I personally believe Senator Kerry was seriously misinformed on the gun issue, and that his positions on the gun issue arise from ignorance rather than malice. He trusts the gun-ban lobby, knows relatively little about civilian nonhunting firearms or Federal firearms law, and therefore was/is easily manipulated by the Bradyites into supporting outrageous prohibitionist positions. (How many times during the campaign did he talk about outlawing automatic weapons? Obviously he is clueless about the Title 2/Class III provisions of the National Firearms Act...)
I'm sorry, but that's just false: like most politicians, particularly most socialist politicians, he was and remains well informed on the "gun issue."
What Kerry did during his campaign is known as subterfuge. He intentionally misled some of the public into thinking he was after "only the bad guns." As if there is such a thing as a "bad" gun. But don't let these leftists make you think for a second that they don't know exactly what they're doing.
They know what they're doing, and how hostile to America it is, and how unconstitutional it is. They want you to think otherwise, which is the root cause of their rhetoric appearing misinformed on occasion.