Most of the general public does not know the difference between FA and SA, and the media hae done their best to confuse the public further. I doubt Rosie knows a handgun from a shotgun, she just collects money from Handgun Control and runs her mouth.
With "documentary" TV presentations like the Discovery Channel's story of Bonnie and Clyde showing AK47's and SKS's, the public becomes even more confused.
A couple of years ago, the Governor of Maryland railed about "drive by" shootings (there had been some in Baltimore and Washington) and cited bayonet attachments as being one thing he wanted banned. The last bayonetting in Maryland was in 1864, but emotion is the name of the anti's game, not facts.
One newspaper columnist, arguing for the closing of a local range, told his readers that "sporting" arms were OK, but that those "super powerful assault rifles" would shoot right through the three mile thick hill that backstops the range.
Lies are the stock in trade of the media, on every subject, in every case, on every day.
Jim