World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities

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WSFA (World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities)
founding	June 23, 1996
place	Brussels
president	Hans-Herbert Keusgen
Members	35 member organizations
Website	www.wfsa.net

The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities (WFSA) is an association of 35 hunting , shooting and gun collecting associations as well as various groups from the arms trade and industry . The WFSA is one of the few recognized non-governmental organizations that has been invited to speak at all five UN conferences on small arms .

Goal setting

According to the company, the main goal is to support scientific studies, to maintain, promote and protect shooting sports activities on all continents.

profile

Four sub-committees carry out the work of the WFSA:

Legislative Sub-Committee

This committee contributed to all five UN small arms conferences ( United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects ). It develops solutions for the marking and identification of firearms in order to prevent the illegal arms trade. It tries to find an international definition of firearms and antique weapons in order to separate legal from illegal possession .

Image Sub-Committee

This committee is supposed to convey and publicize the positive aspect of shooting. For this reason, an ambassador is elected annually to represent this. The ambassadors include a. Chiara Cainero , Superindent Colin Greenwood, Wilbur Smith , Sir Jackie Stewart , Garry Breitkreuz (Member of Parliament CA) and Ugo Gussali Beretta .

Environment Sub-Committee

This committee deals with environmental protection , the conservation of biodiversity , research into the consequences of shooting with lead ammunition in the area and on the shooting ranges and monitors international treaties that can affect hunting and shooting sports and biological diversity.

Statistics Sub-Committee

This committee compiles information that it claims to contain “statistical myths and pseudo-statistical facts” that are directed against hunters and shooters. In addition, data is sought that should show the actual number of hunters and shooters, as well as statistics that should prove the economic advantage of hunters and shooters.

Club history

Manufacturers of hunting and sporting weapons, gun rights organizations, dealers, rifle and hunting associations meet annually at the International Arms Exhibition (IWA) in Nuremberg. In 1996 they initiated the establishment of the umbrella organization WFSA.

Since 2002 the WFSA has been an NGO with consultant status at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations ( ECOSOC ). Since 2001, the WFSA, like the NGO International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), has been invited to all UN small arms conferences with speeches and participates in the national and international preparations (PrepCom) for the next conference.

The WFSA strives for a spin-off of private firearms from the definition of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW).

With 100 million members in the affiliated organizations, the WFSA has become the international gun lobby for private gun ownership.

Members

• Asociacion Armera (Spain)
• AECAC - The European Association of civil commerce of weapons
• AFEMS - Association of European Manufacturers of Sporting Ammunition - founding member with voting rights
• AMACS - Association of Maltese Arms Collectors Shooters (Malta)
• ANPAM - Associazione Nazionale Produttori Armi e Munizioni (Italy) - Founding member and European secretariat
• BDMP eV - Association of Military and Police Riflemen eV (Germany) - founding member with voting rights
• BDS - Bund Deutscher Sportschützen 1975 eV - full member
• BSSC - British Shooting Sports Council (Great Britain) - founding member with voting rights
• BVS - Bundesverband Schießstätten eV (Germany)
• CAB - Consorzio Armaioli Bresciani
• CILA - Canadian Institute for Legislative Action (Canada)
• COLFO - Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (New Zealand)
• CONSERVATION FORCE
• DAAS - The Danish Arms and Amour Society (Denmark)
• DSB - Deutscher Schützenbund (Germany)
• DSSA - Danish Sport Shooters Association (Denmark)
• ESC - European Shooting Confederation
• ESFAM
• FACE - Federation of Associations for Hunting & Conservation of the EU - founding member
• FAIR TRADE GROUP - Firearms Importers Roundtable Trade Group
• FESAC - Foundation of European Societies of Arms Collectors
• Finnish Arms Trade Association (Finland)
• FITAV - Federazione Italiana Tiro a Volo (Italy)
• FITDS - Federazione Italiana Tiro Dinamico Sportivo (Italy)
• FWR - Forum Waffenrecht (Germany) - founding member with voting rights
• FPTAC - Federaçào Portuguesa de Tiro com Armasde Caça (Portugal)
• FSSF - Finnish Shooting Sport Federation (Finland)
• IEACS - Institut Europeen des Armes de Chasse et de Sport (France)
• JSM - Association of Manufacturers of Hunting Sporting Arms and Ammunition (Germany)
• NFA - Canada's National Firearms Association (Canada)
• NMLRA - National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (USA and Canada)
• NRA - National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action (USA) - founding member with voting rights
• NRAN - National Rifle Association of Norway
• NSSF - National Shooting Sports Foundation
• pro TELL (Switzerland)
• SAAMA (Japan)
• SAAMI - Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (USA) - founding member with voting rights
• SAF - Second Amendment Foundation (USA) - member since 2006
• SAGA - South African Gunowners' Association (South Africa) - founding member with voting rights
• SCI - Safari Club International
• SSAA - Sporting Shooters' Association of Australia Inc. (Australia) - founding member with voting rights
• SVENSKT FORUM
• VSK - Vlaamse Schutterskonfederatie
• VAPENUNIE / UNION ARMES
• WA1500 - World Association 1500

