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Soviet ended sks production in 1958-- with a total of 2.5-2.7million produced at 2 arsenals.
Type56 production ended in 1984, but the Chinese were still turning out standard configuration SKS carbines dated as late as 2009 (and possibly later).
--20million+ carbines produced over
--30years of military production and a
--Massive cache of NOS parts from nearly
--200 arsenals and factories.
That's why NIB commercial sks's are still available from China.
Ok, good thing these were not commercial variants. Military type 56. I also have a commercial norinco and they are different. Any other comments from the "expert"? Its never too late to admit you are wrong... but like i said, you dont know what you are talking about.
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