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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Chinese Type 56 SKS carbine
Seen slung over the shoulders of Taliban guards at a public execution of adulterers.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingChinese 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.
