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Can't read your blog with Blue Font on Brown Background.....Can't see it.
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Someone told me about a similar problem some time ago, apparently its becuase of an older Explorer or Firefox edition. You should be able to read it perfectly well since it has a very clear background on the text area.
For some reason, certain older versions aren't loading that background but I assure you its the web navigator, not the blog. I can see it well with my desktop computer and laptop, using the latest Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Try updating your internet navigator with a new version.
Guys, if anyone remembers the exact version that was causing the problem please chip in, thanks.

FerFAL

Very disturbing news learned this weekend: The K Army

One of the agents that came from a southern province to participate in the CQB class told me something pretty disturbing.
A local Union leader approaching him about what he could do with this card he had been given. The card was a carry permit, simply impossible to get for legal gun owners.
This person said it had been simply given to him and that most local union bosses, community social movement leaders and road blocker bosses were getting it. 3.000 permits have been distributed among these guys, most of them supposedly unemployed and needing a social plan to live and in many cases with an extensive criminal back ground.

http://www.bolsonweb.com.ar/diariobolson/detalle.php?id_noticia=24220

The woman (the one on the left) in this picture standing next to president Kirchner is Miliagros “Mili” Salas, ex drug addict and prostitute. She used to live on the streets and decided to get involved in politics after spending 8 months in prison.

She now gets over 10 million dollars per year directly from the Ks, moves around with at least 6 SUVs all around her full of armed thugs and beats up and intimidates those that don’t comply with the Ks.
She has more power in her province, Jujuy, than the governor, and freely walks into the presidential house in Buenos Aires to insult secretaries or Ministers if she feels like it.
Last year she registered 100 firearms for her crash force. When the local authorities refused to do so because of the dark past of those to whom the firearms would be issued, orders came directly from Buenos Aires to comply.

Her counterpart in Buenos Aires, Luis Delia, has taken some of his people to receive combat training in Chavez’s Venezuela.
Now, this is all confirmed information. I checked on line and found several articles and media websites, and there’s been criminal charges presented by the political leaders of the opposition. Of course, these cases will be shelved and everything will go on as usual.
There’s also reports of AK rifles arriving from Venezuela to Ezeiza international airport and carried away by ambulances.

Information about military officers, police sheriffs, their location and families, even information about legal firearm owners has been given to these groups in case they need to take action against them.

Why is all this happening? The K’s are openly against the military and a large sector of the police. The police they are slowly trying to change with their own people but they’ve always treated the military as enemies so they aren’t counting on them. That’s why the Ks are creating their parallel “social” army.
Oh, yes. This does freak me out as its clear that no good can come from this, an unofficial army across the country that are above the law, ready to strike anyone opposing.

Now, trying to learn from this and drawing parallelisms:

1) You guys don’t have our pitiful 3rd world society but its not crazy to imagine that some … “underprivileged ” groups, organized in social welfare in local neighborhoods, fierce supporters of the nanny state that keeps them financed may end up doing something similar.

2) Do all you can to remain below radar. Firearms should be purchased without paper trail if possible. Don’t become a fat target to hit if such a group ever gets hold of ATF lists. “We promise we wont tell anyone about your guns” isn’t good enough. The list of firearm owners and address do exist. Make sure you’re not in it or that you’re at least not in that address.

3) Talk to people “in the know” to know about these things happening.

4) Get involved politically so that these things never happen in your country!

FerFAL

CQB Training Day 2 and Lessons Learned

Yesterday we had rain during the entire training session.
There was an action shooting tournament that got canceled, then it turned into a thunder storm and the guys doing Krav maga next to us left too. It was hard to see with water pouring down the eye protection and with the earmuffs on and running around you sometimes confused the thunder with shots. You also slipped a lot because of the mud and you never knew when there was a foot deep hole in what seemed to be a puddle of water on the trail, so when water covered you boots you had to walk carefully.

