Meet the Weird SKS Rifle: ... C.J. Chivers noted in his 2010 history The Gun, as to whether or not a visiting Chinese delegation to the Soviet Union was furious at seeing the SKS under production.

Although the debacle of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 would expose the weapon’s limitations and force the Chinese army to upgrade its small arms to the Type 81 rifle, an AK-47/SKS hybrid.

A great many Chinese SKS carbines have come into the United States, along with many from the other nations that adopted them. The SKS is a semi-automatic-only design chambered for the 7.62x39 mm ...

Officials said that the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump left an AK-47, but weapons experts said it was an SKS rifle.

An AR-15 is a semi-automatic or self-loading rifle that has been called "America's rifle" by the NRA with well over 15 million sold by 2019. An AR-15 is not a specific model, but a style.