1.   The battle did not last long, bursts of automatic fire interspersed with the sharp purposeful cracks of single shots.

2.   Almost all the victims were gunned down in blazes of automatic fire -- the chosen tactic of mafiosi seeking to display their power.

3.   At his desk, Ehud Barak could hear the staccato bursts of automatic fire coming from up the block on Sunday.

4.   After exchanging automatic fire with the Russian forces, the militants began to pull back.

5.   Almost all were killed by automatic fire.

6.   Fully automatic firearms and semiautomatics capable of being converted to fully automatic fire are prohibited.

7.   Guns that are fully automatic fire continuously as long as the trigger is pulled and held, but they are illegal for civilian use.

8.   In November, a group of Albanians attacked a checkpoint with automatic fire, the Serbian police said.

9.   One group answered automatic fire coming from a grocery store.