After a short review of the room clearing concepts from the day before, we did some target recognition and precision shooting.
Each target had small squares with numbers, about 3x3 inches square with a number inside. Facing at 6 and then 9 o’clock, a number was given and when the whistle was blown you had to go from SUL, kick your right or left leg forward to rotate 90 degrees and shoot. Because of team members being right in front of you during this exercise and then moving all around you the rest of the day in tight quarters, SUL was used a lot and your gun was either holstered, SUL, shooting a target or covering some area.

The day was then completely dedicated to room clearing in teams. Lots of dry fire practice, then with live ammo. We used only 3 rounds per magazine most of the time, so the shots had to be accurate and you did lots of tactical reloads ( not dropping the mags to the ground like in sport shooting) while your partner covered you.

Any mistake, such as going into a room alone, leaving your partner without backup, dropping gear, sweeping someone with the barrel unnecessarily, forgetting to cover your sector, it was all punished with pushups on the spot. When everything was done correctly and we solved the scenarios smoothly… we were rewarded with some more pushups. We ended up doing lots of pushups, sometimes in the soft mud, sometimes on a few inches of water.

We learned how to resolve corners in pairs, L and cross shaped corridors.
The we did all this but this time with hostiles inside with airsoft.
All in all, it was good training and I wish we could do it more often.

Some of the lessons learned:

1)The guns used were either Glocks or Bersas. I did fine with my Bersa, dropped it in the mud, the rain cleaned it up for me, it still worked well and I had only one malfunction because of bad reloads (primer didn’t go off)

2) Don’t mess up your Glock. The only Glock that had problems was one that had been… customized. The only thing that the Glock needs is iron sights if you have the fragile plastic front post. Other than that, lave the thing alone!

3)A revolver in this condition would have stopped firing sooner than later. Try dropping you revolver in the mud, then putting your weight over it and fire a couple shots. Repeat it 5 or 6 times and see how it works.

4)Everyone there had previous training. If you think that you don’t need training because you’ve been shooting all your life you don’t even know what you don’t know.

5)I expected rain but stupid me, I forgot to take extra clothes: It was an uncomfortable trip back home. No that it mattered much after a hard day of training. Being pushed that way puts all things into perspective.

6) Leather may look nice but it sucks when it comes water. Getting caught by rain may be enough to leave your holster damp, and needing a replacement until it dries, and eventually rots. Synthetic fabrics and kydex may not look that nice but will resist water and sweat much better.

7)You need to train at least every six months to keep your skills. Otherwise you get too rusty. Just a visit to the shooting range and spending a good times with friends and buddies doesn’t count.

8) These are extreme high risk courses and with defensive shooting in general body armor is a very good idea. I took my vest and was glad I did. Its during these times as well that body armor becomes a most valuable item, and you realize your life is priceless. Sure worth the couple hundreds bucks worth of armor.

9)Soft body armor gets ruined when wet. I opened my panels, dried them up but I would advice taking hard armor plates to these classes where you might end up soaking wet. When working indoors and there’s no risk of such thing happening, then maybe soft body armor is more confortable and you don’t risk ruining your gear but I’ll get hard plates as soon as I can. When you get armor keep in mind our advertiser, bulletproofme.com, there’s also used vests in good condition that will serve you we’ll if you have a tight budget. Again, your life is priceless.

10) These classes are also good for finding lik e minded individual. Someone said, “Heck, we’ve make a hell of a team if things get totally messed up. Maybe we should share our emails” We laughed for a second, and then stopped laughing and wrote down our contact information.

FerFAL

CQB-Dinamic Entry Training- Day one

I’m dog tired but as always couldn’t be happier with the world class level of the training.

Along with Baigorria was an instructor that specializes on hostage rescue, with extensive training ranging from US Air Marshals, Israeli Sky Marshals  and pretty much every special force in Latin America and Europe.

It was 9 students, except for 3 or 4, the rest where police tactical team member from the province or federal police. 

We started with some basic drills, failure clearing, tactical reloading, shooting in movement. Then we quickly moved on to working with our partner, shooting in pairs, covering each other while the other reloaded or simulated a failure. Then we worked either in a single line or too, laying suppressive fire as the rest of the team moves, pretty nice. Also evacuating someone wounded while the team provides suppressive fire. You had to be able to carry you partner over your shoulders and run while shooting with the other hand.

