And without a national "bank" of shooters to draw from, where do Olympic competitors come from? There are a lot of international competition disciplines involving large calibre automatics and even large capacity magazines. A colleague from my club went to Malaysia for a shoot(international competition). Told me all honours were taken by these little spunky Malaysian chicks using standard military issue Colt 1911 .45's. And that was "Practical Pistol", not target shooting. I was impressed.
I still have my ParaOrdinance, but I dont know for how long....