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The extreme temperatures, gas, and friction produced during gunfire typically destroy any biological residue.

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The police and suspected gang members traded heavy gunfire.

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Another clip showed his clerk—a relative—cowering behind the counter as gunfire erupted outside.

At least 40 people were killed and 300,000 forced to flee their homes as soldiers traded gunfire, fighter jets launched sorties and rocket barrages rained down.

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Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the driver of a U-Haul truck reversed toward security officers who responded with a volley of gunfire, wounding the motorist and a civilian nearby.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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