Then we did a single file patrolling on some small but dense subtropical wooded area near by, you constantly got bug biting you and thorny vegetation slapping your face as you moved. You couldn’t move there without eye protection, there wasn’t even a trail.

We did this combines with ambushes, several times. We also practiced jumping walls as a team, also the right way to jump a wall quick and not profiling against the skyline.

Any screw up by any individual was punished by 5-20 pushups right there on the spot for the entire team.

We then saw the basics of room clearing individually, pairs and teams. How to resolve different kind of rooms, corridors, doors and corners, one going low and another one high simultaneously.

After that we went to a house with no roof for more room entry , this time we had to organize a quick assault and neutralize anyone inside. 

By now mosquitoes were just killing us and all this was done at night, using our flashlights. We failed miserably the first couple times but the last one we nailed them. This will be more intensely covered tomorrow.

The course is pretty intense, from 8 AM to 8PM, stopping only to rehydrate (not very often) and lunch was a sandwich eaten quickly right there in the range in 10 minutes.

My t shirt broke at some point I cant recall, so did my jeans. I forgot about sun screen since I was rather expecting rain (maybe it will rain tomorrow) and I got burned pretty bad.

I drunk about 2 liters of water and I’m still rehydrating, everything is soaking wet.

Well guys, got to go to bed and be ready for tomorrow for another day of fun.

Take care.

FerFAL

Warning shots: How many do you need?

I’ve mentioned a while back that a good friend of mine owns a 300 ha. farm close to Buenos Aires and that every time I go there I hear a few warning shots being fired to send away those that trespass to steal some wood or crops.

I mentioned then how much sense it makes to have a 22LR for this. You’re not mowing down zombies, you’re just letting trespassers know that you’re armed and aware of what they are doing, so you want the cheapest bang per buck.
A few shots is enough. If they don’t leave, you’re still firing ammo that is quite capable of killing.
Now, a few days ago I saw this article:

Lawlessness after quake in Chile fishing village

and I found this in it:

The harbour has been decimated - first by the earthquake and then by the 15m-high (49ft) tsunami which threw boats and shipping containers out of the sea and into the port with massive force.

Dozens of containers are now strewn around the harbour as though they were cardboard boxes, having crushed several people in their cars in the process.

In this scene of devastation, looters have made the most of the chaos. Many of the containers have been opened and their contents, be they bananas, nappies or computer equipment, taken by the desperate hordes.
"I've fired 500 of the 2,000 rounds of ammunition I've got," says Mr Orellana, who works for the Ministry of Public Works, showing off his gun licence.
"I fire over their heads to scare them off, and so far, it's worked."

Rene Orellana has fired hundreds of warning shots to ward off looters

Mr. Orellana deserves the Nobel Peace prize guys!
500 shots and not one dead. Shows yet again that you can usea gun to defend yourself and not kill anyone. Maybe actually dropping a few of these guys would have reduced his ammo spending significantly, but that’s not the point.

Given that he’s shooting shot gun shells, he was lucky enough to have 2000 rounds to being with, most people don’t have more than a box or two, if they have that at all.
The lesson here is, after a given disaster where there’s looters around, a couple rounds over their heads most often works.
But this means you may end up shooting a lot so again, the king of all calibers, good old 22LR becomes very important.

What to have?

22LR is by far the cheapest caliber you can stock up on, you can pick a 500 round value pack every now and then and soon enough you’ll have thousands of rounds ready.
Which brand? whatever works best in your gun. 22LRs tend to be picky. Heavy projectiles at high velocity work best on most occasions.
As for the gun, 22LR are cheap enough there’s no reason not to own one rifle besides your 22LR handgun.
I’d go for semi auto rifle. The reason for this is that since the caliber is relatively weak, at least you compensate with higher capacity and fast follow up shots.

Though it was interesting, these real world encounters aren’t as exciting as the fantasy ones but at least here there are valuable lessons to be learned.

FerFAL