From a news story - Police: Soldier shoots burglar trying to steal guns
Johnson says the soldier grabbed his SKS rifle -- a weapon similar to an AK-47 assault rifle -- and called 911. Johnson said while on the phone with 911, Bollinger saw the suspect approaching his back door and fired at him three times.
The SKS and AK-47 are both military rifles of Soviet design but the SKS is not an assault rifle. An assault rifle can be fired in semi-automatic or automatic mode. An SKS is semi-auto only.
I didn't know this before but I looked it up because the mention of an AK-47 was unnecessary in the article and previous experience with news articles about guns has taught me that the media makes frequent mistakes. (If they are mistakes and not misinformation.)
Posted by marybeth at May 6, 2007 07:40 PM Guns