Around 5:20 p.m., one boy found a Lorcin 9-millimeter semiautomatic gun, the boys told the police.

A1 A ban on semiautomatic guns and multiple-bullet gun clips was overwhelmingly rejected by the House.

The most radical measures call for confiscating certain semiautomatic guns.

Two men had been fighting, and one, who the police said was 23, fired shots from a revolver and from a semiautomatic gun.

When he was frisked, officials said, they found a semiautomatic gun, and they arrested him on gun possession charges.

Helmeted patrolmen stood in the streets with semiautomatic guns.

Concern about the safety of bystanders has been the source of much of the opposition to semiautomatic guns in New York.

Independent statistics on the use of semiautomatic guns and problems they may create are not readily available.

Mr. Bush's package, which would cost about $1.2 billion, includes increasing mandatory prison terms for use of semiautomatic guns in violent crimes or drug felonies.

Yet improved medical care has been somewhat offset by the increasing deadliness of the semiautomatic guns now favored by criminals.