literature

• Denise Garcia: Small Arms & Security: New Emerging International Norms (Contemporary Security Studies) . Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-77051-4 .
• Jutta Joachim, Birgit Locher: Transnational Activism in the UN and EU: A Comparative Study . Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-44685-3 .
• Rachel Stohl, Suzette Grillot: The International Arms Trade . John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7456-4153-9 .
• Wayne LaPierre: The Global War on Your Guns: Inside the UN Plan To Destroy the Bill of Rights . Thomas Nelson, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59555-041-5 .

Web links

• Official website
• NGOs and the small arms issue (PDF; 140 kB) by Peter Batchelor on UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) - How do the NGOs WFSA and IANSA affect government decisions
• Supporters of the WFSA EEBH Symposium (PDF; 185 kB) Short biographies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNODC ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Details of the WFSA on the NGO list of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime  
2. ↑ Legislative Sub-Committee ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the WFSA homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010 
3. ↑ Marking, Record-keeping, and Tracing ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Small Arms Survey website - accessed September 14, 2010  
4. ↑ Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on OSCE.org PDF file (109 KB)  
5. ↑ WFSA in the UN documents on the UN homepage - viewed on September 12, 2010
6. ↑ WFSA at the UN Small Arms Conference 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Contributions in English on the WFSA homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010 
7. ↑ WFSA at the UN Small Arms Conference 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Forum Gun Law: Short version in German - accessed on September 12, 2010  
8. ↑ Image Sub-Committee ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the WFSA homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010 
9. ↑ Colin Greenwood ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Expertsearch - accessed September 12, 2010 
10. ↑ Colin Greenwood's Memorandum on UK Parliament - accessed September 12, 2010
11. ↑ Environment Sub-Committee ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the WFSA homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010 
12. ↑ Experts assess benefits of hunting ( memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on New ERA (Namibian newspaper) on the occasion of the WFSA Symposium 2009 in Namibia - viewed on September 12, 2010
13. ↑ To preserve biodiversity, united forces are necessary 57th General Assembly of the International Council for the Conservation of Game and Hunting (CIC) in May 2010 - viewed on September 12, 2010
14. ↑ Strategy plan for hunting ammunition in Rome 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the FACE homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010  
15. ↑ Statistics Sub-Committee ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the WFSA homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010 
16. ^ IWA official homepage - viewed on November 8, 2010
17. ↑ List NGO in Consultative Status with ECOSOC at City University London - accessed on September 17, 2010
18. ↑ Prep-Com 2006 ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. one-page short version on IANSA.org, PDF file, page 6 (338 KB)  
19. ↑ UN Press Release DC / 2792 (2001) - accessed September 17, 2010
20. ↑ ANPAN ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ BSSC ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. British Shooting Sports Council Annual Report 2009, PDF file (186 KB)  
22. ↑ WFSA presentation to the COLFO AGM April 26, 2009 on COLFO homepage - accessed September 12, 2010
23. ↑ Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed September 12, 2010  
24. ↑ National Firearms Association  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Member of the WFSA since 2003 - accessed September 12, 2010  
25. ↑ NRA and the UN Arms Trade Treaty ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. NRA homepage - viewed September 12th 
26. ↑ NSSF via WFSA on the National Shooting Sports Foundation website - accessed September 12, 2010
27. ^ Second Amendment Foundation ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release 2007 - accessed on September 12, 2010  
28. ↑ South African Gunowners' Association ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bulletin - accessed September 12, 2010  
29. ↑ Pro- and anti-gun lobbies ( memento of the original from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on SSAA homepage - accessed on September 12, 2010 
30. ↑ Members ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.