Why do I have the feeling the weapon in question was not automatic in nature?
Sheriff's deputies records show the victims called 9-1-1 sometime around 9:30 p.m., telling emergency operators they had been robbed at gunpoint. One man held the victims at bay with his sub-machine gun, while the other suspect pistol-whipped the man with a Desert Eagle .45 caliber handgun and demanded his jewelry, the victims told deputies.
Being that machine guns are highly regulated and these two oxygen wasters probably couldn't have passed the rather intense background scrutiny required to own a Class III firearm, I'm betting the weapon in question only looked like something that might shoot more than one round per pull of the trigger.
Of course, to do any serious reporting, a journalist would have to both do some research and not use such lovely grammar as
Reports show none of the victims was injured.
That be good! Layers of editing, my ass.