Cleaning Your Handgun

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I have decided to cover this topic (Cleaning Your Handgun) in detail because of all the emails I keep getting about this subject. Most people do not know how to clean a handgun properly. Before I get into this subject I want to cover a few necessary items.

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When cleaning a specific handgun today, you must take into consideration the amount of polymer parts you may or may not see in every current production handgun. When the government banned tri - clorethane, most of these cleaning products were replaced with methylene chloride which is paint remover. My spelling may be wrong but this is what basically happened. If you were to clean your Walther P99 using a product that contains methylene chloride it will melt the back strap of your handgun.

If you use it on many plastics it will ruin the material instantly including fiber optic sights and their plastic cover that you often see. I am just giving you some background as to why I have come to decisions involved in my selection of cleaning products. I would "NEVER" repeat "NEVER" carry any handgun or rifle that was not spotless. All my weapons are clean as possible at all times. I have many polymer handguns and I like them. I had to find a product that was very safe so as not to destroy the polymer parts of the very weapon that is used to keep me alive, its that simple.

I have gone to unrelated chemical companies (not gun related) that make products for other industries. I have bought products from LPS LABS and CRC and DOW and many others until I finally found a safe and very effective cleaner for use on metal and non metallic parts. I settled on using a contact cleaner that is made by LPS LABS (http://www.lpslabs.com/) this product is called Micro X and I buy 11 ounce aerosol cans that come with about a 5 or 6 inch spout that you can spray into difficult to reach areas. It cleans instantly and it dries instantly. I buy it by the case and you can purchase this product from http://www.mscdirect.com/

The reason that I am going in to such detail is because I see all the confusion in the various emails I get. I receive an average of over 200 emails per day on many subjects. If you have a semi auto pistol (except of course handguns like glocks and the SA "XD" etc.) with removeable grips, it is a good idea to remove the grips once in a while and clean the metal under the grips as even stainless steel will rust, after you clean the frame under the grips use a film of MILITEC METAL CONDITIONER on the steel or you can use a very thin film of MILITEC GREASE which has a lithium base and I have never seen this type of grease harden or cake up. http://www.militec-1.com/ These people are top rated at Militec...

Field strip your semi auto pistol and usually there is no reason to go any further. You will of course remove the barrel and use cotton patches with a good bore cleaner. You can use Remington or Accupro or Hoppes or what ever bore cleaner you like. You will not use the MICRO X as a bore cleaner. You must have the proper size cleaning rod and a good jag to do the job right. Dewey make decent cleaning rods, and there are many others that I like. I personally very seldom have ever used a bristle brush of any kind although I have all sizes. After your bore is clean you can spray your entire barrel with MICRO X. Put a thin film of MILITEC on the outside of your barrel. I often leave a very very thin film of MILITEC on the inside of the bore. It is safer to clean your bore from the chamber side if you are worried about scratching your crown, in my case I have done so many it makes no difference as I am super careful.

You will now use your MICRO X cleaner and spray the inside of your slide and get it clean. You may need a small tooth brush or a few Q-Tips to help you. It must be super clean and in some pistols you should remove the extractor about every 1000 rounds and clean it. For example a Beretta 92F has an extractor that should be cleaned as well as the extractor spring and extractor pin. I want everything as clean as possible. NO OIL IS TO BE PUT ON THE EXTRACTOR CLAW OR BREECH FACE AT ANY TIME BECAUSE IF OIL PENETRATES INTO YOUR PRIMER YOU WILL HEAR A CLICK INSTEAD OF A BANG. You do not want any type of lube on the extractor claw because it could cause the claw to slip off the cartridge case.

