Posted on 06/03/2009 9:49:55 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Unlikely. First of all the SKS is not an assault rifle, it's a simple semiautomatic carbine. There is no full auto version, even the ones issued to various militaries and "insurgent" groups were all semiautomatic. Second, the Russian ones are pretty rare in the US. Chinese wer very common before importation was banned, now Yugoslavian versions are most often seen, but those from eastern european former Soviet block states are also seen. But not Soviet built ones. Of course the original design did come from the Soviet union, SKS stands for Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова), 1945 (Self-loading Carbine, Simonov's system, 1945),
lol True.
Yeah, he could have definitely done some damage with that drum mag.
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