Instead, they’re apparently illegal, patent-infringing variants of the stamped AKM. That’s because the Chinese did not pay a royalty, nor did they get tooling, from the USSR to make the weapons. If you ask the then Soviet Union, the MAK-90 is not an AK. For example, our friends in Canada can get a Norinco copy of the M14 that was, supposedly, made from reverse-engineered copies of rifles captured in Vietnam. Norinco is the government-owned armory for the Chinese: they’ve also been exporting civilian arms for years, many of them copies of other nations’ designs. The main distinction of the MAK-90 is that it was only ever made in semi-automatic, making it eligible for importation, for example, into the lucrative private firearms market in the USA. These came in about any configuration you can think of, from unfolding, short-barreled models for tank crews to long-barreled versions sporting big stocks and bipods. Many MAK90s were made on the stamped Type-56 receivers, which are the Chinese variant of the AKM. From the Chinese perspective, these guns are, in effect, AK47s.
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