Norinco type 81 nr-81 being made again

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Type 97 Long range version with 25.5 inch barrel. /\ /\ /\

Carbine Type 97 \/ \/ \/

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"Regular" Type 97 \/ \/ \/

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And the "Norinco NR-81s"

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03/08/2014 - IWA 2014 / New from Norinco: NR-81S semi-automatic 7.62x39mm caliber rifle system

No... it's not an AK derivative, not exactly. One of the first indigenous Chinese assault rifles, the Type 81 entered service in the early 1980s with the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police and remained in the front lines well into the 2000s, with millions manufactured and sold to armed forces around the globe as well.

Aesthetically patterned after an AK, but based upon a Simonov SKS-type short-stroke piston system with some recoil reduction improvements, the Type 81 was first made in a civilian version in the late 1980s; it was listed as "available" on the United States market only for a few months, though, before being banned from import in 1989.

Now, after many years of hiatus, the North China Industries Corporation (NORINCO) is finally reprising the concept and launching a new semi-automatic civilian version of the Type 81 assault rifle platform, under the NR-81 brand name.
Chambered for the 7.62x39mm round and fed through AK-type magazines, the NR-81 rifles are fully manufactured out of steel, with brown plastic being used only for the furniture.

There are three variants available: the NR-81S and NR-81S1 sport the same frame and 45cm. barrel, but while the model 81S comes with a fixed stock, the 81S1 variant sports a side-folding metal stock with a plastic insert. The Model NR-81S2 is instead a civilian variant of the Type 81 LMG, sporting a different stock and a long, heavy-profile barrel with a folding bipod.
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Norinco NR-81s = fixed stock rifle
Norinco NR-81s1 = folding stock rifle
Norinco NR-81s2 = semi auto version of the LMG with folding bipod.

I'll take a fixed stock and LMG please!!! Hahaha
 
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Very interested to see the price of these things.
I'm sure the RCMP will eventually either Prohib it or NR it.

I wonder at the price though, I'm estimating $999 for no other reason than that this is Canada, dealers can sell it for whatever they want and people will still take out a second mortgage to buy it :(

I'd love to see it in the $600 dollar range. Then we could get 2 or 3 in every household like the SKS.

It could become the new "Peoples Liberation Rifle of the Free Democratic Republic of Canada".

Ahhh dreams :)
 
wd113 said:
Call me old school.... I like a nice wood stock. Somebody will have an aftermarket kit for them...
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Even elmer fudds would turn their nose at crate wood its the softest crap and id rather ns bring it in to be honest they know how to get things done, ti's buisiness model would ruin this for alot of people
 
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