{"id":26,"date":"2006-05-28T21:34:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T04:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignatiuspiazzafrontsight.com\/2006\/06\/02\/police-sergeant-armorer-commends-front-sight-for-outstanding-law-enforcement-scholarship-firearms-training\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T02:35:28","slug":"police-sergeant-armorer-commends-front-sight-for-outstanding-law-enforcement-scholarship-firearms-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2006\/05\/28\/police-sergeant-armorer-commends-front-sight-for-outstanding-law-enforcement-scholarship-firearms-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Armorer Commends Front Sight for Outstanding Law Enforcement Scholarship Firearms Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr Piazza:<\/p>\n<p>Our police department was fortunate enough to obtain a scholarship to your 4 day Defensive Handgun Course through one of your lifetime members. As our department Rangemaster\/Armorer, I was selected to attend the training, along with Officer Tim Bailey, our Assistant Rangemaster\/Armorer. Let me start out by saying, I have attended many POST certified training courses in my career. I can honestly say, without reservation, the training that I received at Front Sight was by far the best firearms training that I have ever received.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your staff was excellent. Our Rangemaster did an outstanding job. He was able to motivate his students in a very positive way. <\/strong>His presentation skills were excellent. He kept the class moving forward with military precision. All of the instructors did a great job, helping students with their presentation, grip, stance, trigger control etc.<\/p>\n<p>Your classroom instructor did an excellent job as well. His personal law enforcement insights and experiences were invaluable. He was able to share some of his hard-earned experience, in a very touching way. I helped him demonstrate a typical law enforcement response to a man-with-a-gun call. (I had way-too-much-fun!)<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"244\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/officer-bailey.jpg\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enclosed Photo: Officer Bailey and I encouraged some of our shooting partners &#038; they encouraged us! We had a great time with people we have never met. One person we met, &#8220;Darleen&#8221;, has taken the 4 day course four (4) times. &#8220;Dave&#8221; was shooting a revolver. The tall guy, &#8220;Scott&#8221; was a cowboy-action-shooter. I&#8217;m the guy in the camo-boonie hat. Officer Bailey is the guy w\/the black ball cap. Range Master Bishop was nice enough to take a photo with &#8220;The Wild-Bunch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to commend you and your professional staff for putting together such a unique training experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sgt. Steve Merchant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sgt. Steve Merchant<br \/>\nPatrol Sergeant\/Range Master\/Armorer<br \/>\nCity of Ripon Police Department<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr Piazza: Our police department was fortunate enough to obtain a scholarship to your 4 day Defensive Handgun Course through one of your lifetime members. As our department Rangemaster\/Armorer, I was selected to attend the training, along with Officer Tim Bailey, our Assistant Rangemaster\/Armorer. Let me start out by saying, I have attended many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1784,2872,2219,4269,1509,390,1320,204,1112,296,2416,4673,2867,3190,579,26,19,2054,4705,9,1674,2631,2512,187,107,430,3694,987,347,877,2712,1397,2874,568,2130,218,1363,185,2035,2605,2764,1464,3861,4049,4050,1037,232,851,2326,3374,3418,1433,128,832,1511,2652,346,31,2473,3353,2713,4165,339,69,1718,520,1778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}