The Type 56C is the final iteration of Chinese Kalashnikov, originally intended for export but primarily used by Chinese police and special forces. It is a short-barreled carbine with a folding stock, and remarkably few standard AK parts. The receiver takes a number of cues from the Type 81 rifle, and is shorter and has different geometry than the standard AKM stamped receiver. The gas block includes an adjustable gas plug, and the sights are also reminiscent of the Type 81.
Bolt Action Rifles
Chinese Mystery Mauser: Fake FN Model 30
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Prototype
Ole Krag’s Experimental Pistol: Made By Norinco
In 1908, Ole Krag (the same man associated with the Krag-Jorgensen rifle) applied for a US patent on an automatic pistol design. This design, along with many others, would be submitted to the Norwegian military […]
Semiauto Rifles
Infiltrating America: The Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifle
The Type 93 Chinese assault rifle is a development of the Type 56 Kalashnikov, produced by the People’s Liberation Army of the PRC. While the Type 93 designation suggests that the design originated in 1993, […]
This is probably a better choice for a police/paramilitary primary weapon than a lot of other things I could think of, to include pistols.
I do have to wonder about the muzzle flash, though… How good a job does that flash hider do?
If they ever straighten out our laws on the issue here in the US, this would be a good model to use building a “truck gun” for a lot of folks. A lot of cops would also benefit from having one to hand, as well.
Given that Illinois is presently w lying to decriminalize assault on a police officer, I would say the laws won’t be straightened out anytime soon
Indeed, quite a number of people who had been convicted of assaulting police officers were recently pardoned in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack_defendants
In the interests of accuracy, numerous police officers on that same date were not charged or indicted for use of excessive force or outright murder, either.
I had thoughts about that whole thing that were along the lines of the “conventional wisdom”, but then I looked at ALL of the evidence. At this point, about all I can say is that we were all lied to, about damn near everything involved.
The then-Speaker of the House and the Capitol Police did not cover themselves in glory, that day.
On 6 January insurrection was the only honorable choice. What the Amis did though was a fumbling disturbance. The prosrcutions were the draconian revenge of an illegitimate junta. And I despite Trump. WTFU
The whole thing was, as near as I can tell, stage-managed from the beginning. The evidence is out there in things like the amateurish abortive pipe-bombing of the elective vice-president’s location, and the refusal to activate the National Guard.
At the time, I said the whole thing was a trap, and the smartest thing to do was not walk into it. The rubes did, and here we are… What’s interesting is to observe that “learning has occurred” with regards to Trump, and his second administration is markedly better organized on assumption of its duties.
Where it ends? Nobody is going to know for several decades, but it is delicious to observe the chaos and note how all the chickens are coming home to roost, with regards to people not staying in their lanes. If Congress actually winds up taking back its rights and duties from the unelected minions in the executive branch, and the Judiciary sticks its collective head into the noose as they seem to be doing, we’re going to be a lot better off going forward. The Constitution only works if you follow the damn thing, and we haven’t been doing that since at least FDR…
If nothing else, the entertainment value is “yuge…“
The 2020 election was not stolen. The insurrection was an attempt to stop the legislature from performing its Constitutional duty. Trump was watching from the Oval Office waiting like a coward for his chance to exploit the situation. If hostages had been taken, he might have used his own followers’ terrorism as an excuse to declare martial law and invalidate the completion of that vote, but the congressmen were 90 seconds too fast.
South Korea gets it.
It’s clear from your other comments that you only consider the police above the law when they’re doing the bidding of right-wingers. In Florida you’re allowed to plow a truck into protesters because in America those are likely to be left-wingers. Maybe soon we’ll let cops gun down strikers again like in the Good Old Days.
You want the 19th century back, then you’ll get the violent part of that too.
我很好奇，这把枪是怎么流入到美国的
I’m curious about how this gun ended up in the United States.
Well, I can’t tell you much, all I can tell you a few small details. You’ll have to fill in the rest on your own.
* A red 1984 Ford pickup
* A 93-year-old Mexican taco truck salesman
* Three seashells.
That’s all I can say, but it’s pretty easy to put together.
“L for semi-aut, D for full auto”
– why they decided swap these settings?
Turpin [to honor the STEN?], a really good question. When being drafted into Bundeswehr, I always wondered why each weapon from pistol to Carl Gustav had its own variant of how to apply the safety.
My favourite “why” is the FN MAG grip assembly, which Ernest Vervier took from the MG42. (I have no problem with that.) But, he switched Safe and Fire positions of the crossbolt safety. Why? What was the intended improvement over German practice?
P.S. Thinking of it, the French Mle 52 machine gun also used the MG42 grip with switched Safe and Fire.
It’s the same with automotive control conventions. Everybody has to be different; nobody can settle on a standard.
I think it is also a sign of technological/civilizational immaturity: If they were freakin’ adults, then the various “authority” figures in all of these arenas would recognize that different interfaces on everything are outright dangerous. I once had to get into a car that was new to me in the middle of the night, and then spend several hours driving it in blinding snow on a mountain pass… Damn near killed myself before I finally had to stop, dig out the owner’s manual, and spend about fifteen-twenty minutes figuring out where all the switches were and what they did.
This is (quite literally…) stupidity on wheels. It’s all over the small arms world, as well; you can catalog innumerable instances of “different for difference’s sake…” throughout the whole thing, and it just annoys the ever-loving snot out of anyone who has to do training.
Your controls should either have all their “differences” designed out, or they ought to conform to some universally agreed-upon standard. If I go to pick up something, then the controls ought to be consistent, and actually work the way someone would think they should.
All too much of this crap is cultural, too: There’s no real reason we use “red for danger” to denote a ready-to-fire control configuration… You could just as arbitrarily assign the “red for danger” to “not ready to fire”, ideating that the actual danger there is that the weapon isn’t capable of functioning in your defense… If you look around, all of this is gravitating towards a unified field theory of operation, but it takes literal generations of design and use before everyone is on-board with the whole thing, and the underlying assumptions/principals are well understood, not to mention well-penetrated into society.
I mean, think about it: Red light stop, green light go… In traffic. Now, do firearms: Red means “ready to go”, and any other color/position means “stop/nonfunctional”. Does that make sense? Would a space alien from planet Reason be able to figure that dichotomy out, or would they likely have a hell of a lot of “negligent discharges” in the course of handling our weapons?
All of this basically happened by accident. I would strongly suggest that just maybe, we might want to think about putting everything on a more rational and consistent basis.
This has interesting 3 hole handguard, that is only present in yugoslavian/serbian AK variant.