The fire did not destroy all the equipment at the gun factory.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

"I cannot fire the first gun of the war."

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Sounds of heavy and light machine gun fire rattled Maiduguri as Nigeria's army pounded suspected hideouts of the Islamic rebels in a bid to flush out remnants of the militant Boko Haram sect.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30