{"id":31028,"date":"2014-08-27T14:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=31028"},"modified":"2014-08-26T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T20:07:47","slug":"safariland-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/safariland-sponsors-2014-idpa-u-s-national-championship\/31028\/","title":{"rendered":"Safariland Sponsors 2014 IDPA U.S. National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Safariland-logo-new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Safariland-logo-new-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Safariland logo new\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Safariland-logo-new-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Safariland-logo-new-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Safariland-logo-new-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Safariland-logo-new.jpg 1236w\" 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safariland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safariland\u00ae<\/a>, one of the leading holster and law enforcement equipment brands, as well as longtime supporter of the shooting sports, will once again be a major sponsor of the IDPA U.S. National Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to welcome back Safariland and Bianchi as one of the major corporate sponsors of IDPA\u2019s U.S. Nationals. Safariland has a long record of supporting the shooting sports, and sponsoring individual shooters, and we are proud to be working with them once again,\u201d said Robert Ray, membership and marketing director for IDPA.<\/p>\n<p>Safariland joins ACADEMI, Blade-Tech, Brownells, Comp-Tac, CZ-USA, GLOCK, Harris Publications, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Nighthawk Custom, Ruger, Smith &amp; Wesson, Walther 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>\u201cVery proud to be part of the IDPA Nationals as all the hard working volunteers put on such a well-run event, good luck to everyone involved.\u201d said Scott Carnahan, Vice President, Safariland and Bianchi of The Safariland Group.<\/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>IDPA announced that Safariland\u00ae, one of the leading holster and law enforcement equipment brands, as well as longtime supporter of the shooting sports, will once again be a major sponsor of the IDPA 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":[678,3391,871],"class_list":["post-31028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idpa","category-shootingsports","tag-bianchi","tag-idpa-u-s-nationals","tag-safariland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028","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=31028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}