Kerry is deliberately misleading people. As I'm sure you know, the AWB has absolutely nothing to do with banning or regulating full-auto AK-type weapons, which are already regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. The news media have consistently confused semiautos with full-autos. ....sometimes deliberately, but usually out of ignorance. Even Bill O'Reilly is ignorant of this, and he choses to remain so. (A couple weeks ago he interviewed GOA President Larry Pratt, and the latter made the exact point I made above. O'Reilly replied ...."yeah, yeah, I've heard all that before." ....as it he didn't believe it to be true, which a tiny bit of research could've substantiated).
He is trying to appear, on the surface, in the same place as Bush on guns.
You have to look beneath the surface, like on this comparison, to understand just how big a difference exists between the two men.
Kerry is not a stupid man. He's a pompous ass who badmouthed our fellow soldiers back in his protesting days but he's not stupid.