{"id":30685,"date":"2014-08-06T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=30685"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:35:49","slug":"ruger-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/ruger-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship\/30685\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruger Sponsors 2014 IDPA U.S. National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rugerlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rugerlogo-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"rugerlogo\" width=\"250\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rugerlogo-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rugerlogo.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 The International Defensive Pistol Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDPA<\/a>) announced that one of the nation\u2019s most respected gun makers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ruger Firearms<\/a>, has signed on as one of the major sponsors of the 2014 IDPA U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a rich tradition at Ruger of supporting the American shooter and the shooting sports. We\u2019re very pleased to have the support of such a well respected gun maker and to be working with them on this year\u2019s IDPA U.S. Nationals,\u201d said Robert Ray, membership and marketing director for IDPA.<\/p>\n<p>Ruger joins ACADEMI, Blade-Tech, Brownells, Comp-Tac, CZ-USA, GLOCK, Harris Publications, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Smith &amp; Wesson 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>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>BERRYVILLE, Ark. \u2013 The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) announced that one of the nation\u2019s most respected gun makers, Ruger Firearms, has signed on as one of the major sponsors of the 2014 IDPA U.S. National Championship. \u201cThere is a rich tradition at Ruger of supporting the American shooter and the shooting sports. We\u2019re very [&hellip;]<\/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":[3391,25],"class_list":["post-30685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-idpa-u-s-nationals","tag-ruger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685","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=30685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}