This just in from the Fact-Checking Department...

This is a follow up to the Kerry-shotgun-gift story posted on the Drudge Report...

In West Virginia, Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, gave Kerry a rifle as a gift. Kerry, a self-described gun-owner and hunter, quipped: "I thank you for the gift, but I can't take it to the debate with me." -- Associated Press Writer Darlene Superville.

Dear Associated Press Writer Darlene Superville;

The firearm in question (if the photograph below is from the current "Gee, I have a gun" photo-op and not an older one) is a shotgun not a rifle, as you reported. Seriously, I'd have more respect for you media-types when it comes to covering anything involving firearms if you knew the first friggin' thing about firearms.

No wonder the "assault weapon ban" got dubbed the "assault weapon ban". I doubt you, and those like you, know, as G. Gordon Liddy puts, "which end of the tube the round comes out of" let alone what the difference between a shotgun, a rifle, or an assault weapon is.