International Practical Shooting Confederation
In May 1976 Jeff Cooper was present at the conference that founded the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) and served as the first IPSC president. When founded, IPSC reflected the practical focus on self-defense that the SWCPL and the Modern Technique had addressed, but in subsequent decades IPSC drifted from practical pistol shooting toward pistol shooting games and lost its relevance to self-defense.
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