It took a long 22 years before shooting was introduced to civilians when the Penang Free School’s cadets became the exclusive ones to try out the sport and given proper shooting training in 1925.

As the sport grew in popularity, shooting enthusiasts, especially police personnel, felt there was a need to organise proper Inter-State competitions. Thus the birth of the Osborne Shield in 1930. It continued uninterrupted until the Japanese occupation of Malaya in 1941.

After the Japanese occupation in 1945, the British Military Forces, English plantation owners and local hunters revived shooting with impromptu competitions. They treated it more as a hobby than a sport.

The proliferation of interest led to the construction of makeshift shooting range at the Wardiburn Camp in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur where some British units were stationed in the late forties and fifties.

Interest for the sport soon gathered momentum with the new Wardiburn Camp and a group of locals, led by the late Tan Sri S.M. Yong, formed a legitimate shooting association, now known as the Selangor Shooting Association (SSA), in 1948.

Initially the small group of shooters were more interested in hunting than target shooting. Nevertheless, some 20 to 25 enthusiastic licensed gun owners, spearheaded by the charismatic Tan Sri Yong, an Ex-Chief Justice of Malaya, eventually formed SSA.

Tan Sri Yong was also the founder president of the National Shooting Association of Malaysia (NSAM).

When and how shooting was introduced - History of shooting in Malaysia.

Originally known as the National Body for Shooters, its name was later changed to the Federation Malaya Shooting Association. In 1963, it was renamed the National Shooting Association of Malaysia (NSAM).

At that time, the affiliates of the NSAM were Selangor Shooting Association (SSA), Singapore Gun Club, Singapore Rifle Association, Negri Sembilan Shooting Association and Perak Hunters and Shooters Association.

NSAM, in turn, was at that time affiliated to Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM), International Shooting Union, Asian Shooting Confederation and Southeast Asia Shooting Association.

By 1965, NSAM’s range in Jalan Gurney was relocated to Subang. It marked the high point of the founder Tan Sri S.M. Yong’s leadership of shooting in the country.

In the same year, Tan Sri Yong, a renowned lawyer, was appointed a high court judge Due to his judicial appointment, he felt that he did not have enough time for shooting and passed the baton to the late Tun Tun Siew Sin, the former Finance Minister who became the president of both the SSA and NSAM.

In 1970, concerned members raised sufficient funds to build a clubhouse which was graciously declared open by the then Prime Minister YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj on May 30, 1970.

Today, NSAM stands as a progressive, visionary and dynamic association, offering a comprehensive range of shooting facilities and holding regular competitions for national youth and senior shooters. It has also organised numerous international shooting championships such as the Sea Games, SEASA, Asian Shooting Championships and the Commonwealth Games.