before he kills me. I know how to stand, how to hold the gun to minimise the recoil, how to squeeze the trigger. I know to aim at 'centre mass', that is, the chest, two shots in quick succession. If my adversary doesn't go down, I aim at his head, at the bridge of his nose. Just one shot will do it. Bang! More...

FRONT SIGHT, Nev. - Australian journalist Gerard Ryle looks nauseous as he retreats from the firing line cradling his 9mmUzi. In the background: a paper silhouette of a person obliterated by a single pull of a trigger and 20 successive blasts. "I've never fired a gun in my life," Ryle mutters. "This is awful." Outsiders might relate. But most folks locking and loading here on a remote desert shooting range are gun enthusiasts eager to drive 48 miles west from as Vegas for a sure shot at trigger happiness. They are the "us" in the us-and-they sales pitch that distinguishes between Second Amendment advocates and adversaries, a wedge plied as a bridge to the nation's first gun-resort town. More...

Call it the new American dream. Or nightmare. A luxury gated community is planned for 550 dusty acres in the Nevada desert some 38 miles from Las Vegas. Front Sight, named for a gun barrel aiming sight, will resemble a golf community. But instead of being built around golf courses, homes will look out on 22 shooting ranges, a five-story SWAT tower, and a defensive-driving track. More...

FRONT SIGHT, Nev. - Australian journalist Gerard Ryle looks nauseated as he retreats from the firing line cradling a 9 mm Uzi. In the background, there's a paper silhouette of a person obliterated by a single pull of a trigger and 20 successive blasts. More...

With passage of the homeland security bill looking more likely, some pilots -- whom the bill would authorize to carry guns -- have begun pushing to get firearms training from the FBI or private schools. More...

Ignatius Piazza has a dream. He wants to build the safest community in the world -- a well-armed one on550 acres in Nevada. Called Front Sight, Piazza's dreamland serves primarily today as a Disneyland for shooting enthusiasts -- a site where he offers instruction on the use of firearms,including Uzi submachine guns. More...