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The United States Practical Shooting Association, or USPSA, is the national governing body of practical shooting in the United States, and is the US Region of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC). Its over 25,000 active members,〔USPSA Membership Database Summary http://uspsa.org/cgi-bin/db_class_summary.cgi〕 and over 400 affiliated clubs, make USPSA the largest competitive pistol shooting organization in the United States and the largest region within IPSC. USPSA publishes a member magazine called ''Front Sight'' six times a year. ==History== IPSC was formed in 1976 at a meeting in Columbia, Missouri, led by the late Jeff Cooper.〔Columbia Conference Minutes http://www.uspsa.org/document_library/IPSC%201976%20Columbia%20Conference%20Minutes.pdf〕 It was here that the sport of Practical Shooting was formally established after years of independent efforts around the country to build upon the handgun skills and training for self-defense. The early days of the sport can be traced back to the 1950s and the quick draw “leather slap” competitions that grew out of America's love affair with the TV westerns of that era. In 1984 USPSA was incorporated as the US Region of IPSC. Practical Shooting challenged the then accepted standards of technique, training practices and equipment. Its early pioneers developed scenario-based competitions to accurately measure the effectiveness of their own shooting techniques and equipment. The rapid shooting on-the-move style of Practical Shooting gave birth to the term “Run and Gun” so commonly used today to describe the sport. For more than 30 years the sport has served as the test bed for new products and the unofficial R&D for the firearms industry. With some competitors annually shooting in excess of 100,000 rounds, no other venue offers a better in-service assessment of a firearm’s performance or the brutal gauntlet of high-level competition through which a gun must survive to be declared reliable. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Practical Shooting Association」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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