One of the antis showed the difference between a pre-ban
AK47 (with bayonet lug, muzzle brake, cleaning rod and
seperate pistol grip) and a AWB compliant AK47 (no bayonet
lug, no muzzle brake, no cleaning rod, and thumbhole stock)
by firing the pre-ban into a cinder block wall (making big holes)
then firing the compliant AK47 into the dirt while showing
the cinder blocks unscathed.
It was a totally bogus comparison, even CNN caught on to it,
but most non-gun people are easily duped by the fear-mongers.
(what has the presence of a cleaning rod under the barrel got
to do with lethality of weapon anyway, even though it is a
"military feature"?)
Josh Sugarman of National Coalition to Ban Handguns (now
Violence Policy Center) did remark that the general public
is easily duped about the semi-auto/machinegun confusion
and during the AWB even Fox News showed full-auto Uzis
blazing away in video while the voice-over talked about
banning semi-autos.