Subtitled: So what WAS that we were hearing about alla them tough Danes?
"Little over a year ago the justice department informed IPSC-DK that drawing a loaded weapon and moving with a loaded weapon is too dangerous and if we removed those two elements out of IPSC then we could continue to shoot IPSC in Denmark. I think they expected us to roll over and die quietly. We didn't.
IPSC-DK appealed the ruling and initiated several tests and collected statistics on safety, rewrote the rules and did everything possible to illustrate that if there was only one thing we knew, it was range safety. IPSC had been shot in DK for 30 years without incident, not even chess has such a safety record.
The justice departments own authority on shooting ruled that IPSC is as safe or safer as any other shooting sport in Denmark, real life instructors testified that IPSC has nothing to do with combat shooting etc etc. We presented this with a good feeling some months ago to the Justice department and were confident that we had proven that they can not ban our sport on the basis that it's unsafe.
The justice department were to have a meeting with the chiefs of police before summoning us for a meeting, this dragged on but finally two weeks ago IPSC-DK were summoned to JD for the meeting. No agenda or anything was given out, not even when pushed for.
At the meeting JD informed that IPSC is too dangerous and is now forbidden. PERIOD, end of discussion. Along the way there has been no documentation released from JD what so ever. Nothing, not even what they base their decision upon. Outrageous!"
Outrageous, indeed. Seems they do lots better when dealing with cartoons.
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