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==Chinese Type 56 SKS carbine==
==Chinese Type 56 SKS carbine==
Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers.
Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers.
[[Image:ChineseType56Carbine.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm.  The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their AK47 copies - the Type 56 assault rifle.  This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch Arisaka Type 99 rifles at the end of WW2.  Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.]]


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Revision as of 03:13, 14 May 2009

The firearms that were seen in the 2007 movie The Kite Runner include the following...

Norinco Type 56 assault rifle

Used by the Taliban in Afghanistan. A number of Red Army soldiers were also seen armed with Norinco Type 56 rifles (since the film was made in China, the production crew didn't have access to genuine Russian-made Kalashnikov rifles and had to use Chinese ones instead) during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan

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Norinco Type 56 (fixed stock variant) with under-folding bayonet ("pig sticker") - 7.62x39mm
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Norinco Type 56 (Imported into the U.S. as the Norinco AKS-47 or AKS-47 Sporter) - 7.62x39mm. This particular gun lacks the "pig sticker" bayonet seen on the model above, which was standard on PLA-issue Type 56s, but much rarer on the export versions.
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Norinco Type 56-1 (under-folding stock variant) - 7.62x39mm
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Norinco Type 56-2 (side-folding stock variant) - 7.62x39mm

Chinese Type 56 SKS carbine

Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers.

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Chinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their AK47 copies - the Type 56 assault rifle. This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch Arisaka Type 99 rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.