The Type 63 was China’s 1960s attempt to blend the SKS’s accuracy and short-stroke gas system with the AK’s rotating bolt and ...

Both weapons became the weapon-of-choice for guerrilla warfare and are still being used in conflicts around the globe, even 70 years after their conception. In the late 1940s, the Soviet army was ...

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Here’s What You Need To Remember: Taken all together, the SKS was a great improvement over its predecessors, most especially the aged Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle. The SKS was lighter, had double ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. A reference to one type of ammunition used in the AK-47 has been removed.) The suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, ran for it but he ...