Oh my
It looks like the media actually do know the difference between an assault rifle and a rifle that looks like an assault rifle:
A complaint said Gilbert had sold AK-47 assault rifles and other weapons to a confidential informant working with the federal government over the past two years. He was charged with five counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a machine gun and possession of an unregistered gun.
Oh, no they don’t. Sorry.
February 16th, 2005 at 11:56 am
My local radio station actually did a good job on the story. They said that he was in possession of automatic weapons, explained exactly what that meant: more than one round per pull of the trigger, and said matter of factly that he was not in compliance with the law in owning them. They used no scary words nor made any suppositions.