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Just random boasting?[edit]

It manages more than a dozen handgun, rifle and shotgun shooting competitions at the local, state, national and international levels, as well as having several branches devoted to historic and collectible firearms.

..in each local, state, national or international level, or in each one of the levels? And if it is in all of them, why bother writing about the local and state levels? Should that not be rather obvious?

The SSAA also provides general insurance for the majority of major shooting organisations within Australia, as well as public liability insurance for SSAA members whilst shooting or hunting, and manages the SSAA National Firearms Museum, located in St Marys, New South Wales

The majority of major shooting organisations. Who defines what constitutes a "major" shooting organisation?

Please be a little bit more specific, and stop boasting :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.80.29.64 (talk) 19:27, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know who the anonymous editor above is, but its pretty obvious that the membership of 130,000 in the SSAA, real people not sock puppets and branch stacking 'names' such as once were substantial parts of membership in Australian political parties, would identify a 'major' association. The sneering tone of this comment suggest that it was made by a person who finds ignorance about the shooting sports a moral virtue, which seems common in the anti-shooter political debate. The rhetorical device of argument from ignorance is their stock in trade.

It is 'common knowledge' what the major associations are, and that they indeed reflect an organisation from local sports clubs (many thouands of participants) through three or four levels of competition to the international level (a few hundred participants). This aspect of these serious sporting bodies organisation is notable, being just the same as athletics, team sports and most other established sporting institutions. ChrisPer (talk) 04:01, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Organisation Structure and Criticism[edit]

This article could address how the organisation is structured and the meaning of membership from the viewpoint of voting and election of executives via delegates of clubs to Branch/State levels and National. This structure produces certain effects in organisational behavour and causes many people who might work to better the organisation, to leave because incumbents dont allow change. SSAA went totally quiet on activism about 2008 and no longer makes any attempt to harness members in political activity or displays leadership in national-level activism, at least that the members and public can see. The death of the ASJ is telling. T or R, are you still interested in maintaining this article at all? Was I right to defend the notability of SSAA? ChrisPer (talk) 11:37, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]