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World Fast Draw Association

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ25042296 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World Fast Draw Association (WFDA) is the largest international sanctioning body in the shooting sport of fast draw, with active members in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and Germany. In addition to keeping records and presenting awards, the Association publishes a monthly magazine detailing the sport. The organization is associated with the National Rifle Association of America.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where World, Fast and Draw can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “World Fast Draw Association” 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.