Chinese type 56 SKS' for sale at Palmetto

outobie · May 11, 2021

HI All

are these legal in MD? I think they are but wanted to check your thoughts

https://palmettostatearmory.com/chi...paign=Daily+Deal+Email&utm_content=5:00+Email

Bertfish · May 11, 2021

Growler215 · May 11, 2021

These are gtg in MD.

Try to find a supply of surplus stripper clips to feed them - it is no longer legal to convert to detachable mags here.

They probably have a cleaning kit in the "chinese finger trap" in the butt of the stock; if not, they're only a few bucks on ebay.

Docster · May 11, 2021

Wonder why PSA won't ship them to C & R licensees?

Growler215 · May 11, 2021

Docster said:
Wonder why PSA won't ship them to C & R licensees?

As of a few years ago China hadn't provided official "date of manufacture" data to US, so BATF couldn't determine if they were 50+ years old.

cantstop · May 11, 2021

Ikaros240 · May 11, 2021

As long as you dont use the detachable Tapco magazines these are good to go here

tallen702 · May 11, 2021

Growler215 said:
As of a few years ago China hadn't provided official "date of manufacture" data to US, so BATF couldn't determine if they were 50+ years old.

Didn't stop Classic, RTI, AIM, JG, Century, and SAMCO to name a few. PSA won't ship to C&R period. Same rules applied to the Carcanos they got in a while back. They're as bad as the Fudd FFLs that won't honor a 03FFL on GB.

Hecktor Peabody · May 17, 2021

Growler215 said:
As of a few years ago China hadn't provided official "date of manufacture" data to US, so BATF couldn't determine if they were 50+ years old.

BATF doesn't require official dating from the country of manufacture. All that they required in 2011 was an adequate explanation of a dating method for the Chinese guns from the importers.

The method they went with was the one provided by Steve Kehaya. At the time that dating method was believed to be only applicable to factory 26 carbines. Since then the dating method has been shown to be off by one year and also applicable to the nearly all of the 100+ known Chinese arsenals.

However, as far as imports are concerned the dating method still only applies to factory 26 carbines. Until someone resubmits an updated dating method to BATF.

As I understand it, the Albanian caches of Type56's consists of numerous non-/26\ carbines.

bigmancrisler · May 17, 2021

Growler215 said:
These are gtg in MD.

Try to find a supply of surplus stripper clips to feed them - it is no longer legal to convert to detachable mags here.

They probably have a cleaning kit in the "chinese finger trap" in the butt of the stock; if not, they're only a few bucks on ebay.

Since when?

ST19AG_WGreymon · May 17, 2021

PSA doesn't want to pony up the resources/time to process people's orders and C&R licences.

Atlantic Firearms.com · May 21, 2021

Those are cool SKS rifles and will be nice collector items to any military rifle collection in the future .Nice to see these surplus rifles offered

ChannelCat · May 21, 2021

outobie said:
Are these legal in MD?

For now...

BeoBill · May 21, 2021

Judging by how long they have been available at PSA and them not selling to FFL-03s, it seems like they're not selling like hot cakes...

Ikaros240 · May 21, 2021

BeoBill said:
Judging by how long they have been available at PSA and them not selling to FFL-03s, it seems like they're not selling like hot cakes...

well its 500 bucks for an unknown condition t56

Jim12 · May 21, 2021

BeoBill said:
Judging by how long they have been available at PSA and them not selling to FFL-03s, it seems like they're not selling like hot cakes...

I was hoping they'd be gone so as to avoid temptation. Maybe the cosmoline cleanup is a turnoff to others, too. The description and sample pics are enticing.

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