"gunfire attack" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an attack by shooting weapons with bullets, usually by a group of people. Example sentence: The police responded to the gunfire attack on the shopping mall.
Sao Paulo's state police force was the target of gunfire attack on an unprecedented scale.
Then, an Israeli tank responding to a bomb and gunfire attack on a settlers' convoy in the Gaza Strip rolled over a mine.
Some store owners on the block had just replaced windows broken in the gunfire attack on Tuesday, only to see them shattered again today.
Late tonight, a heavy exchange of fire broke out in Hebron between Palestinians and the Israeli military, after two Israelis were seriously wounded in a Palestinian gunfire attack.
Benazir Bhutto, a two-time former prime minister, assassinated in a suicide and gunfire attack in late 2007, was allegedly among their victims.For the next 18 months or so, the news from the frontier was grim.
Dr. Abu Akram, who runs a makeshift hospital at Mua'adamiyat Al-Sham, told the Guardian's Mona Mahmood (@monamood) that the arrival of the inspectors was delayed by four hours because of the gunfire attack on their convoy.
BAGHDAD — A series of bomb blasts and gunfire attacks swept Iraq on Wednesday, mostly targeting Shiites who were marking one of their holiest religious events.
During a visit to a town in northern Gaza that was hit during a recent Israeli military occupation, the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, above left, called recent Palestinian gunfire attacks on Israelis an attempt to sabotage peace efforts.
Under official ban by the French government since 1982, Direct Action made bomb or gunfire attacks on various "capitalist" targets, such as employers' association offices and factories, and various public targets, such as police stations, magistrate courts, and military sites.
President Paul Kagame and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, lit a flame at the Kigali genocide memorial centre, which estimates that more than 1 million Rwandans perished in three months of machete and gunfire attacks, mostly by extremist Hutus on the country's minority Tutsi population.
While the bomb and gunfire attacks in Jakarta were continuing a picture emerged of a gunman on the streets.
