Hello Everybody

[Indi.Astra]

Hello all IFGians,

What an interesting wealth of information on arms and the right to bear arms IFG has! This attracted me to register at IFG.

I am a complete novice interested in CCW/home & self defence. Hope to learn from you all and also to support freeing up the antiquated thinking and legislation on bearing arms in our great country by the netas, babus etc.

Thanks to all for the wealth of information and hope to learn from all here through mutual sharing via posts and threads.

Cheers!
Indi.Astra

[nagarifle]

welcome Indi.Astra, glad you like the forum. stay and share your stories etc.

[dr.jayakumar]

you are same as we all are.

[Indi.Astra]

Thanks a bunch fellow IFGians for the welcome. I reside in a city that is boringly sterile, ultra urbanised with a reputation of very low crime rate and dubbed as the "fine city" . I have not forgotten the importance of tools that would have saved lives in emergencies while I was growing up in villages, towns and in bangalore city. With restrictive laws that prevent and discourage bearing arms to the law abiding citizens, I have had my fair share of being looted on trains and have witnessed attempted burglaries back home.

The situation here is not much different with restrictive laws. While our Desh is better off vis a vis knives, here, I am forced to carry a leatherman surge for an EDC knife given the habit of always having a crude locally made EDC knife back home. survival knives, blades more than 3inches and Guns? forget it! Airsoft guns have to be stored in the community club armories and not take home if you want to play with those toys! We need to give our details to even touch an airsoft gun at the community club while the loonies and illegals continue to scare the sheeples with parangs, keris et al. and they even use the same airsoft guns to commit the occasional crime. But even one occassional crime is enough to kill or maime a person for life. In that situation, we are left with our handphones to call for help or beg for mercy with these loonies. I wonder where we are heading as urban humans. The nuts and illegals continue to roam, while we are left to fend ourselves by waiting for the cops who will arrive in minutes while the crime is committed within seconds.

I very much appreciate the forum's efforts to instill awareness of being armed and law abiding while not compromising our right to self protect. Been reading up interesting posts here. I hope soon or later in India we will be aware of the threats and equip with legally available, cost effective, reliable arms that will protect individual freedoms and our nation.

Until then, sheeples outnumber the sheep-dogs and we will find it difficult to have decent arms at affordable prices with draconian laws when we need those tools to defend ourselves, family and friends.

nuff of my maiden rambling post. Promise not to be lengthy on posts in future. Off to the knife section where I am keen on presently.

Thanks again all.

Cheers!
IndiAstra

[Rajat]

Welcome to IFG, Indi Astra

[Sakobav]

Welcome aboard Indi Astra

[Prabhath]

Welcome aboard.

[Vikram]

Welcome to IFG .As Naga said, please do stay and share your experiences.

Best-
Vikram

[farhan.lateefi]

welcome to IFG!!


farhan

-- Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:41 pm --

welcome to IFG!!


farhan

[Indi.Astra]

Thanks you IFGians again for your warm welcome. I am just a novice on guns, knives and the political activism for our rights.

Sharing experience of being a victim? I am not ashamed to accept that I could not put up a fight on several occassions. I have been robbed on trains on two sectors - on the guntakal-hindupur section and on the Jhansi-itarsi sections.

I owe my life to a brave JCO who knifed the lone train robber near hindupur. The mugger threatened us with his revolver while we were all helplessly pleading. At some point, I could not take it anymore when the mugger slapped & yanked away the wedding chain (mangalsutra) and another chain from my aunt (I was a university student then). I shouted at him to atleast spare the women. I vividly remember the mugger was deaf to my shouts and started to menacingly charge towards me. Maybe he made a mistake. He moved from the door towards the middle of the coach. The fauji, seized the opportunity and knifed the mugger in the stomach. That was the end of the ordeal. The later process of shifting the mugger to the hospital, police etc etc followed. Had that JCO not knifed the mugger maybe I would have been dead meat.

Now these things are just memories but the frustration remains that we are collectively passive and maybe too scared of consequences (read police, courts etc etc) while some like that JCO dared to do the right things thus saving us all.

We always think such things happen to others until it happens to us.
Anyway, thanks a lot for putting up some much valuable info on various threads. Hope to make good friends here at IFG.
Cheers!