You will spray your recoil rod and its spring using the MICRO X. GET IT CLEAN and lightly lube it with MILITEC. I MEAN LIGHTLY FOR A CARRY GUN. You will now hold your frame over a lot of folded paper towels like BOUNTY. You will spray your inner workings of your frame using MICRO X until it runs clean. I want it as clean as possible and if a tooth brush helps then use it but it must be super clean. It will dry almost immediately and when you are satisfied its clean you will relube all the action parts with MILITEC METAL CONDITIONER. If the MILITEC runs out its no big deal just go ahead and wipe off the excess. You are about finished but you must clean your magazine, you can easily spray the MICRO X into the magazine until it runs clean. DO NOT LUBE UP YOUR MAGAZINE.

If you look at the BROWNELLS catalog you might find a safe product made for the internals of magazines. http://www.brownells.com/

Be sure you have cleaned up your magazine catch that is on the frame and then put some MILITEC on it. There is no way I can address every specific handgun you own in a few paragraphs but let me give you some examples to guide you. If you own a Sig 230 or 232 take the grips off before using any chemicals. Same goes for all Walther products. Do not keep spraying painted sights and the same applies for fiber optic sights which have no business being used on a carry gun (my opinion only).

If you are going to carry this handgun keep it on the dry side. If you just wipe down the MILITEC there will still be a ultra thin coating of protection on your survival handgun. I think I will continue this cleaning proceedure in my next commentary for revolvers and other type weapons. Should you have any questions you can email me at tjacobson@houston.rr.com Please keep your questions brief and to the point so I can answer everyone.

McCain's folly on 'torture'
Intelligence gathering will suffer under amendment

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G2 Headlines
Author: Joseph Farah

© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 08.12.2005 20:27

This article was prepared by a veteran U.S. military interrogator. After spending billions of dollars over the course of decades on highly advanced technological intelligence gathering systems, it is evident at this point in the war on terror that technology alone cannot defeat guerrilla fighters who quickly melt back into the population. One of the most critical intelligence-gathering elements in the U.S. armed forces are interrogators (the PC title for this now is Human Intelligence Collector) and counterintelligence personnel, who deal strictly with human intelligence or HUMINT. HUMINT is a discipline that fills in the gaps that other intelligence gathering assets leave open.

A satellite cannot tell you a terrorist’s intentions or his next target, nor can voice intercept work if nobody is talking on the phone or on a radio. The military operates on a five-year (or more) lag. In the pre-Abu Ghraib world of the 1990s, HUMINT was neglected, the number of trained personnel was limited. Training budgets were spent on quantifiable objectives like marksmanship (for military intelligence units) where you could say on an evaluation, “99 percent of the company are ‘expert’ shots,” as opposed to something amorphous like, “99 percent of our interrogators are expert at interrogation.”

Being an expert shot is quantifiable – you have to shoot the target 36 out of 40 times at known ranges … but what does being at expert at interrogation mean if you are not in a war? After 9-11, the military realized quickly that it needed more interrogation personnel. In every "after action review" in the first days of Afghanistan and in Iraq, commanders screamed for more HUMINT personnel. More personnel were fielded, reservists called up, but another lesson was quickly learned by HUMINTers on the ground.

Sen. John McCain This is an entirely different enemy than any the U.S. has faced before – at least by any currently living interrogators. This is a lesson that senior officers in the intelligence community still to this day have not figured out. Senior officers, still in a pre-war mindset, seeing the chance to excel and receive high marks decided to increase the number of novice interrogators (18- and 19-year-olds for the most part) sent to the battle field – but decided to drop the language requirement. Now instead of interrogators who know the language and culture of the enemy, we have high school students trying to “break” hardened terrorists, from a culture where, among other things, old age is respected … and “children” are to be ignored.

Interrogators and commanders in Iraq have to rely on locally hired interpreters whose loyalties are at best suspect. There is no way for an interrogator or commander to know if his interpreter is lying and the military is reluctant to hire U.S. native speakers that can acquire and hold a security clearance as the going rate is well over $100,000 each. The old psychology behind interrogation was based on facing the Soviets and Eastern Block countries. It was likely that you would have captured a conscripted soldier who had no desire to fight, had been conscripted against his will, and who would be fighting for the Soviets, who were despised by all Eastern Bloc satellite countries.

