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Training under the guidance of a qualified, certified instructor is the best way to build defensive handgun skills.
As the popularity of this sport grew, spurred on by the many TV westerns, some of the fledging anti-gun groups of the day petitioned the California Secretary of State’s office to change the name of the SWCPL. They objected to the use of the word “combat” in the name. The California legislature caved in to the offended group and informed Cooper that the name had to be changed. Cooper acquiesced and renamed his club the International Practical Shooters Confederation. Thus was born what we now refer to as IPSC!
With IPSC established and a bad taste in his mouth for California and its brand of politics, Cooper left the IPSC management group and took his combat shooting and movement tactics and moved to Arizona. There, Cooper started his American Pistol Institute (API), in Paulden, Arizona. He later changed the name to Gunsite Firearms Training Center. He devoted himself to training both civilians and law enforcement personnel in the techniques of personal protection that were formulated during his Big Bear shooting days. At Gunsite, he instituted his Modern Techniques of the Pistol into the curriculum of his defensive handgun classes. Now civilians and law enforcement students were being taught the techniques that proved so successful during the competition that Cooper and his pals conducted at Big Bear Lake. His classes covered all the principles of movement, aggressiveness, tactics, mindset, the Weaver stance, gun handling, marksmanship and pistol deployment, coupled with his thoughts on speed, precision and accuracy. This, folks, is the precursor to what we now call defensive guncraft and its correlation to personal protection with a handgun. We have Col. Cooper and his sharp mind and wit to thank for his contribution to our welfare.