@alyx @Awoo Again in recent decades in the U.S., more autistic authors and those working for the government started to move away from "automatic", although not because of itself, but because they wanted to disambiguate "pistol". So, they started to use "handgun" to mean "a generic pistol", "pistol" to mean "automatic", and "revolver" remained as it was, only now it's a type of handgun instead of a type of pistol. This does not necessarily apply to Romania though. In fact, they may be using a completely different taxonomy. For example, Russians use the word "avtomat" to denote a class of weapons that encompasses both larger submachine guns and assault rifles. In the same time, they also have a proper name for submachine guns, "pistolet-pulemyot", which overlaps with "avtomat" but only applies to pistol caliber weapons.... including pistols capable of fully automatic fire (such as Stechkin). In short, without knowing Romanian terms, I cannot draw any conclusions about the headline we're supposed to be mocking.