To break one of these soldiers would only require mild techniques, such as those listed in the now defunct Army Field Manual 34-52. Some sample techniques were Mutt and Jeff, fear approaches that involved yelling and screaming, humiliation techniques where a Soviet Bloc commander would feel the need to prove he wasn’t inept and incompetent. This new enemy however, is entirely different. He is a believer in his cause. He wants to fight, and is more than happy to kill himself if it means he can kill one or more U.S. soldiers or native “collaborators.” This enemy has been raised in the Middle East where real torture is a standard operating procedure, and had most likely suffered real torture at the hands of his own government.

This enemy finds the Geneva Conventions to be laughable rules for the weak. He has no intentions of abiding by the Laws of War (which, incidentally, put him outside of the protections of the Geneva Conventions), because the master he serves is his god, and not old and long dead European men. Mild United States interrogation techniques are largely ineffective against the hard core fighters.

Combat commanders on the ground in both theaters (Iraq, Afghanistan) do not have the luxury of waiting months or years for “rapport building” techniques where interrogation and intelligence personnel try to “become the terrorist’s friend” in the hopes that the terrorist will give up information. Interrogation techniques that are now popularly deemed “coercive,” such as sleep and diet management, stress positions, etc, were never taught at the U.S. Army interrogation school but are well known by senior interrogators due to Joint NATO exercises where aggressive techniques were regularly practiced on Special Operations Forces throughout the world.

NATO countries considered these techniques within the bounds of Geneva because they were “merely uncomfortable and of a short duration.” The success rate of these aggressive techniques is nearly 100 percent. Ask any graduate of a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school. Any politician or military officer that says torture is an ineffective technique for intelligence gathering is either ignorant on the subject or a patent liar. In the early days of Afghanistan, aggressive techniques were used and over 75 percent of the Taliban and al-Qaida leadership were captured or killed in a period of months.

Well-coordinated aggressive interrogation in Iraq enjoyed an initial high rate of success. The beginning of the end came as squeamish commanders unfamiliar with the psychology, techniques and procedures started questioning these practices. Imagine these commanders send combat arms units to kill, maim and mutilate the enemy on a daily basis – and then act horrified about a detainee with a set of underwear on his head.

Lt. General Sanchez sent out conflicting guidance with changes to procedures in an environment where intelligence gathering units only had sporadic reliable access to secure communications. Then Abu Ghraib made the news. The witch hunt continues to this day, and as a result, interrogation in the field has been severely restricted.

Interrogators face courts martial throughout the Army for the actions of a few untrained reservist “shake and bake” military police. Needless to say, the amount of actionable intelligence dropped off precipitously. Commanders still demand the same number of reports, so interrogators write flurries of reports filled with fluff. When a commander demands blood from turnips, interrogators will provide something that looks like blood.

Some interrogation teams pass interrogation responsibilities to junior staff officers designated as the S-2 (intelligence officer) who has never had a moment of interrogation training, while the interrogation team waits at the front gate hoping to buy information for $20 from an Iraqi “walk in.” The interrogators feel, if there is an abuse accusation, it will be the officer that gets the court martial, not them. The walk-ins of course, are happy to take the money, rarely provide any information, but keep the interrogators busy writing reports.

None of this is to say that interrogation teams in the field aren’t working as hard as they can to produce valuable information – but when you take away three-quarters of their toolset and impose a standing threat of courts martial, it’s much like sending the infantry out to fight the enemy in their boxer shorts with nothing but a bayonet. As a result, in voice intercepts in early 2005, known terrorists openly ridicule U.S. Army interrogators, making particular fun of the ineptness of female interrogators.

In one particular voice intercept, the terrorist said, “All you have to do is maintain your innocence for three days and you will be released in two weeks.” Despite the military’s supposed political neutrality, general officers are highly political animals. They know who butters their bread, and it requires congressional approval for General Officer level promotions – opposing the political winds means that you can kiss your next star goodbye. With this background, John McCain proposes an amendment that would limit the military to “interrogation techniques listed in Army Field Manual 34-52.”

