{"id":23793,"date":"2013-06-27T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=23793"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:42:13","slug":"harris-publications-to-sponsor-2013-idpa-u-s-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/harris-publications-to-sponsor-2013-idpa-u-s-national-championship\/23793\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Publications To Sponsor 2013 IDPA U.S. National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harris-Pubs-Sponsors-Nats\"<\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA<\/a>) announced that Harris Publications, a leading publisher of special interest publications and owner of such titles as Combat Handguns<\/a><\/em> and the popular websites Tactical-Life.com<\/a> and PersonalDefenseWorld.com<\/a>, will once again be one of the major sponsors of the IDPA U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n

Hosted by the U.S. Shooting Academy<\/a> in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2013 IDPA U.S. National Championship will take place September 19 thru 21 and is again expected to draw over 300 of the sport\u2019s top shooters. Harris Publications joins Brownells, Taurus and the National Shooting Sports Foundation as a gold level sponsor of the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the more than 22,000 IDPA members I want to thank Harris Publications for their continued, and generous, support for the International Defensive Pistol Association and the 2013 IDPA U.S. National Championship in particular,\u201d said Joyce Wilson, executive director for IDPA.<\/p>\n

In addition to supporting the IDPA Nationals, Harris Publications has over the years been one of the most active corporate sponsors of IDPA competitions, helping matches all across the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarris is very proud to support IDPA whenever possible. Our team at Harris, constantly discusses\u00a0how our magazines and websites must be tools \u2013 tools to help the good guys stay safe. Of course we want every reader to be pleased with the \u2018new\u2019 products we try so hard to secure first to test and evaluate for our followers. But every time we close a magazine or post something online, we say to ourselves, \u2018did we do the best possible job conveying solid tactics, to keep the good guys one step ahead.\u2019 \u00a0At the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about. We think that this is also the essence of IDPA. We share their mission,” said Shirley Steffen of Harris Publications.<\/p>\n

For more information on IDPA, the 2013 IDPA U.S. National Championship, or to join the more than 22,000 members competing each week all across America, visit www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as @OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a> and Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IDPA announced that Harris Publications, a leading publisher of special interest publications and owner of such titles as Combat Handguns and the popular websites Tactical-Life.com and PersonalDefenseWorld.com, will once again be one of the major sponsors of the IDPA U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[164,2597],"tags":[2817,2645],"class_list":["post-23793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-2013-idpa-nationals","tag-harris-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}