KERRY ON GUNS, IN OUTDOOR LIFE:

OL: Are you a gun owner? If so, what is your favorite gun?

Kerry: My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam. I don’t own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle.

Reader Kevin O’Kelley has some questions:

1. How did you acquire this assault rifle? Is it an illegally imported, untraceable souvenir?

2. Is it a fully-automatic weapon or a semi-automatic?

3. Where is the gun now? Is it legal for it to be kept there?

4. How can you support a law that forbids other people owning a weapon that you already own?

Good questions, all.

Inquiring minds want to know.

UPDATE: Yeah, yeah, inquiring minds also want to know if there’s any question — any freaking question at all — that Kerry can answer without mentioning Vietnam.