Talk:International Shooting Sport Federation

Shooting positions

Is there a known reason why sitting is the only one of the basic four that is not used in any event ? Was it ever used? 213.149.62.70 (talk) 15:02, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Unclear passage

The article currently says:

On 17 July 1907, representatives of seven national shooting federations, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands met in Zurich, Switzerland, to formally establish L’Union Internationale des Fédérations et Associations nationals de Tir, International Union of National Shooting Federations and Associations in English. That meeting would be remembered as the first ISSF General Assembly. Daniel Mérillon, a French lawyer from Paris, was elected as the first ISSF President.

Following the desire of the first ISSF leaders to make their organization a world sport institution, more national federations joined L’Unione Internationale in the ensuing years: in 1912, 284 shooters coming from 16 different countries participated in the Games of the V Olympiad. In 1916, World War I caused the cancellation of the Olympic Games and every shooting international event, and under the influence of President Mérillon, the Union of National Shooting folded.

In 1920 President Mérillon invited representative of the previous members and from the countries established after the world war to come to a meeting in Paris on 16 April 1920, with the intent to renew ISSF activities.

I assume that "Union of National Shooting" is supposed to be the same organization as "L’Unione Internationale" mentioned in the previous sentence, but it's not clear, as "Union of National Shooting" would be an odd abbreviation for "International Union of National Shooting Federations and Associations". The way it reads now, it sounds like Mérillon encouraged a different shooting organization to go out of business during World War I. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Disciplines

I have added the Update template to the Disciplines and Olympic events section, since this is badly out of date. I am also of a mind however that the entire section should probably just be deleted since it is only duplicating (badly) the separate article ISSF shooting events, which includes all ISSF-recognised disciplines, including non-Olympic disciplines. Alternatively, replace it with links to ISSF shooting events and Discontinued ISSF shooting events and possibly just include a single paragraph explaining that of the recognised events, 15 are Olympic (split evenly between Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun) and that World Cups only include Olympic events whilst World Championships include a full programme. This seems more future-proof and requires less duplication of effort across articles when changes occur. Hemmers (talk) 15:35, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

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