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\"Alberto
The Uzi is the most produced submachine gun ever conceived. In 1975 it was used to try to settle a particularly torrid marital dispute. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was the spring of 1975, and the most dangerous woman on the planet had just deplaned from her Lear jet at the Bogota airport. The quick hop from Miami had taken some two and one-half hours. All the way down Griselda Blanco Restrepo steamed. She was having husband troubles, and her marital squabbles were about to go public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Griselda Blanco was a heartless killer and a ruthless businesswoman. She literally burned through three husbands before she was murdered at age 69. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Blanco was unimaginably successful. As the\nundisputed leader of one of the largest cocaine smuggling enterprises on the\nplanet, Griselda was turning $80 million per month. Several years before Blanco\nand her second husband Alberto Bravo had smuggled themselves into Queens, New\nYork, with $26,000 in cash they had scammed back home in Medellin, Colombia.\nTheir cocaine smuggling empire subsequently became the stuff of legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Origin Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Alberto
The twisted Griselda Blanco was an unfortunate product of her sordid environment. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Griselda Blanco arose from a world where violence was a staple to be hoarded, metered, wielded, and traded. At age 11 she and several friends abducted the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Colombian family and demanded a ransom. When the family failed to pay the girl shot her young captive in the forehead with a pistol. This first commercial hit unleashed an eventual torrent of bloodshed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Griselda\u2019s first three sons were arrested in America for drug trafficking, deported to Colombia, and murdered by rival drug lords. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As a teenager she married a small-scale\nhood named Carlos Trujillo and mothered three children. Trujillo specialized in\nfalsified immigration documents and similar modest hustles. Griselda and Carlos\neventually suffered a disagreement of some sort, and she had him killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
There was money aplenty to be made in the drug trade in the 1970s and 80\u2019s America. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alberto Bravo, Griselda\u2019s second husband,\nwas just another hustler. However, where Carlos smuggled people, Alberto\u2019s forte was drugs.\nUsing the aforementioned $26,000 as seed, the couple rapidly expanded into some\nserious money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
In her prime Griselda Blanco was quite a player. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At first, Griselda sewed custom female undergarments to help her mules sneak Colombian coke through American airports. At the apogee of her career, Blanco employed around 1,500 professional smugglers, a modest air force worth of pilots, and a handful of government officials. By 1975 she had murdered her way to the pinnacle of her profession and become fabulously wealthy in the process. Along the way she caught her husband Alberto skimming cash and decided to balance the business. The stage was set for a simply epic marital tiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Killing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Alberto
At all of five feet tall the diminutive Griselda Blanco was not to be trifled with. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Griselda traveled to a local nightclub in\na multi-vehicle convoy. She was dressed in her typical finery including a pair\nof custom ostrich skin boots. Tucked into one of her boots was her favorite\ncompact automatic pistol. Griselda stood a mere five feet tall and weighed 165\npounds. While not necessarily physically imposing, her wrath once tooled up was\nindeed the stuff of legend. Her embezzling husband Alberto was soon to feel\nsome of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Griselda went by \u201cThe Godmother,\u201d and she took movies like Scarface<\/em> and The Godfather <\/em>way too seriously. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This small dangerous woman traveled with a veritable army of heavily armed bodyguards. Her husband moved with a similar professional security detail. When Griselda arrived at the nightclub she left her vehicle and strolled over to her husband\u2019s limo. Alberto was himself in a sour mood and verbally lashed out at his diminutive spouse. Griselda was commonly known as \u201cthe Godmother,\u201d and Alberto felt that such an innately excessive moniker might go to her head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
In the wrong hands the Uzi submachine gun can be a fairly indiscriminate weapon. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The resulting argument escalated through the car window until Griselda drew her pistol. In response, Alberto produced an Uzi submachine gun. Griselda pumped several rounds into her husband at contact range. Before he was incapacitated Alberto loosed a long burst from his Uzi, spraying the countryside with 9mm rounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Griselda survived a 9mm Parabellum to the belly to go on to even greater glory as a drug lord. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Griselda took a 9mm bullet to the abdomen.\nAt least one of her rounds center punched Alberto in the face. By the time the\nsmoke cleared half a dozen bodyguards were dead along with Griselda\u2019s sticky-fingered\nhusband. Griselda recovered to ultimately murder yet another spouse some years\nlater. Whether the security troops fell to Griselda\u2019s pistol, Alberto\u2019s SMG, sundry\nbodyguard\u2019s weapons, or some lethal combination has been lost to history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gun<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Alberto
The Uzi is an iconic firearm. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Uzi submachine gun was arguably the\nmost rugged pistol caliber submachine gun ever produced. While the faster\nfiring HK MP5 got most of the press, I myself consistently shoot better with\nthe Israeli gun. The Uzi arose during the dark early days of the reconstituted\nJewish state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The Nazis drove Uzi Gal\u2019s family out of his native Germany. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Uziel Gal was born Gothard Glas in 1923\nin Weimar, Germany. His parents divorced when he was young, and he fled Germany\nfor England as the Nazis slithered to power. In 1933 he accompanied his father\nto Palestine, settling in Kibbutz Yagur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
