Swiss Shooting Association

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Swiss Shooting
Federation Fédération sportive suisse de tir ( French )
Federatione sportiva svizzera di tiro ( Italian )
Founded 1824
Place of foundation Zurich
president Luca Filippini
societies approx. 2,600
Members approx. 130,000
Association headquarters Lidostrasse 6
6006 Lucerne
Official languages) German, French, Italian
Homepage www.swissshooting.ch

The Swiss Shooting Association (SSV) is the umbrella organization for Swiss shooters . It was created in 2001 from the merger of the Swiss Shooting Association (SSV, founded in Aarau in 1824) with the Swiss Sport Shooting Association (SSSV) and the Swiss Workers' Rifle Federation (SASB) . Since the reorganization in 2011, the association has been focusing more on sport shooting , which in certain disciplines is also an Olympic sport .

With around 130,000 members, including 56,000 licensed shooters, the SSV is the fourth largest sports association in Switzerland and represents around 2,600 clubs and 35 member associations.

structure

The Swiss Shooting Association looks after the athletes in the following disciplines:

  • Rifle 300/50/10 meters
  • Gun 50/25/10 meters

The association is strategically managed by a board of directors. Operational management is carried out by the office in the Haus der Schützen in Lucerne with the competence centers for top-class and popular sports , training / young talent, communication and finance. The president is Luca Filippini , the managing director is Beat Hunziker.

The SSV has been a member of Swiss Olympic since 1941 . He is the Swiss contact person for the International Sport Shooting Federation and the European Shooting Confederation .

Events

Field shooting

Among other things, the SSV organizes the annual field shooting , the largest shooting event in the world with around 135,000 participants at decentralized locations, which has been taking place in early summer for over 130 years.

The development of field shooting in the 20th century was largely related to that of mandatory shooting by the Swiss Army . The annual target shooting for teams was introduced for the first time in 1850, although the shooting results were generally unsatisfactory ("of the shots fired at the average distance of 300 m at a man figure only 15% hit and 85% went by"). Based on this knowledge, mandatory off-duty shooting was organized on the Twannberg in the canton of Bern in 1872 . Since 1879 there has been evidence of regular cantonal field shooting in the cantons of Bern and Solothurn .

Over the years, however, field shooting only gained a foothold in a few cantons. With the financial support of the SSV from 1899 and the establishment of nationwide rules from the turn of the century, field shooting gradually gained acceptance. From 1919, in addition to rifle field shooting, pistol field shooting (at shorter distances) was also carried out, and from 1926 all cantons of that time took part in field shooting for the first time. Field shooting has been carried out annually since 1940.

Federal shooting festival

The SSV is also responsible for the Federal Shooting Festival, which is currently held in five-year steps. Past festivals took place in the following locations:

  • 1834 Zurich
  • 1838 St. Gallen
  • 1843 Chur
  • 1849 Aarau
  • 1861 Stans
  • 1867 Schwyz
  • 1874 St. Gallen
  • 1885 Bern Kirchenfeld
  • 1890 Frauenfeld
  • 1901 Lucerne
  • 1904 St. Gallen
  • 1907 Zurich
  • 1910 Bern Wankdorffeld
  • 1924 Aarau
  • 1929 Bellinzona
  • 1947 Chur
  • 1954 Lausanne
  • 1958 Biel
  • 1963 Zurich
  • 1969 Thun
  • 1979 Lucerne
  • 1985 Chur
  • 1990 Winterthur
  • 1995 Thun
  • 2000 Bière
  • 2005 Frauenfeld
  • 2010 Aarau
  • 2015 raron

Association communication

The SSV is the publisher of the Schiessen Schweiz magazine with its own editorial team, which is integrated into the communications department.

Since the reorganization of the SSV in 2011, the magazine Schiessen Schweiz has appeared monthly in glossy magazine form and, in addition to technical information, results and reports from the shooting industry, also included a larger interview with celebrities from outside the shooting sport. It was published in three languages ​​in one issue.

Communication via the Internet was strengthened at the beginning of 2015, so that Schiessen Schweiz is still published quarterly and in three national languages. Primary communication now takes place via newsletters and social media. The magazine is printed since 2011 in St. Gallen in the Tagblatt Medien AG .

In addition, the SSV also operates the updated website with results and information from the association, the sub-associations and the individual clubs.

Interest group shooting Switzerland

The SSV also coordinates the activities of the Interest Group Shooting Switzerland (IGS) . This is a loose association of associations and organizations which, according to their own statements, “have committed themselves to Swiss shooting sports and want to maintain and promote it”. In addition to the SSV, these include the Federal Crossbowmen Association , JagdSchweiz and Pro Tell .

The IGS is primarily involved in referendums relating to the Swiss Weapons Act . In 2009 she fought the popular initiative “For protection against armed violence” , and in 2019 the implementation of the EU Weapons Directive in Swiss weapons law .

According to its own figures, the IGS represents associations with a total of “almost 200,000 members”. The IGS is also chaired by Luca Filippini, President of the SSV.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facts & Figures. In: swissshooting.ch. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b The referendum on the Arms Act is coming. In: ipsc.ch. September 28, 2018, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Opinion of the “Interest Group Shooting Switzerland” (IGS) on the submission of the signatures for the “People's Initiative for Protection against Armed Violence”. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b press release. IGS Interest Group Shooting Switzerland, accessed on July 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Surber: The template for gun law at a glance. In: nzz.ch. May 9, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ A defeat, but not a surrender. In: swissshooting.ch. May 19, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .