Type 56 assault rifle

The Chinese Type 56 assault rifle (manufactured by China North Industries Corporation, or Norinco) is by far the most commonly-seen AK derivative utilized in Hollywood productions, both film and television. These are frequently seen used as a substitute for Russian AKs in many films, as the Russians never sold a civilian AK model in the U.S. (or Europe) during the latter half of the 20th century. Most of the movie prop rental houses in Hollywood had dozens if not hundreds of Chinese AKs - mostly the Type 56s (7.62x39mm version) or the similar Type 84s (5.56x45mm version). These were usually semi-automatic civilian versions (commonly designated "AK47S" or "AKS47" by the importers), in many cases converted to full-auto by Class III manufacturers.

History in Cinema: Prior to 1982, importing firearms and equipment from 'communist' nations was illegal at the federal level in the United States. In 1983 the list of prohibited countries from which to receive weapons from (for the civilian market) was amended due to special trade agreements signed between the USA and China & Yugoslavia. Around the same time, Egypt managed to bypass the "commie gun ban' by offering their MISR (the ARM or the civilian version of the soviet AKM) to the west being that Egypt was a non communist nation, making the weapon under license. After 1983, the flood gates opened, with AKs and SKS variants being available to the USA until the first import ban in 1989 (a political response to the Stockton Schoolyard shooting of 1989). But the vast majority of American movie armories AKs came from this time span where Chinese weapons were easily obtainable. After the fall of the wall and the Soviet Union in 1990, the Cold War era LAW banning import of weapons from Communist nations (for the most part) was no longer relevant. Then Americans started seeing AK variants from Romanian, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and any other former warsaw pact nation that decided to sell their weapons to the US Market. The import of AK and SKS variants from Eastern European nations was later banned by then president Obama.

There are three main variants of the Type 56 - the standard Type 56, which has a fixed stock, the Type 56-1, which has an under-folding stock, and the Type 56-2, which has a side-folding stock. Most fixed-stock Type 56 rifles have an under-folding spike bayonet, known as the "pig sticker"; this rifle is often seen in movies about the Vietnam War, and is correct for NVA throughout most of the conflict. Quite a few of the Type 56s seen in movies also have AKM-style slant compensators fitted; this was a common feature on semi-auto Type 56s exported to the U.S., but NOT the full-auto military model.

The easiest way to tell when an AK-type rifle seen in a movie or TV show is a Chinese Type 56 is by looking at the front sight; Chinese AKs have a distinctive full-circle ("hooded") front sight that no other AKs (excluding the Romanian AK Draco carbines) have.

Norinco Type 56

Norinco Type 56, early milled receiver model with bayonet - 7.62x39mm

Norinco Type 56, milled receiver model without bayonet - 7.62x39mm. This is the "sanitized" (M22-code) export version made with no factory markings and the selector markings in the latin alphabet (L for full-auto and D for semi-auto).

Norinco Type 56 with bayonet - 7.62x39mm

Norinco Type 56 - 7.62x39mm. Rather than having the underfolder pig sticker Bayonet assembly, this has the standard Bayonet lug underneath the gas block as the AKM and later variants.

Norinco Type 56-1, early model with milled receiver - 7.62x39mm

Norinco Type 56-1, early model with milled receiver and plastic fittings - 7.62x39mm

Norinco Type 56-1 - 7.62x39mm

Norinco Type 56-2 - 7.62x39mm

Norinco Type 56 with Chinese 75 Round Drum Magazine - 7.62x39mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Black Widow			seen in arsenal	2021
Mosul	Adam Bessa	Kawa	Type 56-1	2019
Rambo: Last Blood		cartel soldiers		2019
Sicario 2: Soldado		cartel soldiers		2018
American Assassin		terrorists		2017
The Mummy		tribal fighters		2017
Wolf Warriors 2	Jing Wu	Leng Feng	Type 56	2017
Suicide Squad	Jared Leto	The Joker		2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	Tina Fey	Kim Baker		2016
	Alfred Molina	Ali Massoud Sadiq
London Has Fallen	Gerard Butler	Mike Banning	Type 56-1	2016
Karate Kill		Capital Messiah member		2016
Wolf Warriors		Ming Deng's troops	Type 56 and Type 56-1	2015
	Jing Wu	Leng Feng	Type 56
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe	Mark Chao	Hu Bayi		2015
	Rhydian Vaughan	Chen Dong
	Yan Tang	Weiwei
	Li Feng	Fat Wang Kaixuan
		Group of explorers
		Soldiers	Type 56-1
Skin Trade	Dolph Lundgren	Nick Cassidy		2015
		Dragovic's henchmen
Zulu	Clayton Evertson	Beach thug	Type 56-1	2013
The Berlin File		Abdul's henchmen	Type 56-2 with plastic furniture	2013
		North Korean agent	Type 56-2 with AK-74 style muzzle brake and MPi-KMS-72 style side-folding stock
	Seung-beom Ryu	Dong Myung-Soo
Captain Phillips		Somali pirates	Type 56 and Type 56-1, with & without jungle-taped magazines	2013
Witching and Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi)	Mario Casas	Antonio	Type 56-1	2013
Osombie				2012
Red Dawn	Josh Hutcherson	Robert Kitner		2012
R2B: Return to Base		North Korean soldiers		2012
Guardian Angel (Schutzengel)		Assailant	Type 56-1 with green handguard	2012
Johnny English Reborn		Mozambique guard	Type 56-1	2011
Machine Gun Preacher	Gerard Butler	Sam Childers	Type 56-1	2011
		LRA and SPLA troops	w/ pig-sticker bayonet
		LRA and SPLA troops	Type 56-1
Killer Elite		Fighters	early variant with milled receiver	2011
Largo Winch II	Nirut Sirichanya	General Kyaw Min		2011
		Burmese soldiers
Memorial Day		Iraqi Security Forces		2011
The Guard				2011
Red State	Nicholas Braun	Billy-Ray	Type 56 - made to look like AKM	2011
	Melissa Leo	Sara
	James Parks	Mordechai
	Jennifer Schwalbach Smith	Esther
		Believers	Type 56-1 - made to look like AKMS
Kandahar		Taliban fighters	with and without under-folding bayonets	2010
Green Zone	Matt Damon	Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller	Type 56-1	2010
		Iraqi gunmen
Salt		North Korean soldiers		2010
Outside the Law		Vietminh	anachronistic	2010
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright		thugs		2010
Elephant White	Kevin Bacon	Jimmy	Type 56-1 modified with picatinny rails and composite grips	2010
Angel of Evil	Kim Rossi Stuart	Renato Vallanzasca	Type 56-1	2010
	Filippo Timi	Enzo
	Moritz Bleibtreu	Sergio
	Paolo Mazzarelli	Beppe
Big Money Rustlas	Violent J	Big Baby Chips	Type 56-1	2010
	Jumpsteady	Hack Benjamin
	Monoxide	Dusty Poot
Kandahar Break		Tribesmen	Type 56, with underfolding bayonet	2009
		Taliban fighters
		Anti-Taliban fighters
		Tribesman	Type 56-1, with smooth orange magazine
		Afghan National Army soldiers	Type 56-1
31 North 62 East		Terrorists	Type 56-1	2009
A Dangerous Man	Jesse Hutch	Sergey	Type 56	2009
	Steven Seagal	Shane
	Vitaly Kravchenko	Vlad
		Russian thugs
Balibo		Indonesian soldiers		2009
War, Inc.			Turaqi militia	2008
Crossfire (Les Insoumis)		Gangster with a face paints		2008
The Kite Runner		Taliban fighters	Type 56 and Type 56-1	2008
		Soviet soldiers
Rambo	Graham McTavish	Lewis		2008
Body of Lies		Iraqi insurgents	Type 56-1	2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull		Soviet soldiers	Type 56 and Type 56-1	2008
Skinwalkers	Sarah Carter	Katherine		2007
Outlaw	Lennie James	Cedric Munroe	Type 56-1	2007
	Sean Bean	Danny Bryant
Invisible Target	Andy On	Tien Yeng-Yee	Type 56 with laser aiming device	2007
	Vincent Sze	Tien Yeng Chi	Type 56 and Type 56-1
	Mei Wang Xue	Tien Yeng Yan	Type 56-1
No Country for Old Men			Type 56 and Type 56-1, seen with dead drug dealers	2007
Hot Fuzz		Crackhead	Type 56-1	2007
Battle for Haditha	Falah Falyeh	Ahmad	Type 56-1	2007
	Oliver Bytrus	Jafar
		Iraqi Army soldiers
		Iraqi civilians
In Her Line of Fire		The rebels		2006
Blood Diamond	Kagiso Kuypers	Dia Vandy	Type 56-1	2006
		R.U.F. rebels
		Sierra Leone Army soldiers
Lord of War	Weston Cage	Mechanic	Type 56-1, with AKM receiver cover	2005
		Soviet soldiers
		Afghan Mujahideen
			Seen on wall, with nickel finish, AKM muzzle brake, ivory furniture, and AIMS handguard
		R.U.F. rebels	Type 56-1
Sahara	Matthew McConaughey	Dirk Pitt	Type 56-1	2005
		Malian Soldiers
Munich		Black September terrorists	Type 56-1	2005
		PLO gunmen
		Israeli commandos
Batman Begins		Chinese soldiers	Type 56-1	2005
Stealth		Tajikistani terrorists	Type 56-1, with lengthened barrel	2005
A Bittersweet Life		Thugs	Type 56-1	2005
Typhoon		Pirates	Type 56-1	2005
Sky Fighters		Terrorists		2005
District B13 (Banlieue 13)		Guard	Type 56, with & without AKM muzzle brake	2004
Hotel Rwanda		Tutsi rebel		2004
The Corsican File (L'enquête Corse)	Eric Fraticelli	Figoli "Le Piaf"		2004
Innocent Voices	Carlos Padilla	Chava	Type 56	2004
		Salvadoran guerrillas
Tears of the Sun		Militia fighters	Type 56 and Type 56-1	2003
		Cameroon border guards
		Refugees	Type 56, with & without pig-sticker bayonet
Belly of the Beast		Kidnappers, Abu Karaf fighers		2003
The Missing Gun	Jiang Wen	Ma Shan	in his memories	2002
Die Another Day		North Korean soldiers	Type 56-1	2002
		North Korean commando	Type 56-1, made to look like AKS-74
Outside the Law		Delgado's bodyguards, Peyton's hecnhman	Type 56-1 with black furniture	2002
Christmas Rush		Ghost Dragons gangster	Type 56-1	2002
Route 666		Russian mobster		2001
Black Hawk Down		Somali militiamen	Type 56 and Type 56-1, with & without pig-sticker bayonets	2001
24 Hours (24 chasa)		Spetznaz GRU operator, various police officiers, hitman	Type 56-1	2000
Big Money Hustlas	Stefan Kudek	Dr. Dinglenut	Type 56-1, nickel-plated with fake ivory furniture, Romanian AIM-style grip, AKM-style slant compensator	2000
K-911	Vincent Castellanos	Harry Stripe		1999
Black Dog	Gabriel Casseus	Sonny		1998
Belly	Louie Rankin	Lennox	Type 56-1, nickel-plated with fake ivory furniture	1998
		Jamaicans	With AKM-style and AK-74-style muzzle brakes and red dot sights
Air Force One		Rebel soldiers	Type 56-1	1997
Dangerous Ground	Elizabeth Hurley	Karen		1997
The Devil's Own	Brad Pitt	Frankie Maguire	Type 56-1	1997
Cat's Eye		King's soldier		1997
Courage Under Fire		Iraqi soldiers	Type 56 and Type 56-1	1996
Mercenary	Martin Kove	Phoenix		1996
	Lindsey Ginter	Klinge
	Patricia Skeriotis	Kurdish Woman
	Olivier Gruner	'Hawk'
	John Ritter	Jonas Ambler
		Nomads, Phoenix mercenary
Heat	Danny Trejo	Trejo	Type 56-1, with AKM muzzle brake	1995
Dead Presidents		N.V.A. soldiers		1995
Soldier Boyz	Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	Vinh Moc		1995
	Jacqueline Obradors	Vasquez	With pig-sticker bayonet
	Demetrius Navarro	Lopez
		Vinh Moc's soldiers	With & without pig-sticker bayonets
		A criminal	Type 56-1
Top Dog		Neo Nazi terrorists	Type 56-1 with AKM-style muzzle brakes	1995
GoldenEye	Pierce Brosnan	James Bond	Type 56-1, made to look like AKS-74	1995
	Sean Bean	Alec Trevelyan
	Famke Janssen	Xenia Onatopp
		Russian soldiers	Made to look like AK-74 and AKS-74
		Janus soldiers
Steel Frontier	Stacie Foster	Sarah		1995
	Kane Hodder	Kinton
		mercenaries
Dead Weekend		TWF soldiers	Type 56-1	1995
In the Army Now	Lori Petty	Pvt. Christine Jones	Type 56, with AKM muzzle brake	1994
		Libyan Army soldiers
		Libyan Army soldier	Type 56-1, made to look like AK-74
Clear and Present Danger		Colombian cartel gunmen	Type 56-1	1994
Bad Blood		Chang's henchmen		1994
Enemy Gold	Julie Strain	Jewel Panther	Type 56-1, under-folding stock variant with slanted muzzle brake	1993
	Ron Browning	Slash
Crime Story (1993)		Robber	with AKM muzzle brake	1993
Martial Outlaw		Rodchenko's henchman		1993
Curacao		A terrorist	Type 56-1	1993
Freejack	Emilio Estevez	Alex Furlong		1992
		Mercenaries
Beyond the Law	Ed Adams	Dirt	Type 56-1, with AKM muzzle brake	1992
Rapid Fire		Guards		1992
Hard Boiled		Johnny Wong's thugs	Type 56-1	1992
Boyz N The Hood	Baldwin C. Sykes	Monster	Type 56-1	1991
In the Line of Duty 6: Forbidden Arsenal		Mobster		1991
Afghan Breakdown		Afghan Mujaheddin	Type 56, with pig-sticker bayonet	1991
Bullet in the Head	Waise Lee	Little Wing		1990
	Tony Leung Chiu Wai	Ah Bee
	Jacky Cheung	Fai
		N.V.A. soldiers
		Viet-Cong guerrillas
Revenge (1990)	Miguel Ferrer	Amador	Type 56-1	1990
Enemy	Peter Fonda	Ken Andrews		1990
	Tia Carrere	Mai Chang
	Felindo Obach	Sgt. Tuong
		Vietcong, Vienamese soldiers
The Hunt for Red October		Soviet Naval Infantryman		1990
RoboCop 2	Thomas Rosales Jr.	Chet	Type 56, with AK-74 muzzle brake	1990
		Nuke cartel thugs	Type 56, 56-1, & Type 56-2, with & without bakelite magazines and AK-74 muzzle brakes
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection		Ramon Cota's men	Type 56, with pig-sticker bayonet	1990
Navy SEALs	Nicholas Kadi	Ben Shaheedis		1990
The Killer	Danny Lee	Inspector Li Ying	Type 56-1	1989
UHF		Villain		1989
Born on the Fourth of July		NVA soldiers	Type 56 with pig-sticker bayonet	1989
Casualties of War		Viet Cong guerrillas	Type 56-1	1989
The Iron Triangle	Liem Whatley	Ho	Type 56, with pig-sticker bayonet	1989
		Viet-Cong
Code Name Coq Rouge	Stellan Skarsgård	Carl Hamilton	Type 56, milled receiver without pig-sticker bayonet	1989
	Nick Burnell	Meyer
		Israeli terrorists
		PLO guard
		Boy on the beach
L.A. Bounty		Cavanaugh´s men		1989
Dead Bang	Mickey Jones	Sleepy		1989
Rambo III	Sasson Gabai	Mousa	Type 56-1	1988
		Afghan Mujahideen	Type 56 and Type 56-1
Return of the Killer Tomatoes		"Tomato men" soldiers	Semi-auto Type 56S	1988
Big Trouble in Little China		Wing Kong gang members	Type 56, with AKM muzzle brakes	1986
Platoon	Charlie Sheen	Pvt. Chris Taylor	With pig-sticker bayonet	1986
	Tom Berenger	SSgt. Robert Barnes
		N.V.A. soldiers
		Viet-Cong
Volunteers		People's Army soldiers		1985
Coordinates of Death (Koordinaty smerti)		Viet Cong guerrillas	With pig-sticker bayonets	1985
The Park is Mine	Jong Soo Park	Tran Chan Dinh	Type 56-1	1985
Commando Leopard		Rebels		1985
Latino		FSLN soldiers and villagers		1985
Wheels of Fire		Scourge's Men		1985
Water	Stefan Kalipha	Cuban		1985
	Alan Igbon	Cuban
	Chris Tummings	Garfield Cooper
	Michael Caine	Baxter Thwaites
Code Name: Wild Geese		General Khan's soldiers		1984
Octopussy		Soviet soldiers	Type 56, milled receiver without pig-sticker bayonet	1983
		Border guards
Uncommon Valor	Kwan Hi Lim	Jiang		1983
The Year of Living Dangerously		Indonesian soldiers	Type 56, with and without pig-sticker bayonets	1982
Apocalypse Now		N.V.A. soldiers		1979
		Viet-Cong
		Kurtz's men	With & without jungle-taped magazines
		French colonialists	With & without pig-sticker bayonets
The Deer Hunter	Robert De Niro	Michael		1978
	Christopher Walken	Nick

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Air Date
Harry's Game	Derek Thompson	Billy Downes	Type 56-1	1982
The A-Team				1983 - 1988
Blott on the Landscape	David Suchet	Blott		1985
		East German soldiers
MacGyver (1985) - Season 1	-	Various characters	Type 56 with slant compensator / featured in 9 out of 22 episodes	1985-1986
Tour of Duty		Vit Cng		1987 - 1989
Tour of Duty		NVA soldiers		1987 - 1989
Seven Days			Type 56 and Type 56-1	1998 - 2001
The Sopranos	Bokeem Woodbine	Massive Genius	Nickel plated Type 56-1; "A Hit is a Hit" (S1E10)	1999 - 2007
Ultimate Force	Ross Kemp	SSgt. Henry 'Henno' Garvie	Type 56-1	2002 - 2006
	Jamie Draven	Cpl. Jamie Dow
	Tony Curran	Sgt. Pete Twamley
	Miles Anderson	Col. Aidan Dempsey
	Louis Decosta Johnson	Cpl. Dave Woolston
	Heather Peace	Tpr. Becca Gallagher
	Conor Mullen	Omega
		Various terrorists and soldiers
Tremors: The Series	Victor Browne	Tyler Reed	"Shriek & Destroy"	2003
Doctor Who (New Series) - Season 2	Andrew Hayden-Smith	Jake Simmonds	Type 56-1 in episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel"	2006
Criminal Minds		Somali militiamen	"Distress" (S2E17)	2007
The Kill Point	Leo Fitzpatrick	"Mr. Mouse"	Type 56-1, with AKM slant compensator	2007
The Kill Point	Adam Cantor	Rocko	Type 56-1, with AKM slant compensator	2007
The Kill Point	Frank Grillo	Albert "Mr. Pig" Roman	Type 56-1, with AKM slant compensator	2007
The Kill Point		One of Deke Quinlan's men	Type 56-1, with AKM slant compensator	2007
Sea Patrol		Various rebels and mercenaries		2007 - 2010
Sanctuary				2007 -
Iris - Season 1		North Korean terrorists and IRIS mercenaries	Type 56-1	2009
Iris - Season 1	Lee Byung-hun	Kim Hyun-jun	Type 56-1	2009
Iris - Season 1	So-yeon Kim	Kim Seon-hwa	Type 56-1	2009
Falling Skies	Noah Wyle	Tom Mason	Type 56-1	2011 -
Falling Skies		Resistance fighters	Type 56	2011 -
Jon Benjamin Has a Van		Guatemalan troops	Type 56, "Border" (S01E01)	2011
Longmire	Lobo Sebastian	Octavio Muara	Type 56-1, "The Cancer" (S01E04), plastic magazine, muzzle brake	2012
The Walking Dead - Season 3	Travis Love	Shumpert the Bowman	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Made to Suffer" (S3E08), "The Suicide King" (S3E09), "Home" (S3E10)	2012-2013
	various	Woodbury Soldiers	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Made to Suffer" (S3E08), "The Suicide King" (S3E09), "Home" (S3E10), "Prey" (S3E14), "This Sorrowful Life" (S3E15), "Welcome to the Tombs" (S3E16)
	Melissa Ponzio	Karen	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Home" (S3E10)
	Sonequa Martin-Green	Sasha	Type 56-1 fitted with a R.I.S. & AKM-style slanted compensator; "Prey" (S3E14)
	Daniel Thomas Ray	Allen	Type 56-1 fitted with a R.I.S & AKM-Style slanted compensator; "This Sorrowful Life" (S3E15), "Welcome to the Tombs" (S3E16)
Continuum - Season 2			"Second Chances" (E01)	2013
The Walking Dead - Season 4	Alanna Masterson	Tara Chambler	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slant compensator; "Too Far Gone" (S4E08)	2013-2014
	various	Governor's Militia Soldiers	Type 56-1 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Too Far Gone" (S4E08)
	various	Terminus Inhabitants	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "A" (S4E16)
The Walking Dead - Season 5	various	Terminus Inhabitants	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "No Sanctuary" (S5E01), "Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)	2014-2015
	various	Terminus Inhabitants	Type 56-1 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "No Sanctuary" (S5E01)
	Andrew Lincoln	Rick Grimes	Type 56 fitted with Dark Plum Polymer Furniture & AKM-style slanted compensator
	Michael Cudlitz	Sgt. Abraham Ford	Dark Plum Polymer Furniture & AKM-style slanted compensator; "No Sanctuary" (S5E01)
	Andrew J. West	Gareth	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
	Chris Coy	Martin	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
	April Billingsley	Theresa	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
	Benjamin Papac	Albert	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
	Chris Burns	Mike	Type 56-1 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
	Norman Reedus	Daryl Dixon	Type 56 fitted with a Dark Plum Polymer Furniture & AKM-style slanted compensator; "Crossed" (S5E07), "Them" (S5E10)
	Jason Douglas	Tobin	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Spend" (S5E14)
	Steven Yeun	Glenn Rhee	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Spend" (S5E14)
Banshee - Season 2		Rabbit's men	Episode 10; Type 56 and Type 56-1	2014
Tyrant		Abbudinian soldiers	Episode 1; Type 56	2014
The Walking Dead - Season 6	Andrew Lincoln	Rick Grimes	Type 56 fitted with Dark Plum Polymer Furniture & AKM-style slanted compensator	2015-2016
	Jason Douglas	Tobin	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "First Time Again" (S6E01)
	Unknown	Savior Member	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Always Accountable" (S6E06)
	Austin Nichols	Spencer Monroe	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Heads Up" (S6E07)
	various	At least 2 unnamed Savior Members	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator in an after credits scene; "Start to Finish" (S6E08), "No Way Out" (S6E09)
	Unknown	Savior Member	Type 56-1 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Start to Finish" (S6E08), "No Way Out" (S6E09)
	G-Rod	Savior Member	Type 56-1 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Not Tomorrow Yet" (S6E12)
	various	Savior Member	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Twice As Far" (S6E14)
	Norman Reedus	Daryl Dixon	Type 56 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Twice As Far" (S6E14)
	various	Savior Members	Type 56 & Type 56-1 fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Last Day on Earth" (S6E16)
The Walking Dead - Season 7	Norman Reedus	Daryl Dixon	Type 56 fitted with wood furniture, AIM Handguard & AKM-style slant compensator; ”The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)	2017
	Andrew Lincoln	Rick Grimes	Type 56 fitted with wood furniture & slant compensator; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Cooper Andrews	Jerry	Type 56 fitted with dark plum polymer furniture & slant compensator; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives (S7E16)
	Unknown	Savior Member	Type 56 fitted with dark plum polymer furniture & slant compensator; " The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Christian Serratos	Rosita Espinosa	Type 56-1 fitted with slant compensator & folding stock removed; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Alanna Masterson	Tara Chambler	Type 56-1 fitted with R.I.S. & slant compensator; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Sabrina Gennarino	Tamiel	Type 56-1 fitted with slant compensator; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Thomas Francis Murphy	Brion	Type 56-1 fitted with dark plum polymer furniture, slant compensator, & folding stock removed; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
Wynonna Earp		Revenant thug	Type 56-2 side-folding stock variant; "The Blade" (S1E04)	2016
The Man in the High Castle	Joel de la Fuente	Chief Inspector Kido		2019

Anime

Title	Character	Notation	Release Date
Gunslinger Girl	Padania Terrorists		2003

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam			Type 56; with under-folding bayonet	2017
			Type 56-1
Rainbow Six Siege			Unusable	2015
Grand Theft Auto V	"Assault Rifle"		Type 56-2	2013
Godfather II, The (VG)				2009
Delta Force: Xtreme 2	"AK47"			2009
7.62 High Calibre	"Type 56"	w/ various attachments		2008
Tomb Raider: Underworld			not usable	2008
Battlefield: Vietnam	"AK-47"	w/ underfolding "pig sticker" bayonet		2004
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	"AK47"			2004
Project IGI 2: Covert Strike	"AK-47"			2003
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	"Kalashnikov"			2003
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror	"AK47"			2002
Project IGI: I'm Going In	"AK-47"			2000
Global Operations	"AK-47"			2000
Jurassic Park: Trespasser	"Kalashnikov"			1998

Norinco Type 84S

Norinco Type 84S - 5.56x45mm

Norinco Type 84S-1 Underfolder Model with 16" barrel - 5.56x45mm

Norinco Type 84S "Target" Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Basically a standard Norinco Type 84S with a slightly longer barrel. This variant was ready for market just as the 1989 US import ban was implemented, so it is mostly seen in Canada. It has an 18.5" barrel and was very rarely seen in the U.S. Gun market.

Norinco Type 84S-1 "Match" Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Norinco was stuck sitting on a pile of 21" RPK barrels chambered for 5.56mm when the door slammed shut on U.S. imports in 1989. Norinco saved money by mating their 21" long RPK-style barrels to their stockpile of 84S Folding Stock receiver bodies and thus exported the Type 84S Match to countries such as Canada and Australia. Canada would suffer their own import ban on 'frightening looking guns' in 1995. Australian gun owners would suffer such a fate in 1997.

The Type 84 rifle is nearly identical to the Chinese Type 56 (seen above), but it is chambered in 5.56x45mm /.223 Remington and manufactured entirely for export. The civilian variants are known as Type 84S, and are semi-automatic only (full auto Type 84s are far rarer than the Type 84S though). It is often seen impersonating the AK-74 in movies and TV shows (particularly Stargate: SG1, where it is carried by Russian SG teams).

The Type 84 was exported and sold with an AK birdcage flash hider and had a deep polished factory blue. Several other variants of the 84S Rifle (that are mostly unfamiliar to American Gun Owners) were victims of the 1989 Import Ban that barred most new 'assault rifles' from entering the United States. These rifles were thus mostly exported to Canada and Australia, and as a result, appeared in television shows or movies that were filmed in those countries. Listed here are two of the variants seen in Canadian or Australian television (the Target and the Match versions). If it were not for Canadian or Australian movie armorers, most Americans would never have known these variants existed.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Interview		North Korean soldier	Type 84S-1	2014
A Dangerous Man	Byron Lawson	Mao	.	2009
Zombieland		Stylish Secret Agent	.	2009
Underworld: Evolution		Hungarian police officers	.	2006
The Sum of All Fears		Ukrainian soldiers	Type 84S-2, fitted with custom muzzle brakes to pass for AKS-74	2003
Reindeer Games		.	Seen in the weapons storage compartment of Gabriel's (Gary Sinise) truck	2000
Bravo Two Zero		Iraqi soldiers	.	1999
Hollow Point		Mobsters	w/ Type 56-style bayonets	1996

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Sliders		Russian soldiers		1995-2000
Millennium			Found in cult warehouse / "Gehenna"	1996-1999
The X-Files		Russian gulag guards/soldiers	Type 84s (standard variant), 84S-1 'Target' (underfolder stock) / "Terma" (S4E09), "Patient X" (S5E13)	1996-1998
Stargate SG-1		Seth's followers	(S03E02)	1997 - 2007
	Jen Halley	Lieutenant Tolinev	mocked up as AKS-74U / "The Tomb" (S05E08)
The X-Files - Season 5	Brian Markinson	Gary Lambert	84S-1 'Target' (underfolder stock) / "Folie à Deux" (S5E19)	1998
Seven Days		Various military personnel and terrorists	"Peackeepers", "The Fire Last Time"	1998-2001
Harsh Realm		A bounty hunter and Cherokee nationalists	(Ep. 2 "Leviathan", Ep. 8 "Cincinnati")	1999
The Sopranos	James Gandolfini	Tony	"Two Tonys" (5.01)	1999-2007
	Max Casella	Benny Fazio
	Carl Capotorto	Little Paulie Germani
Battlestar Galactica		Resistance fighters	Season 2, "Lay Down Your Burdens"	2004-2009
Battlestar Galactica	Ryan Robbins	Charlie Connor	Season 3, "Exodus"	2004-2009
Chris Ryan's Strike Back	Fenar Mohammed-Ali	As'ad	Ep. 1, 2	2010
Chris Ryan's Strike Back		Iraqi insurgents	Ep. 1, 2	2010
Wynonna Earp		Revenant thug	"The Blade" (S1E04), Type 84S-1 "Match" rifle	2016

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG	Dejima refugee sniper	Type 84S Target with scope	2004-2005

Norinco MAK-90

Norinco MAK-90 - 7.62x39mm

"Post-ban" version of the Norinco Type 56, made for import for use as a civilian sporting rifle. As such, the MAK-1990 was manufactured in semi-automatic mode only, the rear sight was ground down and the bayonet lugs were ground off. Most rifles are fitted with a 'thumbhole' stock and were manufactured with both milled and stamped receivers. Originally, these rifles were sold for around $180 and were looked down on as "cheap" rifles, but have since been regarded as fine rifles and have gone up in price greatly.

Specifications

(1990 - 1994)

• Type: Assault Rifle

• Caliber: 7.62x39mm

• Weight: 8.3 lbs (3.7 kg)

• Length: 35.1 in (89.2 cm)

• Barrel length: 16.3 in (41.5 cm)

• Feed System: 10, 30-round box magazine

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Carnosaur 3: Primal Species		Terrorist		1996
Soldier		Arcadia 234 inhabitant	With 10-round magazine	1998
God Bless America	Tara Lynne Barr	Roxy	thumbhole stock removed	2012
	Joel Murray	Frank Murdock
	Mike Tristano	Shady gun dealer