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Kerry Takes Aim At Dean Over Gun Control Issue

Friday, November 7, 2003

After bagging a pair of pheasants on a much-publicized hunt in Iowa, Sen. John Kerry is drawing a bead on his party`s presidential front-runner, Howard Dean. He`s using an issue that`s proven mortal for some Democratic officeholders -- gun control.

"In the 1990s, when I was fighting to get the assault weapons ban, Howard Dean was appealing to the National Rifle Association for their support and was on the opposite side," Kerry said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Read About It: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POSTED: Friday, November 07, 2003

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