AKS Assault Rifle?

[gtrlspl]

I was reading the paper this morning and there was an article about a man going to prison for a probation violation. I guess he has new gun and drug charges for what police found in his home.

South Bend Tribune: South Bend man is headed to prison

The paper said police found "an AKS assault rifle." Is there such thing? I've never heard of one and just assumed they were wrong and meant a SKS. Not to mention the fact it isn't an assault rifle because it doesn't have selective fire.

Any clues?

 

[Colt556]

My AKS is 5.56MM. Great rifle.

 

[downzero]

AKS is usually just an SKS with a detachable magazine.

 

[Shootin'IN]

The meda calls any military type gun an Assault Rifle.
You could change the stock on your .22 and they would call it an Assault Rifle.
That is like calling any car with more than 4cyls a racecar.

 

[shooter521]

AKS is usually just an SKS with a detachable magazine.

An SKS that can accept AK magazines would be an SKS-D or SKS-M.

"AKS" was the designation used for certain Polytech Kalashnikov-pattern rifles imported in the 80s and early 1990s.

 

[Colt556]

My AKS is a Norinco Type 84S rifle in 5.56x45 with an under folding stock.

 

[indykid]

Just remember how a "journalist" sees weapons

 

[Kirk Freeman]

AKS is usually just an SKS with a detachable magazine

O.K., which gun shop told you this? You guys have to stop listening to the gun store clerks and owners. Geez, now I know how to get people to listen to me . . . stand behind a gun counter.

*Professor Freeman, Professor of Russian and Gunology, enters the INGO classroom*

Excuse me while I put on my leather jacket with tweed elbow patches, or is that tweed jacket with . . . nevermind. Now, class let us turn to the blackboard:

AKS-47=Avtomat Kalishnikova, Skladnoy-Sorok Sem'

Automatic of Kalishnikov, Folding-Forty-Seven

Skladnoy is the adjective form of the Russian word for fold, "folding".

AKS=an AK that has a folding stock.

rhino! Quit passing notes. You have to stay after class and write "I am not a mall ninja" in Russian on the board 223 times.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

down,

SKS=>Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova which means self-loading carbine system of Simonov (adding the "a" to the last names in Kalishnikov and Simonov makes it possessive).

Now, you must excuse me, Professor Freeman has *ahem* office hours with a tall, blonde graduate student.

 

[LEaSH]

Kirk is the coolest.

 

[shooter521]

Kirk is the coolest.

Teacher's pet.