What does AW stand for?

Automatic Weapons

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

38 revolvers and 9mm semi automatic weapons -- all of which are used on the streets of UK towns and cities by gangs and car-jackers.

FOR the person who has [...]; MOTORING

Both sides were using heavy and automatic weapons against each other.

Clashes between two rival groups leave nine dead in Khyber agency

AUSTRALIAN police said yesterday that they have thwarted a terrorist plot in which Somali extremists planned to invade a military base and open fire with automatic weapons until they were shot dead themselves.

Australian police say terror plot thwarted

However, when the area was being sealed militants attacked the search party with automatic weapons.

Militant killed in encounter in south Kashmir

The convoy of players, officials and coaches on their way to the second Test match in Lahore on March 3 was ambushed by gunmen firing automatic weapons, grenades and a rocket launcher.

Mendis out of hospital after Lahore attacks

They fire off the automatic weapons they've stolen from the local mob, finally using a grenade launcher to explode a shack into flames.

Reality Gomorrah rejects the myths of the gangster film

Investigators also allege that Pelham Police Chief Edward Fleury, owner of the company that sponsored the show, was wrong when he told two Connecticut men that it was legal for children to fire automatic weapons at a gun fair in Massachusetts.

Tragic complacency; Lack of vigilance played role in gun tragedy

Canada acknowledged its responsibility to impose additional control on the export of automatic weapons when it established the Automatic Firearms Country Control List in 1991.

Putting the control in Canada's Automatic Firearms Country Control ...