{"id":4376,"date":"2011-04-20T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2011-03-22T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:34:53","slug":"front-sight-mail-bag-21-years-in-firearms-instruction-uses-dry-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2011\/04\/20\/front-sight-mail-bag-21-years-in-firearms-instruction-uses-dry-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mail Bag: 21 Years in Firearms Instruction &#8211; Uses Dry Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your newsletters. I am a firearms instructor for my police department and have been an instructor since 1990.\u00a0 The department that I work for is small, 8 person, and I have limited funds to work with.<\/p>\n<p>But I have been reading your training tips and completely agree with the dry firing technique. I have done that for years and it is good to see someone with your expertise using it too.\u00a0 I am slowly incorporating into my program here.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sad fact, but a lot of new officers have very little to no firearms experience before becoming police officers. I have that in my department. I am fortunate that I was raised around firearms and have military and a SWAT background. However, as soon as I put together the funds, I do plan on attending one of your courses. Thank your for what you are doing for American&#8217;s and for our Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nDon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, Thank you for your newsletters. I am a firearms instructor for my police department and have been an instructor since 1990.\u00a0 The department that I work for is small, 8 person, and I have limited funds to work with. But I have been reading your training tips and completely agree with the dry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,41],"tags":[26,9,2982,260,232,851,57,2983,4790,1134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}