De Danske Skytteforeninger DDS (The Danish Shooting Associations) founded in 1862 was
Denmark
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's oldest sports organization until it was merged with
Danske Gymnastik- & Idrætsforeninger
'DGI'' (DGI, literally ''Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations'') is a Danish association of sports clubs which includes 6,600 local sports clubs and 1.6 million athletes. DGI was formed in November 1992 as a merger of "De Danske Gymnastik- ...
1 January 2013. After the merger DDS was split in two with ''DGI Skydning'' (''DGI Shooting'') administering competitions, weapons registration, political and organizational issues, while ''Skydebaneforeningen Danmark'' (''Shooting Range Association of Denmark'') handles advice and financial support to clubs and shooting ranges.
The headquarters are in
Vingsted, between
Vejle
Vejle () is a city in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality ('' kommune'') and the R ...
and
Billund, and has one of Northern Europe's largest and most comprehensive shooting ranges. In 1994 a major sports event (Landsstaevne) was held in Svenborg with over 40,000 participants. These included shooters from the DDS and The British Schools Shooting team (BSSRA) who took part in a Juniors shooting match. Matches between the two organisations took place each year at Bisley and every two years in Denmark.
The Danish shooting movement began 19 January 1861 with posts by Captain H. P.V. Mønster in the newspaper
Fædrelandet ("Fatherland") where he agitated for establishing rifle clubs inspired by what had similarly been done by the
National Rifle Association
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is a gun rights advocacy group based in the United States. Founded in 1871 to advance rifle marksmanship, the modern NRA has become a prominent Gun politics in the United States, gun rights ...
in the United Kingdom. The article was well received, and already 10 February 1861 the ''Centralcomitéen til oprettelse af skytteforeninger'' was founded in a meeting in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
. The association De Danske Skytteforeninger was subsequently founded in 1862.
Rigsarkivet, Arkivserie: Skyttefester og landsstævner (1862 - 1950), Arkivskaber: De Danske Skytte-, Gymnastik- og Idrætsforeninger (1862-1950)
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See also
* Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations
'DGI'' (DGI, literally ''Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations'') is a Danish association of sports clubs which includes 6,600 local sports clubs and 1.6 million athletes. DGI was formed in November 1992 as a merger of "De Danske Gymnastik- o ...
(DGI)
* Frivilliga Skytterörelsen Frivilliga Skytterörelsen (FSR) (lit. ''Voluntary Shooting Movement''), formerly known as ''Frivilliga Skytteväsendet,'' was a Swedish shooting sport association and a voluntary defense organization. They considered themselves as in 1860 by the s ...
* Det frivillige Skyttervesen
Det frivillige Skyttervesen (DFS) (), known in English as the National Rifle Association of Norway, and by DFS themselves as the Norwegian Civilian Marksmanship Association since 2020, is a civilian marksmanship association in Norway and the lar ...
References
Sports organizations of Denmark
Shooting sports organizations
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