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Trap shooting outside of any official event is common and arguably the majority of American trap shooting. Most official events are governed by the Amateur Trapshooting Association or ATA [6] and its rules. The ATA is the primary governing body of American trap shooting and is one of the largest shooting sports organizations in the world.
The Amateur Trapshooting Association (ATA) [1] serves as the governing body for the sport of American style of trapshooting. The ATA was founded in 1900 and as the American Trapshooting Association. [2] Its first president was John Philip Sousa. [3] [4]
Olympic trap is a shooting sports discipline contested at the Olympic Games and sanctioned by the International Shooting Sport Federation. Usually referred to simply as "trap", the discipline is also known in the United States as international trap , bunker trap , trench or international clay pigeon . [ 1 ]
Five Stand is a type of shotgun sport shooting similar to sporting clays, trap and skeet. There are five stations, or stands and six to eighteen strategically placed clay target throwers (called traps). Shooters shoot in turn at various combinations of clay birds.
The "trap" event, officially the ISSF Olympic trap, is an event held at the Summer Olympic Games.The men's event was introduced in 1900, and held at most editions of the Games (except 1904 and 1928, when no shooting events were held, and 1932 to 1948) and every edition since 1952.
Other traps such as special snares, trap netting, trapping pits, fluidizing solid matter traps [4] and cage traps could be used. Mantraps that use deadly force are illegal in the United States, and in notable tort law cases the trespasser has successfully sued the property owner for damages caused by the mantrap.
The International Shooting Sport Federation, aka ISSF, is the governing body of Olympic shooting events.It also regulates several non-Olympic shooting sport events.The Federation's activities include regulation of the sport, managing Olympic qualification events and quota places, and organisation of tournaments like the World Cup and World Championships.
The original Protocol was an annex to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and entered into force on 2 December 1983. The Protocol was amended in Geneva on 3 May 1996, known as Amended Protocol II.