Yup. It's sloppy reporting like this that gets the media and the public saying things like "The kid who shot up the school had an AR-15! That's a machine gun!! He was probably firing 300 bullets a minute!!!! We need to make AR-15s, or anything like them completely illegal! Who goes hunting with a machine gun?!"
If the public understood the reality, there would be a lot less anti-gun fervor.