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Americans actually do shoot quite well, but the rules around gun handling are incredibly strict for Olympic shooting.
Things like minor celebrations, emotion, or even the cadence of your walk while leaving the range can cause disqualification.
Since American shooters can't hit a bullseye without shotgunning a beer and magdumping into the sky as eagles carry exploding fireworks in celebration, they often do not place in Olympic shooting
"I can tolerate precision shooting, but I draw the line at emotional regulation!"
Or in other words, what's missing from our country's gun use is respect.
The vast majority of our issues with gun violence is the fact that we disrespect guns almost as much as each other, they're just another crass tool for achieving a feeling, like power, masculinity, reassurance and comfort. So then guess what happens when you flood the streets with more guns than every other developed nation combined?
We are a nation of undisciplined shooters, they may shoot "quite well" in some cases, but for every shooter who does quite well at hitting a target you have several thousand who have no idea how to shoot, AND have no clue about gun safety, respect and responsible ownership.
Well, sure, but you don't send a random selection of citizens to the Olympics. You send the best.
The nation with the most gun owners per capita and a huge population should have many pinnacle-tier shooters, even if it also has many bad ones. So the question is, why aren't they at the Olympics?
Honestly? Opportunity. It starts with money, or willingness for you or your parents to give up everything that isn't training.
I was in the service with some incredible shots. I've been on the range with some pretty incredible shots. Most of them would never have the opportunity for any number of reasons.
Some of that comes down to simply money. Flavor Flav is sponsoring our women's water polo team because some of them were working three jobs while training to stay afloat. Not everyone wants to or even can do that.
The real reason
In fairness, you see that chick from South Korea?
I will never have that kind of swagger
I definitely would not want to be the guy who tried to mug her.
Remember that in modern countries she wouldn't be allowed to carry that
That grip on that thing is crazy.
It looks like they took a wooden block and CNC'd her hand shape into it and nothing else. I'd like to see it from the other side.
Something like this
she looks like an arena shooter character.
i bet she can go partially invisible for 20 seconds with a cooldown of 7 and throws mad stun bombs
You don't gotta aim to bit a crowd of kids at a school.
AKA Spray 'n Pray.
Shots and prayers 🙏
That's what an extended mag is for ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Not to take anything anyway from the Olympic athletes who are incredibly talented at their sport, but their sport doesn't resemble the practical shooting of real guns.
There are actual competitons for that, such as the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) world shoots. The U.S. is much better represented in these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPSC_Handgun_World_Shoots
Classic Americans, making up our own rules and sucking at following the rest of the world lol
True but it looks like the IPSC is international as well, and the most awards are held by a French man, so US kinda sucks a little at that too.
Sucks that there are no schoo children and black people available as targets.
Pfft. I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home.
Stop bragging and go over to Tosche Station. We're totally out of power converters.
American shooting is a lot more flash than precision.
Legitimately there's a category of shooting sports that's about the most efficient use of WWI trenchgun style slam firing, which is basically abusing the reload speed on that class of shotgun to convert it into a semi-auto.
We literally made a sport out of what the enemy tried to get classed as a war crime as an act of spite and you're wondering why we not so good at traditional marksmanship? It's a level of decorum that America was basically founded as a fuck you against.
Legitimately there’s a category of shooting sports that’s about the most efficient use of WWI trenchgun style slam firing, which is basically abusing the reload speed on that class of shotgun to convert it into a semi-auto.
Competition shooter here. Olympic shooting is boring as hell.
Americans place really well in IPSC, USPSA, and 3gun.
The IPSC rifle world shot is happening right now in Finland.
USPSA
It would be a little strange if Americans didn't place well in United States Practical Shooting Association competitions
If they had a mass shooting category we would cleanup. Who wants to shoot just one bullet at a time
Where Americans lack in quality, they make up in quantity.
Olympic shooting is just a different beast. Look at the differences in scores; it's fractions of a point, in most cases. Air guns simply aren't popular in the US, while they're one of the very few options open to most people outside of the US. And, TBH, there's not a lot of support for the Olympic shooting sports in the US, aside from possibly trap.
That’s why muricans need assault rifles.
We’re good shooting at crowds, not in front of them on display. Just makes it too weird.
I can picture the American shooters just doing pray and spray and drive bys
Even Guatemala got their first ever gold metal and it was on shooting and she broke the Olympic record.
Nice! Congratulations, Guatemala!
Don't worry. They just wrapped up the Presidential Candidate leg of the competition. School is up next and we're expected to have a strong showing.
Olympic shooting has nothing to do with shooting of any other kind. The guns are custom made. Unless you are speficially training for the Olympics you'll likely never handle such a "weapon". I think using these guns is the equivalent to a running being able to use spring blades. I am not a gun owner but it feels like a pointless sport as done.
Not fair, they won't even allow pre-ban machine guns firing tracer bullets in five round bursts.
No no... America has always been about quantity over quality. This proves that.
At Olympic competition you just don't have black people or school children as targets. Which is a severe disadvantage for American shooters.