This is a ruse. John McCain knows full well that opportunistic officers at the Training and Doctrine Command at the United States Army Intelligence Center and School had by July 2004 created a new interrogation manual, Field Manual 2-22.3, which supersedes FM 34-52. This manual essentially guts interrogation tactics and procedures, advises interrogators to respect a terrorist’s self esteem, cites Geneva Conventions never ratified by the United States (because “allied countries may not approve of our interrogation techniques”), and removes or tones down the various approach techniques.

One approach that was removed is called “Mutt and Jeff,” otherwise known as “Good Cop, Bad Cop,” which is legal in any police station in the country. The rationale for removing this approach was because “two interrogators in the room at the same time might be considered too intimidating.” The aerial bombardment at the beginning of this Iraq war was called “Shock and Awe” – designed to intimidate Iraqi military units into surrendering or disbanding.

Yet we have military intelligence officers who think intimidating a terrorist is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Interrogation techniques had remained unchanged (until now) for more than 30 years. Interrogators used these controversial techniques in Gulf War 1, Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo without comment from the media or congressmen. The bottom line? When U.S. forces catch a bomber and cannot find out where his supplier is, who the financer is, or where other bombs are, soldiers die. However, in most cases now days, it is innocent Iraqi men, women and children who die horrible deaths, by bombing, execution style shootings or beheadings.

Another consideration: When the U.S. military doesn't know where or who exactly the terrorists are, it uses bombs -- which means collateral damage and much more innocent carnage. Some lawyers believe that U.S. interrogation techniques are morally wrong. But if these men and women saw real war footage of what a .50 caliber machine gun does to a man, most would likely reconsider how egregious it is to put panties on a prisoner's head. Quoting and counter-quoting the actual wording of Geneva Conventions, General Provisions of War and other international treaties always devolve to two arguments:

• It’s not the American Way; • The means do not justify the end; One must remember that War is a method of foreign policy in which the "means" is immediate, ruthless and utter violence. Quibbling about panties or whether a prisoner gets eight hours of sleep in war is idle semantics for people with too much time on their hands. Hopefully, the American Way, as far as war is concerned is to win quickly and with as few casualties as possible as opposed to, “slaughter as many Americans as you like, as long as we feel good about ourselves, it will be alright.”

MIDEAST BRIEFING

Breeding more suicide bombers
Deep depression seen among militant Muslims

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Author: Joseph Farah

© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 08.12.2005 18:54
You might think setbacks to jihadist Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere would lead to a reduction in suicide bombing attacks and other "martyrdom" operations. Think again.

Life in Gaza Sources in Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority report a deep psychological depression gripping many of the most militant Islamists that, coupled with the continued indoctrination of the young that being a "shahid" is the highest calling of Allah, will result in an explosion of suicide attacks in the coming months and years. There is a recognition and resignation, though often unstated, by the terrorists and would-be terrorists, that they will never defeat Israel or the United States militarily.

In addition, the Muslim faith leaves the question of Paradise uncertain for all but holy warriors. As one seasoned analyst put it: "They see no reason to live, so choose the only reason to die." Bounties are still being paid to the families of suicide bombers by the Palestinian Authority, supported by tax dollars from the U.S. and Europe as well as massive amounts of aid from Saudi Arabia. Joblessness is rampant throughout the Palestinian Authority and Palestinians in Lebanon are still discriminated against in housing and employment.

One observer told G2B: "The only thing I can't figure out, given the conditions in these areas, is why there isn't more terrorist activity. It's a breeding ground for nothing else." Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker, recently completed a documentary called "Suicide Killers" based on interviews that he conducted with the families of suicide bombers and would-be bombers in an attempt to find out why they do it. "People don't understand the devastating culture behind this unbelievable phenomenon," he says. "My film is not politically correct because it addresses the real problem-showing the real face of Islam.

