Unfortunately this is the kind of paranoia that afflicts many antis. They don't know jack about firearms, just that they are "bad." I know some people that you can't even talk to them about guns because they are that paranoid of them. You would think you were trying to talk to them about participating in incest.
When the Heller decision was being discussed in the news, Juan Williams on FOX news was basically saying he was afraid of them, and more violence would result. I doubt he has any shooting experience. I once saw Dan Rather call an M-1 carbine that was shown in a video news clip an AK-47.
Of course an AK-47 probably has a bigger, more sensational fear factor with the antis and the general public. Dan Rather knows the difference between the two, or at least he should having been a corespondent reporting from Viet Nam.
I find that accuracy in news reports both about firearms and firearms law in sorely lacking. These people don't due their homework and background fact checking.
Geraldo Rivera doesn't seem to know that differant barrel lenghts are available for the AR platform and that LEO can have short barrel lenghts and full auto.
I'll stop ranting now.