Reply #45: I'm still leaning toward "it wasn't an AK-47 at all"

[slackmaster]

I was being charitable when I said the media "often" gets it wrong. Firearms initially reported as AK-47s usually turn out to be something much less controversial.

Why would it be anywhere near a kid?

The fact that it's a relatively expensive weapon (at least a legal semi-automatic civilian variant) makes me doubt that the person who owns it would have been so careless as to make it easy for the kid to get it.