IPSC might be outlawed in the Netherlands

[diehli]

Received the following email from DAA today.

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Urgent - Your Action is Needed Now! 30 March, 2012

Dear fellow IPSC shooters and friends,

As many of you have heard already, IPSC shooting (in fact all Dynamic shooting disciplines) are about to be prohibited in the Netherlands!

This new law will be voted on in a matter of weeks, and if it passes – will mean the end of our sport in Holland, and who knows – this decision may well spread quickly across the EU.

As you can imagine, the NPSA (the Dutch IPSC organization) is mobilizing every possible resource to fight this unjust proposed law, but it is a desperate battle. The odds are stacked against us.

We need your help!

There is a petition being signed (online) which will be submitted along with other material as we try to make our case for our sport.

You can help by going online and signing this petition. The more signatures we have, the better.

Please also take a moment to forward this email to anyone you can think of who could generate more signatures, your shooting range, your club, your federation, your local gunsmiths who may be able to send it on to their mailing list. Post it online on any website you have access to.

We want to show that IPSC is a serious sport, with thousands of participants worldwide.

Please take a minute to log onto this site:

http://petities.nl/petitie/dynamische-disciplines-moeten-blijven

Scroll down, where it says “Ik” – you fill in your name

- Where it says ”wonede te” you fill in your city and country.

- Tick the checkbox if you want to allow your name to be shown on the list.

- Enter your email address

- And click the yellow box “ondertekenen” to sign the petition.

Many thanks for your participation in our fight.

Best Regards,

Saul Kirsch

General Manager

Double-Alpha Academy B.V.

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Approved.

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From AikiDale;

This link will give an English translation for the petition to save IPSC Netherlands:

http://translate.goo...%26prmd%3Dimvns

Dale

Thanks!

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Bad link above.

http://petities.nl/petitie/dynamische-disciplines-moeten-blijven/prominents

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An update from Diehli;

A follow up email from Eli at DAA:

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Signing the Dutch IPSC Petition - Clarification 31 March, 2012

Dear Friends and fellow IPSC shooters,

Since yesterday thousands have logged onto our petition to show their support for IPSC shooting in the Netherlands.

We have had many ask for it in English, sorry – this is a Dutch petition site, and the text is in Dutch – but use any online translation program to read it in your language.

Also – and very important: after you sign, you will receive an email (in Dutch) to validate your email address – you need to click on the link (as shown in the example below highlighted in yellow [i've bolded and underlined it - diehli]) so that your signature is validated.

When you click on the link, you return to the petition site – to a page on which you need to click the orange button “Bewaren” or "Bevestigen". Only then your voice is counted.

Thank you so much for your support!

Beste Eli Huttner,

Op de website petities.nl is de petitie "Dynamische disciplines moeten blijven" ondertekend vanaf e-mailadres eli@doublealpha.biz op vr 30 mrt 2012 14:18:57 met de naam Eli Huttner. Bent u het daar niet mee eens, dan kunt u deze e-mail negeren.

U kunt uw ondertekening bevestigen door op deze zin te klikken. Daarna komt u op een webpagina waar u op de knop [bevestigen] kunt klikken. Doet u dat, dan kunt u daarna uw ondertekening terugzien onder de petitie bij de dag van vandaag, mits u bij bevestigen heeft gekozen voor een publiek zichtbare ondertekening. U kunt ook later besluiten uw naam zichtbaar of onzichtbaar te maken door dan opnieuw vanuit deze e-mail naar die pagina te gaan en uw keuze te maken.

Om uw ondertekening te bevestigen kunt u eventueel ook deze link kopiëren naar een venster met een internetadresregel:

http://petities.nl/ondertekening/e9f53c441b8cd2025d9dac786ccbfa5cf3309b50

Thanks

[Flexmoney]

I heard this was dead. Anybody with news, please start a new thread in this forum (with a link, please). We can then merge that into this thread. -Admin.