It points the finger against a culture of hatred in which the uneducated are brainwashed to a level where their only solution in life becomes to kill themselves and kill others in the name of a God whose word, as transmitted by other men, has became their only certitude." Rehov came to the conclusion that the suicide bomber phenomenon is the result of "a neurosis at the level of an entire civilization. Most neuroses have in common a dramatic event, generally linked to an unacceptable sexual behavior.

In this case, we are talking of kids living all their lives in pure frustration, with no opportunity to experience sex, love, tenderness or even understanding from the opposite sex. The separation between men and women in Islam is absolute. So is contempt toward women, who are totally dominated by men. This leads to a situation of pure anxiety, in which normal behavior is not possible. It is no coincidence that suicide killers are mostly young men dominated subconsciously by an overwhelming libido that they not only cannot satisfy but are afraid of, as if it is the work of the devil.

Since Islam describes heaven as a place where everything on earth will finally be allowed, and promises 72 virgins to those frustrated kids, killing others and killing themselves to reach this redemption becomes their only solution." According to Rehov, the profile of the suicide bomber is a young man between the ages of 15 and 25 bearing a lot of complexes, generally inferiority complexes. "They must have been fed with religion," he said. "They usually have a lack of developed personality.

Usually they are impressionable idealists. In the western world they would easily have become drug addicts, but not criminals. Interestingly, they are not criminals since they don't see good and evil the same way that we do. If they had been raised in an Occidental culture, they would have hated violence. But they constantly battle against their own death anxiety. The only solution to this deep-seated pathology is to be willing to die and be rewarded in the after life in Paradise."

Bob Barr: Bush administration worse on Second Amendment than ClintonAmercia in Danger of Becoming a Military State

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones December 11 2005

Former Republican Congressman and CIA official Bob Barr says that there is a danger recent developments describe a trend of America slipping into a totalitarian society and that the Bush administration are doing everything in their power to see that this happens.
During a radio interview with host Alex Jones, Barr outlined where the country is heading.

"Basically, as long as you smile when you demand to see somebody's ID at gunpoint sitting on a bus I guess it's OK for the government, that's sort of the way they operate. It can be a totalitarian type regime."
"I think it's a real danger where we have the military becoming involved in all sorts of domestic matters and we have the government being able to seize very private personal records on people without any suspicion that they've done anything wrong. This is a dramatic turn of events that has accelerated greatly since 9/11.

"Barr made comments very similar to those of current Republican Congressman Ron Paul in stating that natural disasters could be used by the government as a pretext to abolish posse comitatus.
"If we have the military involved whenever there's a windstorm, rain or tornado then what we are doing is that we are undermining the entire basis on what our constitutional representative democratic form of government was founded."

Barr said that legislation like the Patriot Act and its imminent re-authorization and expansion were more of a threat to the American way of life than any terrorist attack.

"Even when the leaders in Washington say we're not going to let the terrorists change our way of life, they are implementing policies that do precisely that."

Barr elaborated that the manipulation of fear was a key cornerstone in the government's coup de 'tat on constitutional liberties.
"They're using people's fear of another terrorist attack to move forward with various government programs that the government has wanted to gather and put in place for many many years.

They're using the fear which is now driving public policy in this country which is very unfortunate and very un-American. Our leaders are shamelessly playing on that fear to implement and grab power."
Speaking on the topic of the second amendment, Barr said that his position as a board member on the NRA enabled him to judge the difference between how the Clinton and Bush administration's approached the issue.

Barr echoed the sentiments of many other prominent conservatives in expressing his frustration about how the Bush administration was even more anti-second amendment than the Clinton office.

"it's my impression to be honest with you, and this is confirmed by a lot of folks who are involved very heavily in regulatory matters involving firearms, that it is more difficult dealing with this administration than it was dealing with the prior administration."
Barr is currently working with the ACLU and others in trying to prevent the sunset clauses of the Patriot Act from being renewed, which could happens as early as this week.
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