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▲ Shotgun for clay pigeon shooting (File Photo)
An athlete selected as a national team member for the trap shooting event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games has been caught after storing an excess amount of shotgun shells in the trunk of their vehicle.
Athlete A, who was selected as a national shooting team member for this year's Asian Games, parked a vehicle at the Jincheon National Training Center in Chungcheongbuk-do on the 22nd and departed the country to compete in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup held in Hangzhou, China.
However, on the morning of the same day, an official at the training center happened to notice that the trunk of Athlete A's vehicle was open, and discovered 818 shotgun shells intended for competitive shooting inside.
Under regulations, the maximum number of shotgun shells an athlete is permitted to possess at one time is 400.
As police launched an investigation following a report, Athlete A returned to Korea on the 25th without being able to compete in the matches and underwent police questioning.
An official from the Korea Shooting Federation stated today (the 29th), "We have stripped Athlete A, who violated live ammunition management regulations, of their national team qualification for the Asian Games, and the athlete who finished second in the national team selection trials will participate in the Asian Games."
The Korea Shooting Federation posted Ahn Dae-myung (Busan Metropolitan City Hall) as the runner-up from the selection trials on the federation's website today and decided to accept objections until the 7th of next month.
The shooting community, which suffered a major ordeal last year when 22-caliber competition rounds leaked from the ammunition depot at the Jincheon National Training Center, is unable to conceal its embarrassment over another lapse revealed in ammunition management.
(File Photo: Yonhap News)
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