1.   The rare smoothbore Winchester rifle fired tiny particles of shot rather than a single bullet.

2.   Pepper hopes that new forensic methods will prove that the rifle did not fire the fatal shot.

3.   -- and fired their rifles into the air, scattering frightened onlookers.

4.   Automatic rifles fired in celebration, spitting still-warm bullet casings into a crowd of barefoot boys who scooped them up to warm their hands.

5.   In the first attempt, Friedman said, he could not get his rifle to fire.

6.   The rifle fired and his friend fell.

7.   Palestinian gunmen opened rifle fire Thursday evening on Gilo, a Jewish settlement in annexed east Jerusalem, an Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP.