Norinco vs not Norinco, is there such a thing

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I am wondering about the use of "Norinco SKS" to describe the Chinese SKS. Are all Chinese SKSs, regardless of factory, a "Norinco SKS"? I don't give a damn what the CFC registration card says, I wonder if technically they really are "Norinco" or not.

I was under the impression that Factory26 was Norinco and the other factories weren't? :confused:
 
Isn't Norinco a conglomerate, handling a wide variety of products, many non-firearm related?
 
It's a surplus gun. Many wer made before Chinese set up Norinco. I guess Norinco got those guns from warehouse....it doesn't say "made by Norinco".

See this (from Google):

The NORINCO Group is one of China's ten defense-industrial enterprises (jungong qiye) which report to the State Council; it does not have any formal ties to the PLA, although NORINCO is an important military supplier. NORINCO was created in the early 1980's as the export arm of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Industry (5MMI); in 1982, 5MMI was renamed the Ministry of Ordnance Industry. NORINCO was "corporatized" in 1988 as the China Ordnance Industry Corporation (COIC), but due to name recognition issues, the name NORINCO remained in use (or alternatively, the NORINCO Group.)
 
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Proutfoo said:
So theoretically my Factory106 SKS is _not_ a Norinco? :confused:
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If it was never stamped Norinco, then they didn't build it, but they prob' bought your rifle as an amalgamated surplus, and -may have- done some refurbishing on it. It also prob' cost them pennys for our older SKSs...as Milsurp is often sold world wide as Scrap metal by the ton.
 
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