{"id":30273,"date":"2014-07-07T10:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=30273"},"modified":"2014-07-04T11:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T16:59:41","slug":"glock-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/glock-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship\/30273\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOCK Sponsors 2014 IDPA U.S. National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GLOCK_PERFECTION_brand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/GLOCK_PERFECTION_brand.jpg\" alt=\"GLOCK_PERFECTION_brand\" width=\"250\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/us.glock.com\" target=\"_blank\">GLOCK<\/a>, the nation\u2019s leading pistol provider to American law enforcement agencies and maker of some of the most popular pistols used in the shooting sports, has returned as a major sponsor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDPA<\/a>\u2019s annual U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe list of supporters of the IDPA U.S. Nationals reads like a Who\u2019s Who of the shooting industry and chief among them is GLOCK. Thanks to their continued generosity IDPA continues to be the fastest growing shooting sport. We\u2019re proud to once again be working with GLOCK to bring our members another great championship event,\u201d said Robert Ray, membership and marketing director for IDPA.<\/p>\n<p>GLOCK joins Brownells, Harris Publications, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and Wilson Combat as a gold level sponsor of the championship which takes place September 9 thru 13 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usshootingacademy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Shooting Academy<\/a> in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The match is expected to draw over 300 of the sport\u2019s top shooters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGLOCK is proud to support the U.S. National Championship,&#8221; said Josh Dorsey, VP of Sales and Marketing for GLOCK, Inc., &#8220;The\u00a0IDPA competition realistically portrays the scenarios and the processes of dealing with situations you might face in real life. Competitors should have the opportunity to experience and excel\u00a0at all levels\u00a0here and we wish them all the best at the event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on IDPA, or to join the nearly 24,000 IDPA members competing each week, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.IDPA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can further connect with the IDPA community through IDPA\u2019s social media, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/officialidpa\">@OfficialIDPA<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter and ShootIDPA on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShootIDPA\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/shootidpa#\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/shootidpa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/shootidpa.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0or check for regular news and updates on the\u00a0organization\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/blog\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DOWN ZERO Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLOCK, the nation\u2019s leading pistol provider to American law enforcement agencies and maker of some of the most popular pistols used in the shooting sports, has returned as a major sponsor of IDPA\u2019s annual U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[246,3391],"class_list":["post-30273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-glock","tag-idpa-u-s-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273","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=30273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}