And about 6 inches of barrel.
Yeah, that too. But for the average folk they wouldn't notice the 6".
You know fully well what was lost was an M4, they just called it an AR-15 to keep the heat off them for losing a machine gun. Every State Trooper, Sheriff's deputy and City cop I know has a Colt M4 as a service rifle. To a man, none of them have AR's assigned by the armorer.