The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives classifies the SKS rifle that some sources believe Micah Johnson used to kill five Dallas police officers on July 7 a "Curio or Relic." Due ...

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** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** A. The Albanian SKS is a rather ...

Both weapons became the weapon-of-choice for guerrilla warfare and are still being used in conflicts around the globe, even 70 years after their conception. In the late 1940s, the Soviet army was ...

If asked about the 7.62x39mm cartridge (aka the 7.62 Soviet and .30 Russian Short), the first firearm that comes to mind is almost certainly the Avtomat Kalashnikova, i.e., the AK-47 assault rifle.

Key Point: This rifle has been spread widely, even though it is less known compared to other early-to-mid twentieth century weapons. Here is its strange history. The most iconic rifle of the 20th ...

The SKS, short for Self-Loading Carbine of the Simonov System, is the odd one out. Developed in the interim between the Mosin-Nagant and the AK-47, Sergei Simonov’s semi-automatic carbine had a mere ...