May 10, 1920 – September 25, 2006

• Created the Safety Rules
• Created the Shooting School
• 1941 Marines
• 1957 Shooting Compititons in California
• Southwest Combat Pistol League (Southwest Pistol League)
  Bigbear, California
• 1966 coined the term Hoplophobia
• 1975 Became International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC)
• first IPSC President
• 1977 American Handgunner Magazine
• 1989 Principles of Personal Defense (Revised Edition, red cover)
• 2006 Principles of Personal Defense (blue cover)
  – Foreword by Louis Awerbuck

Hoplophobia, the morbid fear of guns, is a real, extremely dangerous, widespread and clinically recognizable complex specific phobia – Jeff Cooper 1966