Kerry owns assault rifleDespite pushing for bans

against public possession

Posted: September 26, 2004

7:13 p.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com



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.''

He's just going with the flow on the issue. A lot of people in both parties don't like automatics. In fact, it's probably a majority on both sides. The Dems vote for gun control, and the Reps against. The former to get votes, and the latter to get the NRA money and lock in those votes.

The funny thing is, aside from the NRA, most of the groups that would support gun ownership are probably opposed to the GOP.

Hezbollah's flag shows a rifle.

The Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade t-shirt, if I recall correctly, shows a rifle too.

The Black Panther Party loved guns, and back then, it was legal to walk with an unconcealed rifle, so...

Here's an old photo of Malcolm X (Mr. Ballot or the Bullet himself) with a rifle. Later in life, he stepped towards peace. Some say he was assasinated for this.

Notably, Huey Newton also, in his final years, renounced violence and embraced peace seeking as the most radical position.

Whoa... here's Castro with a field of rifles!

Of course, it's not right to present only the pro-gun images. Here are some images of people who have been shot.

Here's something from a pro-gun group.

Damn! It sucks to be oppressed.

Here's an old Greenpeace logo, from back before they were an infomercia. It's being carried by London Greenpeace now:

Hey, that looks like a circle-A!

An assult rifle is a select fire ( full auto or semi ) weapon using an intermediate powered round. I doubt that an SKS is such a rifle. I have one and I like it a lot for it's accuracy and simple take down.

And yes it is unsuited for hunting four leged animals due to its reduced knock down power. It is not a hunting rifle, it's a self protection tool.

I think the two quotes were from different situations.

He owns a semi automatic, and implies that it was something he took from a dead VC. Presumably, he also owns a hunting rifle for hunting.

BTW, I was looking at the RCP flag, and I got the weird sense that, though it looked like a gnarled wood flagpole, the top of it looked like a bayonett.