The Alberta Federation of Shooting Sports (AFSS)
The Alberta Federation of Shooting Sports provides funding and support to ten Shooting Sports in the Province of Alberta.
NEW PROGRAM - JUNIOR RANGE SAFETY OFFICER
Objective:
· To ensure the highest possible standard of general range safety.
· To encourage youth members to take responsibility for range safety.
· To encourage youth members to become certified Range Safety Officers once they are eighteen.
Target Audience:
Youth aged 14 – 17 who are active in the shooting sports.
Premise:
Youth who are actively involved with shooting clubs, can register and take the AFSS Range Safety Officer course and on successful completion be qualified to assist an AFSS certified Range Safety Officer on the range.
About Alberta Federation of Shooting Sports
We encourage everyone to shoot regardless of age, race, gender, or physical ability.
History
Established in 1974, the AFSS is registered as a non-profit organization under the Province's Societies Act. The AFSS is recognized as the provincial body for shooting sports in Alberta.
Objectives
The primary objectives of the Federation are to promote, foster, and preserve the shooting sports throughout the province.
The AFSS receives funding and support from SPAR (Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation) under the Ministry of Tourism and Sport.
Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation offers operating grant programs to the provincial sport, physical activity and recreation organizations to support their role in the delivery of programs and services to Albertans.