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Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation

organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ25056796 ↗
Source-derived summary

Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation (SVDS) is the Swiss association for practical shooting under the International Practical Shooting Confederation. Switzerland hosted the first IPSC Handgun World Shoot in 1975.

Editorial summary

“Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation” enters the record as organization. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Swiss, Dynamic and Shooting can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Swiss, Dynamic and Shooting.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Swiss, Dynamic and Shooting provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25056796. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation primary sources, Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation archive and Swiss research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Swiss Dynamic Shooting Federation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.