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Surplus SKS carbines are available in their original chambering for sale to any Russian citizen with a rifle purchase permit. [70] The bayonet must be removed, and an additional pin added to the barrel, to modify the SKS sufficiently from its status as a military arm and render it legal for civilian sales. [ 71 ]
Like its predecessors, the Type 81 is a series of weapons. The Type 81 (fixed stock) and Type 81-1 (folding stock) are 7.62×39mm caliber assault rifles with 30-round magazines, and the heavier Type 81 light machine gun (LMG) fitted with a 75-round drum magazine is used in the squad automatic weapon (SAW) role. [11]
The Zastava M59/66 PAP is identical in function and operation to the Soviet SKS in nearly every respect, except its ability to launch 22mm rifle grenades from an integral grenade launcher spigot mounted at the front of the barrel. [7] The rifle has been fitted with a folding ladder sight for use in launching grenades. [7]
(9) A semiautomatic centerfire firearm that is not a rifle, pistol, or shotgun, that does not have a fixed magazine, but that has any one of the following: (A) A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon. (B) A thumbhole stock. (C) A folding or telescoping stock. (D) A grenade launcher or flare launcher.
SKS semi-automatic rifles were used by the guerrillas before the full introduction of AK-47 and AKM assault rifles. Type 63 assault rifle. MAS-49/56 carbine [363] MAS-49 rifle [364] SKS [342] [53] [365] Type 56 semi-automatic rifle: Chinese copy of the Soviet SKS. [342] [53] Type 63 assault rifle; vz. 52 rifle [342]
The new weapon had to incorporate a wooden stock and folding bayonet similar to those of the SKS for close quarters fighting. [8] It also needed to be manufactured with the same tooling equipment as the SKS and AK-47 for logistical reasons, as the Chinese government wished to adapt its pre-existing production lines for the new rifle. [9]
They consist of the KLS (AKM wooden stock) and the KLF (AKM folding stock). [27] MAZ – Sudanese licensed copy of the Type 56 made by Military Industry Corporation. ASh78 (Automatiku Shqiptar 78) – Albanian licensed copy of the Type 56. [28] TUL-1 - North Vietnamese-made variant, but with stock of an RPK, barrel sights from an RPD. [29]
After World War II, both Type 38s and Type 44s captured from the IJA were converted to use the 7.62×39mm cartridge since the PLA was being equipped with AK and SKS rifles in that caliber. [2] Two versions of the converted Type 38s and Type 44s consisted of rifles with just a SKS barrel or of a SKS barrel with a front stock cap and folding ...