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The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities

The WFSA Mission

The world is changing, and the traditions of hunting and sport shooting are not immune to the shifting tides of the global political environment.

The Forum is an educational and scientific association, founded in 1997 by over two dozen existing associations and organizations. Our member organizations represent a substantial portion of the sport shooting community. The WFSA is a pro-active advocacy organization, working in concert with international bodies, national governments and regulatory authorities, for the worldwide promotion and preservation of sport shooting activities. Chartered under Belgian law, the World Forum has a noble purpose: to further the study, preservation, promotion and protection of sport shooting activities on every continent. A passion to preserve for future generations our cherished heritage has fostered this.

The WFSA holds its Annual General Meeting in March each year at Nuremberg, Germany at the Internationale Waffen Ausstellung (IWA), held in NürnbergMesse. This is the premier meeting-place in Europe which brings together the whole of the world’s sport shooting family.

Guiding Principles of the WFSA

• The Forum is global in character.


• The Forum is a constructive, active organization that, in the spirit of goodwill and cooperation, offers decision makers worldwide information, solutions and alternatives to problems and questions of common interest.


• The Forum is open and encourages the exchange of information and views among all interested parties.


• The Forum is dependent on and draws upon the substance, expertise and wisdom of its member associations and organizations. Collectively, they represent a substantial portion of the sport shooting community.


• The Forum's role is limited in scope and designed to complement the ongoing activities of its member associations and organizations.


• The Forum devotes itself to addressing the problems and questions of common interest.


• The Forum expresses itself in the consensus views of its members.


• The Forum endeavours to involve as many groups as possible which are active in hunting and sport shooting activities.


• The Forum seeks to be a respected, credible international organization conveying the views of all sectors of the sport shooting community.

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