Americans actually do shoot quite well, but the rules around gun handling are incredibly strict for Olympic shooting.

Things like minor celebrations, emotion, or even the cadence of your walk while leaving the range can cause disqualification.

Since American shooters can't hit a bullseye without shotgunning a beer and magdumping into the sky as eagles carry exploding fireworks in celebration, they often do not place in Olympic shooting

The real reason

In fairness, you see that chick from South Korea?

You don't gotta aim to bit a crowd of kids at a school.

Sometimes classroom training doesn't translate.

Sucks that there are no schoo children and black people available as targets.

mfw the shooting venue wasn't a school

Not to take anything anyway from the Olympic athletes who are incredibly talented at their sport, but their sport doesn't resemble the practical shooting of real guns.

There are actual competitons for that, such as the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) world shoots. The U.S. is much better represented in these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPSC_Handgun_World_Shoots

American shooting is a lot more flash than precision.

Legitimately there's a category of shooting sports that's about the most efficient use of WWI trenchgun style slam firing, which is basically abusing the reload speed on that class of shotgun to convert it into a semi-auto.

We literally made a sport out of what the enemy tried to get classed as a war crime as an act of spite and you're wondering why we not so good at traditional marksmanship? It's a level of decorum that America was basically founded as a fuck you against.

Pfft. I used to bulls-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home.

If they had a mass shooting category we would cleanup. Who wants to shoot just one bullet at a time

Competition shooter here. Olympic shooting is boring as hell.

Americans place really well in IPSC, USPSA, and 3gun.

The IPSC rifle world shot is happening right now in Finland.

That’s why muricans need assault rifles.

Even Guatemala got their first ever gold metal and it was on shooting and she broke the Olympic record.

We love shooting guns, doesn't mean we're any good at accuracy!

Not fair, they won't even allow pre-ban machine guns firing tracer bullets in five round bursts.

They need to pack the targets in bunches of 20-25 and house them at an elementary school if you want these mouthbreathers to show interest😉

No no... America has always been about quantity over quality. This proves that.

Olympic shooting has nothing to do with shooting of any other kind. The guns are custom made. Unless you are speficially training for the Olympics you'll likely never handle such a "weapon". I think using these guns is the equivalent to a running being able to use spring blades. I am not a gun owner but it feels like a pointless sport as done.