To be in the Olympic Games, sports must have several factors. The biggest ones, in order, are:
Universality- participation in every continental region which for Olympic purposes is the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania. Not sure how many Aussies and Kiwis participate these days.
Gender equality. Check, in that AFAIK a woman can compete with and against men for the same prize money, etc in IPSC.
Gender Equity. That’s a tough one, in a sport that has what- a 25-1 male/female participation ratio?
Televisibility. Needs to be interesting for television. Very doable in my opinion but…
The real elephant in the room is that some influential IOC members - including the President, Thomas Bach, don’t really care for guns in the first place (conveniently ignoring the ones being carried by their security details at the Games) which is why firearms based competition with actual “lead styphnate goes bang” devices is more and more limited in the Games. And mind you Bach was an Olympic FENCER. A sport where you are scoring points STABBING PEOPLE.
And this is not a new phenomenon. Read this for starters… 22 years ago now.
https://apnews.com/article/30594033c...248b56f6778822
So, yeah. “Guns icky”. Slack jawed as that may be, it’s what we would have to overcome.