Jeff Cooper
PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP)–Jeff Cooper, editor at large of Guns & Ammo magazine and founder of the renowned Gunsite academy, has died. He was 86.
Cooper, considered one of the world’s foremost experts on small arms, had been batting health problems in recent years and died Monday at his home in Paulden, his family said.
In 1976, he founded the American Pistol Institute–or Gunsite–at Paulden to teach pistol techniques and later added a full curriculum on pistols, rifles and shotguns.
Since then, more than 18,000 students–including celebrities, law enforcers, military members from many nations and many civilians–have graduated from courses at Gunsite. He also wrote several books on firearms.
Cooper sold Gunsite in 1992.
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