The Type 63 was China’s 1960s attempt to blend the SKS’s accuracy and short-stroke gas system with the AK’s rotating bolt and detachable magazine, resulting in a rifle with SKS-like layout and ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Taken all together, the SKS was a great improvement over its predecessors, most especially the aged Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifle. The SKS was lighter, had double ...

The rifle used in the attack that left a congressman and four other people wounded on a baseball field is a Soviet-era relic that is widely available in the United States and was used in another mass ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. A reference to one type of ammunition used in the AK-47 has been removed.) The suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, ran for it but he ...

The 7.62×39mm was a much more manageable round thanks to its much lower recoil. The SKS also had a 10-round non-detachable magazine that was loaded via a stripper clip. Compared to the Mosin-Nagant, ...

A prominent gun-control group says the federal government’s buyback of “assault-style” firearms will be a waste of money unless it includes a prohibition of the semi-automatic SKS rifle. Since May ...