one flaw in India's small arms discourse is that journos end up firing automatic guns, which ends being journos trying to talk on behalf of the fire arm rather than allowing the gun to speak for itself. the gun speaking for itself would be putting it thru paces on record like range, grouping, recoil etc.
since our civilians including journos "not allowed" to own fire arms, and even if they do they can't fire enough rounds to reach a stage of expertise in handling automatic rifles, ammo is not cheap even for a regular middle class family in non-prohibited bore. so it leaves recently retired officers who fired enough rounds up until recently are the only ones with enough muscle memory and familiarity with weapons handling, who can allow the weapon to speak for itself at a company's firing range.
all this does not matter since there is no civilian market for automatic weapons, but apparently public opinions do matter, since public tends to imagine things usually on the negative side when there are gaps in information. so might as well, have best possible relevant information in public domain instead of cheap tricks like full auto and slomo shots courtesy of journos.