According to the MSM...anything that you don't pour powder down the muzzle is an "automatic weapon".
The boy could have run around doing this with a rock in his hand, and every one would have said thank God he didn't use that hand grenade.
When we people learn bad people do bad things, and it don't matter what's illegal they'll still do it. Truck bomb, stabbings, anthrax, make a tank out of a bulldozer, poison.... Arm the good guys, because this show once again, "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away." Sad.