from the link in post 98:
>>>Looney recalled that English said, “I heard two pops that sounded like small caliber gunfire, “Following that, I heard several bursts of assault weapon shots. I recognized the sound because I carried one of those weapons for six years as a marine. That’s all the gunfire I heard. Then the police started screaming ‘Get down!’”<<<
Does ‘burst’ imply full auto fire to anyone else but me?
‘Several shots’ would be semi-auto, but ‘bursts’?
Sounding a bit worse now....
Multiple people initiating fast semi-auto fire simultaneously could easily be mistaken for automatic fire. Yet, some PDs certainly do have full auto M-16s and M-4s so who knows.