The phrase "training weapon" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any kind of weapon used for training or practice, such as a practice sword or a fake gun. For example, "I brought a training weapon to the sword-fighting class so that I could practice without injuring anyone."
A month ago, for example, a group of college students were at a meeting of a criminal-justice club in Texas when a student accidentally fired a real gun, rather than a training weapon.
Standing in front of a rack of blades, Mr. Longenbach showed me the three weapons used in competition: the foil, the flexible, 40-inch-long, 16-ounce training weapon best suited for beginners; the epee, heavier and more rigid; and the saber, a curved blade adapted from the old cavalry weapon.
Thus, Experiment 2 was a 3 (change: agent, environment, or object; within-subjects) × 2 (training: weapon or ball; between-subjects) × 2 (search: weapon or ball; between-subjects) design.
Mean RTs for correctly identified trials for each participant were entered into a 2 (training: weapon or ball; between-subjects) × 2 (search: weapon or ball; between-subjects) × 3 (change: agent, object, or environment) ANOVA.
A student confused a training weapon with a real one and fired a bullet through a classroom wall.
A student confused a training weapon with a real one and fired a bullet through a classroom wall.
Al Qaeda operatives have to pay for their own training, weapons, and room and board.
Whatever outside support was provided beyond air strikes – training, weapons, finance have all been mentioned – was kept quiet.
It deliberately supported through military training, weapons provision and economic aid the genocidal regime and its genocidal project before, during and after the genocide.
The already formidable fighters were now equipped with training, weapons and, in some cases, a Qaddafi-bred hatred of the West and of their own governments.
Because the Defense Department will have only seven months to put them into effect and because military personnel are protected, military training, weapons acquisition and maintenance stand to be cut by 13 percent.
