The Association of Maltese Arms Collectors and Shooters (AMACS) is a
Maltese umbrella association for
sport shooting
Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and Skill, skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to specta ...
and arms collectors.
AMACS is Malta's representative for the international shooting organizations
Federation of European Societies of Arms Collectors
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(FESAC),
World Field Target Federation (WFTF),
International Practical Shooting Confederation
The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's largest shooting sport association, and the largest and oldest within practical shooting. Founded in 1976, the IPSC nowadays affiliates over 100 regions from Africa, America ...
(IPSC),
World Crossbow Shooting Association (WCSA) and the
International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union
The International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union (IMSSU) is the international organization for metallic silhouette shooting, which was founded in 1992 in response to the fact that rules for metallic silhouette shooting started to diverge arou ...
(IMSSU).
See also
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List of shooting sports organizations
This is a list of national and international shooting sports organizations who promote sport shooting to civilian sport shooters, hunters, police, military and/or military reservists.
International governing bodies
* Amateur Trapshooting As ...
Other umbrella organizations for shooting
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French Shooting Federation
The French Shooting Federation (FFTir), ''French'' Fédération Française de Tir, is the umbrella organization for sport shooting in France. It was founded in its current form in 1967, but has roots as far back as 1866.
FFTir is France's represen ...
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Finnish Shooting Sport Federation
The Finnish Shooting Sport Federation, ''Finnish'' Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto (SAL), was founded in 1919 and is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in Finland, representing many international shooting sport organizations in Finland.
SAL ...
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Hellenic Shooting Federation
The Hellenic Shooting Federation (HSF), Greek: Σκοπευτική Ομοσπονδία Ελλάδος, is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in Greece.
HSF is Greece's representative for the international shooting organizations Internat ...
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Monaco Shooting Federation
The Monaco Shooting Federation, ''Monégasque'' Fédération Monégasque de Tir is the Monacan association for shooting sport under the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) and ...
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Norwegian Shooting Association
Norges Skytterforbund (NSF), literally the Norwegian Shooting Association, is a Norwegian umbrella organization for shooting sports, and is internationally affiliated with the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF), Fédération Internatio ...
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Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation
The Royal Spanish Olympic Shooting Federation, ''Spanish'' Real Federación Española de Tiro Olímpico (RFETO), organizes all shooting sports in Spain and is amongst other a member of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), the ...
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Swiss Shooting Sport Federation
References
External links
Official homepage of the Association of Maltese Arms Collectors and Shooters
Regions of the International Practical Shooting Confederation
Sports organisations of Malta
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