Chinese Type 56 AK-47 (Shooting and History)

One of the most common types of AK rifle in existence today is the Chinese Type 56 in its several variations, although very few of those rifles are in the United States in authentic full-auto form. This particular one was captured by a US soldier in the Vietnam War, who brought it back and registered it, making it a fully transferrable gun. The Chinese received the technical package for the AK (and also the SKS, among other weapons) from the Soviet Union in the 1950s,
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