Without having all the facts it doesn’t look like a choke hold to me! This maybe like calling a civilian semiautomatic rifle an assault rifle. because it looks like M4 carbine (which is a short barred version of the military M-16). The big difference is the the M-16 or M4 can fire auto meaning when the trigger is pulled and held the rifle will fire until the magazine is empty. All civilian version require a trigger pull for each round fired just like the old western 6 shooters. Define the word and you define the message!