[RitchieAprile]

I wonder if the journalists mean the same thing by ‘automatic’ as we do..?

To them a magazine fed semi auto black rifle with a pistol grip and muzzle device is ‘automatic’.

[from occupied ga]

I wonder if the journalists mean the same thing by ‘automatic’ as we do..?

Probably not. Anything with a black stock and detachable magazine is an "automatic weapon" to the anti-gun media.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

What the lefty media calls “assault weapons” are
semi-automatic rifles to the rest of us.