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Date Posted: 22:21:59 09/08/04 Wed
Author: XIV
Subject: The gift that keeps on giving

Drudge helpfully points out that the shotgun that John Kerry was waving around yesterday to show what a friend he is to hunters was one that he tried to have banned:

Kerry co-sponsored S. 1431 last year (The Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003) which would have banned a "semiautomatic shotgun that has a pistol grip."?

Whoops!

Update: The new Kerry rapid response team says that this is a Republican lie: The facts are clear. John Kerry opposes banning this gun and always will. John Kerry was proud to receive this union-made gun at the United Mine Workers Labor Day picnic in Racine, West Virginia.

Meanwhile, gun law expert Dave Koppel says, According to the bill, "(42) PISTOL GRIP- The term 'pistol grip' means a grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip." Kerry's new semi-automatic gun has a protrusion below the stock, which a person could grip. The protrusion is not a "pistol grip" in the ordinary meaning of the term, but it is a "pistol grip" as defined by S. 1431.

Hmmm. Koppel reads the bill that Kerry co-sponsored and concludes that it would have banned the gun. The Kerry campaign just asserts that he didn't without giving any facts or referring to the bill at all. This new rapid-response Kerry is excellent -- for the the Bush campaign. Let's talk about guns for a couple of days. Maybe we can argue about the NRA's rating of Bush and Kerry next. Hunter Kerry should want that, no? As the Kerry release says, John Kerry's opponents are worried because he's the first Democratic candidate to support Second Amendment gun rights and to be an avid hunter. Hey, bring it on!

Posted by Martin Devon

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