Combat shooting
Combat shooting is combat-oriented shooting training with handguns .
Accordingly, the training in combat shooting goes far beyond ordinary weapons or shooting training, it also includes tactical elements (situation assessment, terrain utilization, behavior in combat, special legal issues, etc.), reaction training, rapid pulling, etc. Combat shooting can be both attack shooting and Be defensive shooting.
Offensive and defensive combat shooting
The most obvious example of offensive combat shooting is infantry combat training, but also the training of special police forces in the federal and state levels. Offensive combat shooting includes not only the use of long weapons with high firepower but also the use of modern combat, communication and command equipment.
Defensive combat shooting limits the use of weapons to the defense of (surprising) attacks in the context of self-defense, emergency aid and protective / criminal police duties. For this reason, concealed handguns such as pistols or revolvers are basic weapons for defensive shooting for most authorized gun carriers.
Shooting ranges
Combat targets are targets with human silhouettes. Targets can also be projected onto the target wall in a shooting theater as part of appropriate scenes. It is also mostly typical of combat shooting that shooting is timed, the targets are only presented for a certain time or the shots have to be fired within a certain time. Further training steps include presenting targets with "good guys" (bystanders or hostages) who must not be shot at and "bad guys" (criminals) who have to be hit.
Legal
The current version of the German Weapons Act restricts education and training in combat shooting (apart from official weapons carriers such as soldiers, police officers, law enforcement officers and customs officers) to the very small group of holders of a weapons license (a few thousand people nationwide). Combat shooting, however, is expressly prohibited for other legal gun owners (sport shooters, gun collectors, hunters). For this reason, combat shooting, at least in the form of attack shooting, is also prohibited on public shooting ranges. In Germany there are providers of courses to learn how to shoot defensive weapons for gun owners belonging to the groups mentioned.
Demarcation
A distinction must be made between combat shooting and so-called "practical" or "dynamic" shooting ( IPSC ), which is practiced as a sport and for which an international umbrella organization and national shooting associations exist. In IPSC shooting, which is represented in Germany by the Bund Deutscher Sportschützen (BDS), the participant completes a time-limited course made of transparent screens in which cardboard or metal targets are shot. The sports regulations of the BDS for IPSC shooting make it clear by specifying the sequence, the course design, the selection of targets and the safety regulations that confusion with combat shooting is impossible. This was certified by the Federal Office of Administration as part of the approval of the sports regulations of the BDS.
Even the parts in the pistol disciplines of the German Shooting Federation (on a turntable that is only visible for a few seconds) and shooting according to the rules of the DJV have nothing to do with combat shooting.