Odds ‘n Sods:

Jamie W. was the first of several readers to mention this, from Nanny State Massachusetts: City: Give Us Your Guns, Get A Free Flu Shot – And A Wegman’s Gift Card. You have to love this logic: Sara Schastok, president and CEO of the Evanston Community Foundation says, “Of course, no one is under the illusion that people who intend harm as a way of life are necessarily going to turn in their guns.” JWR’s Comment: Perhaps the gun grabbers’ real intent would be more obvious if they also included the phrase: “Also get a free bowl of pottage!”.

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For just this week (through Friday December 7, 2012), novelist and SurvivalBlog reader Archer Garrett is making his novella Flashback available free of charge as an Amazon e-book. Archer describes it: “The story is about resistance in the face of oppression, and also has some strong faith Christian undertones.”

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Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large) flagged this: Sturmgewehr 44s used by Syrian Rebels.

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Also from Mike: More Pallet Houses

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A great Bill Whittle lecture: “Where do we go now?”