Posted on 09/26/2004 6:50:07 PM PDT by bear11
Despite pushing for bans against so-called assault weapons, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry now admits he owns a "Communist Chinese assault rifle.''
''My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam,'' Kerry told Outdoor Life magazine for its October issue. ''I don't own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle.''
When asked by the New York Times for more information about the weapon, Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said Kerry was a registered gun owner in Massachusetts.
Meehan said Thursday he was unable to ask the senator about the rifle because of Kerry's hoarse voice, and the Times reports he did not respond to further inquiries.
Kerry is a hunter who voiced support for the recently expired assault-weapons ban, and often tells citizens he's never met anyone who wanted to use an AK-47 to shoot a deer.
Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, told the Times the comment in Outdoor Life made Kerry's support of the ban disingenuous.
''It's OK for John Kerry to own these kinds of firearms, but it's not OK for John Q. Public?'' Arulanandam said, adding Kerry could be subject to court-martial if the gun were brought home from the war as a souvenir. ''He certainly owes people an explanation as to why there's a double standard.''
Describing it as a Communist Chinese assault rifle certainly implies that he brought a full-auto AK-47 back from Vietnam as a war souvenir. I have to wonder what Navy regs at the time said in regard to such items.
Maybe it came back with him from Paris as a token of Madam Bihn's appreciation.
Neigh!
Reg in Mass! Isn't he also supposed to have a Fed'l permit if that thing is fully auto?
Hehehe. He's got it hanging right next to the 18 point buck he got on Boston Common from 700 yards.
Iraqis can have fully automatic AK-47's.
But we can't.
Go figure.
Kerry is like all liberals. If it's his gun, he will just give it to his body guard. Only peons can't own these guns. Rich patricians own what they want. Case closed.
I'm wondering if a little visit by the ATF isn't in order here.
Folks:
I apologize for duplicating an existing thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227501/posts
There are great comments there that are worth viewing.
He's obviously got some kind of gun, because he keeps shooting himself in the foot!
This is my rifle...this is my gun... one's for fightin...the other's for fun...
(Sorry, I know that this is a Kerry thread and the mental image is liable to blow a few mental circuit breakers.)
He's lying about the rifle. How can you tell? You can see his lips moving.
Kerry lies about everything. He lied about the rifle, and he lied when he was asked "what was the biggest deer he ever got."
When he was asked that question, Kerry said (quote not exact), "Oh, I don't know about 8 points, something like that, nothing too big. But I saw one one time, something like 16 points, but I failed to shoot at the appropriate time,"
C'mon hunters. Have at it. Could ANY deer hunter possibly not know EXACTLY how many points his buck had? It's not even like Kerry has shot so many that this particular one gets blurred in his memory. Kerry admitted that he hasn't deer hunted much. But when asked what his biggest buck was, he claims he's not sure how many points, but it was something like 8. Get outta here.
Also, he tells a classic, "I saw a big deer story." Yeah, so what. First of all, I'm not going to take Kerry's word for it being a 16-pointer. I doubt most people could tell a 16 until they were made happy by a warm gut pile. To count 16 points reliably, you pretty much have to get the buck down on the ground to do it. So, if Kerry had that much time to count points, why didn't he shoot? He's such a girlie-man poseur.
Can't he be arrested for owning an 'illegal' and possibly unregistered, gun?
Okay. Parsing that statement (and you really have to do that with Democrats), I find nothing in it that is actually saying he owns any such thing.
Since he claims to have been a Naval Officer (in Vietnam), he should certainly know exactly what an assault rifle is, but I don't think he has one, demilled or otherwise.
When Kerry talks here about his M-16 rifle being his favorite weapon, let's not forget his highly publicized claim on the TV interview (just after his congressional testimony) where he admitted to committing various atrocities. He stated (paraphrasing) that he used 50-calibre machine guns against the VC, they being the only weapons given him by the higher-ups! No mention of his favorite weapon then...
This puke has been an anti-american liar his entire life.
His campaign being hijacked by the evil Clintons is just reward for his public life of dishonor and treason. May he reap all the benefits and rewards of being a Clinton protege!!!
The Kerry campaign said Sunday it erred when answering a questionnaire for Outdoor Life magazine and said that the Massachusetts senator counts a "Communist Chinese assault rifle" as a favorite gun.
The gun is actually an inoperable single bolt rifle, not an assault weapon, said spokesman David Wade. "The Kerry campaign should have described it as an old military rifle," he said.
The senator also owns a double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun for hunting, aides said.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/27/kerry.debate.preps.ap/
"Joker, the enemy never runs. He flees... patrols aren't dangerous, they're danger-filled... Style... style, Joker"
"Yes Sir."
"And uhh... Joker, where's the weenie?"
"Sir?"
"The Senate, Joker. The Senate record. All those years, committees, the Senator must have sponsored something."
"Didn't see it, sir."
"Were you actually there on that session?"
"Yes, sir."
"You must have seen a filibuster, a point of order?"
"He was campaigning, sir."
"Okay, well that's why God passed the law of probability."
"Re-write it and give it a happy ending. Law passed. Make it Education. Or a Social Security Bill. You pick."
(with apologies to Stanley Kubrick)
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