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Type 53

This is a Chinese copy of the Soviet Model 1944 Mosin-Nagant carbine. Production began in 1953. Early models up to 1959 have Chinese characters for the model designation stamped on the receiver. Rifles made after 1959 do not have these characters. Chinese rifles have the bolt, magazine, floorplate, and buttplate serial-numbered to the rifle. Production ended sometime in the early 1960s.

Type 53 Rifle

Type 56 Carbine (SKS)

A 7.62x39mm semi-automatic rifle with a 20.5" barrel and 10-shot fixed magazine. Blued with oil finished stock. The early Chinese military issue Type 56 rifles came with a blade bayonet. Later models had the spike bayonet. Price listed is for used Type 56 made for the Chinese military. Some were brought back from Viet Nam, others were imported in the late 1980s.

Norinco SKS

Same as above, but made for export sales to the U.S. Will have “Norinco” or other importer’s name on the receiver. They have a orange colored wood stock. At first they were imported with a spike bayonet, then the U.S. government ruled that the attached bayonet violated the “Sporting use” definition in federal law. Later importation had no mounting bracket for the bayonet.