Kerry: I Love My Communist Chinese AK-47

Two weeks John Kerry blasted Bush for failing to push for an extension of the assault weapons ban, saying he’s never met anyone who wanted to use an AK-47 to shoot a deer.

But that was before Kerry admitted in a magazine interview that he owns a Chinese assault rifle. Read: Open mouth, insert foot.

“My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam,” Kerry tells Outdoor Life in 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.”

(By the way that particular gun is illegal to own in Massachusetts or Washington D.C. It’s probably a ChiCom AK-47 ‘war trophy’ he brought back from Vietnam. Very illegal to do so and just as illegal to own where he lives and works. )

The Kerry campaign stonewalled questions on their candidate’s illegal gun stash, with spokesman Michael Meehan telling the New York Times only that his boss was a registered gun owner in Massachusetts.

Meehan said that Kerry had been unable to respond to questions about his banned weapon because his voice was too hoarse. (awww pobrecito) The Kerry aide refused to return follow-up calls.

“It’s O.K. for John Kerry to own these kinds of firearms, but it’s not O.K. for John Q. Public?” complained National Rifle Association spokesman Andrew Arulanandam, in an interview with the Times. “He certainly owes people an explanation as to why there’s a double standard,” Arulanandam added, noting that if the top Democrat brought his illegal assault rifle home from the war as a souvenir he could be subject to court-martial.