แจ้งชาวสำนักพระฤาษี(PHOENIX IPSC TEAM) ตอนนี้ IPSC SAFE HOUSE บอร์ดของสำนักเกิดอิเล็คโทรนิคเออเร่อร์นิดหน่อยตั้งแต่เช้าวันนี้ คิดว่าไม่นานคงจะแก้ไขได้เรียบร้อย
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.......Practically speaking . . . Recent press reports have noted the campaign of the so-called sport of practical shooting (originally known as combat shooting) to achieve Olympic status. These stories follow the release of a report published by the Washington D.C.-based Violence Policy Center, titled "Gold Medal Gunslingers," portraying the efforts of gun enthusiasts and the firearms industry to give combat shooting the appearance of a mainstream competitive sport. Practical shooting features competitions (also known as run-n-guns) in which people armed with semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and large bore pistols shoot their way through target courses based on "real life" combat scenarios, such as a home invasion or hostage rescue. Targets suggest human figures with the highest points awarded for "head" and "heart" shots.
The International Practical Shooting Confederation is working to establish itself as a legitimate international sports federation, hoping to someday gain a spot for practical shooting on the Olympic program. The IOC acknowledges that IPSC has applied for status as a recognized international federation, but adds that the application is not being actively considered. The IOC also states that despite erroneous reports to the contrary, practical shooting will not, "in any way," be part of the Olympic program in Athens.
The VPC's (
www.vpc.org) detailed study traces the growth of practical shooting and its connection to the gun industry and pro-gun interest groups such as the National Rifle Association. The report argues that the sportification of combat shooting is a thinlyveiled attempt by these interests to promote gun culture, increase the worldwide market for firearms and counter gun control efforts. It also depicts attempts by combat shooters to draw children into gun culture and practical shooting. The VPC notes that Andrew Golden, the 11-year-old shooter in the 1998 Jonesboro, Arkansas massacre that left five dead and 11 wounded, had recently been introduced to the sport. Golden's father reportedly was the founder and head of the Jonesboro Practical Shooters Association.
The IPSC claims more than 50,000 members in more than 60 countries. Aside from its sporting aims, the IPSC also seems to have a political agenda. In 1998 the IPSC, along with the NRA and others, founded the World Forum on the Future of Sports Shooting Activities "to counteract the growing international gun control movement." More recently, IPSC announced plans to form the World Shooting Federation, designed to bring all shooting sports under a single umbrella, giving "all shooting sports, and subsequently the firearms and shooting industries, the clout we need to be taken seriously in the center stage of world politics." The IPSC was founded in 1976. Its first president was former U.S. Marine Corps officer Jeff Cooper, who now serves as honorary life chairman. Cooper, the editor-at-large of Guns & Ammo magazine and an NRA board member, is noted for his strident anti-government views. He also has some appalling opinions on gun violence. Writing in Guns & Ammo, in April 1991, Cooper stated, "the consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society . . . It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition."
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