What does CCW stand for?

HorsieHung

May 10, 2003 10:04

If it's Concealed Carry Weapon, or Carry Concealed Weapon,that's not grammatically correct. Shouldn't it be called a CWP or CWL (concealed weapons permit/license?)


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I would rather be held by 3 skinny cheerleaders, than carried by 6, judged by 12, what ever else you guys say.

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  Alpine

  May 10, 2003 12:57

  It is a Carrying Concealed Weapon permit. I haven't seen a regular one in several years. However my retired sheriff's department ID just has "CCW authorized" on the back.
  
  "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."

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  JudgeColt

  May 10, 2003 16:06

  In my experience, the term is most often used to identify the crime of "Carrying Concealed Weapon," and is sometimes used to identify a permit to carry as in "CCW permit."

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  Rafter-S

  May 10, 2003 20:14

  It is also a MIL STANDARD abbreviation of "counter clockwise." You see it on potentiometers in old electronics gear.
  
  Now there's a piece of trivia for ya.
  
  Rafter-S
  
  "What is truth? No wonder jesting Pilate turned away. The truth, it has a thousand faces -- show only one of them, and the whole truth flies away! But how to show the whole? That is the question."
  --Thomas Wolfe, "You Can't Go Home Again" (1934)

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