"Machine guns— weapons that fire multiple shot with one pull of the trigger—have been technically illegal since the mid-1980s. Yet while the guns that Stephen Paddock used to shoot more than 500 people in Las Vegas fired automatic rounds, they were perfectly legal, according to rules established by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)."
From CBS News
The article has been since edited.
Some online sites called them out on it:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/04/cbs-news-automatic-rounds/
http://www.dailywire.com/news/21978/fake-news-cbs-makes-bogus-term-describe-ammo-used-ryan-saavedra#
https://downtrend.com/71superb/cbs-...nd-without-explaining-what-the-hell-those-are
From CBS News
The article has been since edited.
Some online sites called them out on it:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/10/04/cbs-news-automatic-rounds/
http://www.dailywire.com/news/21978/fake-news-cbs-makes-bogus-term-describe-ammo-used-ryan-saavedra#
https://downtrend.com/71superb/cbs-...nd-without-explaining-what-the-hell-those-are