As a young man Uziel Gal was an Israeli patriot imprisoned for his paramilitary activities. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The communal life of the kibbutz foments\na fierce sense of community. Gal joined the Palmach early on and learned\nmilitary weapons. In 1943 he was arrested by the occupying British forces for\npossession of a firearm and sentenced to six years in prison. Two years later\nhe was pardoned and returned home to Yagur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Uzi Gal was a natural gun nerd. Here he is seen carrying his own Uzi and an original German MP38 submachine gun. The MP38 is differentiated from the much more common MP40 at a glance by the lightening hole in the magazine well. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Uzi Gal fought for his country during the\n1948 War for Independence and eventually developed his eponymous submachine gun\nbased upon personal experience in combat. At the time the struggling state of\nIsrael was using WW2-surplus weapons, many of Nazi origins, and was desperate\nto establish a domestic source of armaments. Sundry arms embargoes made\nsupplying the fledgling Israeli military a labyrinthine chore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Gal was described by those who knew him as a genuine and gifted soul. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gal spent two years developing the Uzi, and it first saw service with IDF Special Forces in 1954. By all accounts, a humble personable man, Uzi Gal protested when the IDF named the gun after him. The Uzi ultimately became the most produced submachine gun in history, with more than ten million seeing service. The Uzi has been produced under license in several countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The Uzi set the standard in its day for compact portability. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The basic Uzi sports an overhung bolt\ndesign inspired by the Czech ZK 476. This telescoping system is almost bullpup\nin its execution. Orienting the breech far to the rear allows the gun to feed\nthrough the pistol grip and remain markedly shorter and more portable than more\nconventional designs. The Uzi fires from the open bolt via advanced primer\nignition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The Uzi is designed from the outset to be easy to build in relatively austere industrial circumstances. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Not only is Uzi efficient, reliable, and\neffective in action, the gun is also designed to be easy to manufacture in\nlarge quantities via semi-skilled workers. The receiver and fire control unit\nare comprised of steel pressings that can be rapidly and cheaply produced in\nbulk. However, unlike the MAC-series guns, the Uzi is also accurate and\ncontrollable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The full size Uzi can be had with either fixed wood or folding steel stocks. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The basic Uzi design ultimately spawned\nthe Mini Uzi and Micro Uzi as well as semiauto versions of each for the\nAmerican civilian market. The full size Uzi features a solid wood or folding\nsteel stock and cycles at a sedate 600 rounds per minute. The smaller versions\nrun much faster and are more difficult to manage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The Uzi\u2019s ratcheting top cover keeps the gun from going off if the bolt is not completely retracted. As a result, the only way to clear a cocked empty gun is to point it in a safe direction and squeeze the trigger. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The grip safety along with a ratchet in the top cover helps keep the gun safe in a rugged military environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trigger Time<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Alberto
The selector switch slides from rear to front through safe, semi, and full. The unfenced magazine release is easily accessible, yet I\u2019ve never had an unintentional activation. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Uzi is undeniably heavy, but the gun\u2019s mass along with\nits modest rate of fire make the gun exceptionally controllable. Magazines come\nin a variety of capacities, but 25 and 32-round boxes are the most common. The\nmagazine catch is easily accessible on the left. The fact that the gun feeds\nthrough the grip makes it easy to reload even in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The Uzi\u2019s reputation for reliability ensured its wide distribution. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The sights are heavily fenced and rugged.\nHowever, once the gun starts running you will be sighting grossly through the\nsight ears. Three and four-round bursts are easy with a disciplined trigger\nfinger. After untold thousands of rounds through sundry Uzis I have never had a\nstoppage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denouement<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Alberto
Much of the drug-related bloodshed in South Florida in the 1980s had some nexus to Griselda Blanco. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Griselda Blanco was ultimately responsible\nfor between 40 and 200 murders. The argument that could be made that she more\nthan any other single person precipitated the bloodbath that was the South\nFlorida drug wars in the 1980\u2019s. Many to most of the drug-related\nmurders that rolled through the morgue back then had Griselda\u2019s bloody\nfingerprints on them to one degree or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Griselda\u2019s debased lifestyle ultimately took its tool on her both physically and morally. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Blanco was by all accounts a bloodthirsty\nreprobate for whom killings on whim and violent bisexual perversion were a\nregular part of her opulent decadence. She ultimately spent more than a decade\nin prison and continued to helm her cocaine empire from behind bars. In 2002 she\nsuffered a heart attack while incarcerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
Griselda Blanco pioneered the tactic of the motorcycle hit. She eventually succumbed to the same technique herself. Being a murderous drug kingpin makes one an unenviable list of enemies. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2004 Griselda was released from prison and deported to Medellin where she lived a fairly low profile life. Prior to her death in 2012 she had only been positively identified once at the Bogota airport in 2005. In September of 2012, Griselda went out to a local butcher\u2019s shop with her granddaughter to purchase $150 worth of meat. An unidentified man on a motorcycle emerged from the crowd and shot her twice in the back of the head, sparing the child. This method of assassination had, ironically enough, been one of Blanco\u2019s signature operations. At the time of her death, Griselda Blanco was worth roughly $2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The rise and fall of Griselda Blanco Restrepo is a cautionary tale of sin, greed, and redemption. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Her son Michael Corleone Blanco (yep, from The Godfather<\/em>) reported that prior to her assassination Griselda had become a born again Christian and renounced her violent past. If true Blanco\u2019s tale becomes an epic example of God\u2019s breathtaking capacity for forgiveness and redemption. In the bloody life of Griselda Blanco, we see that no human sin no matter how egregious exceeds a loving God\u2019s capacity for salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alberto
The Uzi is a superb close combat weapon. I registered this target firing short bursts offhand from fifteen meters. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Uzi Submachine Gun<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n Calibers\n <\/td>\n 9mm Parabellum,\n .22LR, .41AE, .45ACP, 9x21mm IMI\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Weight\n <\/td>\n 7.72 lbs\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Barrel Length\n <\/td>\n 10.2 in\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Overall Length\n <\/td>\n 18.5 in\n collapsed\/25 in extended\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Cyclic Rate of\n Fire\n <\/td>\n 600 rpm\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Feed\n <\/td>\n 20, 25, 32, 40,\n and 50-round box magazines\n <\/td><\/tr>
\n Sights\n <\/td>\n Flip-adjustable\n peep rear, post front\n <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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