It might be Jeff, and yet... A burst of automatic-weapon fire ripped through the house as Hal kicked savagely against the door twice.

People like Meg Cassidy don't normally develop the kind of enemies who blow up offices and then escape in a hail of automatic-weapon fire.

The man's colleagues opened up with a storm of automatic-weapon fire, splintering the long wooden table to pieces and sending papers flying everywhere.

Far-off automatic-weapon fire echoed through the hills, drawing Schneider's attention.

Minutes after a 7 P.M. curfew began tonight, bursts of automatic-weapon fire could be heard downtown, and shooting continued through the night.

Way off on his right, Felix heard the chatter of automatic-weapon fire.

"The shooting took place in bursts of unaimed automatic-weapon fire from the hip, spraying a large area," the group's report said.

Shouting voices could be heard along the canal we had crossed, punctuated by the sharp cracking sound of automatic-weapon fire, this time on the ground.

He heard three short bursts of automatic-weapon fire, then silence.

Within seconds, two terrorists, in front and behind him, emptied their thirty-round magazines of 9-millimeter automatic-weapon fire on him.