Kerry Questioned About His 'Chinese Assault Rifle'

CNSNews.com Morning Editor ^ | September 17, 2004 | Susan Jones

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The Weatherby Athena is made by either Ithaca or SKB and is a double barrel barrel gun with one barrel above the other. There are double guns (and triple) with combination shot and rifle barrels in various arrangements, but a 20 guage is the rave thing for trendy quail and dove hunters.

Very likely, Kerry was just babbling about his Chinese Assault Rifle but if he brought it home as a war trophy, it is probably a fully automatic arm registerable under the national firearms act of 1934-36 et al: If he bought it stateside just out of nostalgia, it is almost certainly a civilian look-alike semi-automatic. In either case it would be an AK 47 (Automavit Kalashnikov)possibly made in the PRC. These were supposedly banned under the recently expired Clinton Gun Ban but in fact, they continued to be imported and sold after being sanitized with a few cosmetic changes and lower capacity magazines.

In the case of President Bush and John Kerry, it is not unusual for wealthy people to have guns and or to go hunting regardless of nationalities or political affiliation. Even Leonid Breznev liked to go pig hunting even though he was the Eurasian equivalent of a Leftist Democrat.