Type 56 assault rifle

The Type 56 assault rifle is the Chinese clone of the Soviet AK-47 rifle. It was China's service rifle from 1956 to the adoption of the QBZ-95 in around 1997, and is the most produced variant of the AK rifle in the world.

The Type 56 is the most commonly used AK variant in American film and television productions. This came about because China exported civilian AK variants (both Type 56 patterened and less commonly Soviet AK patterened) to the West in large numbers during the 1980s, primarily by the export companies Norinco (not to be confused with Norinco Group) and Poly Technologies. Most American movie prop rental houses had dozens if not hundreds of Type 56s, usually semi-automatic civilian versions, in many cases converted to full-auto by Class III manufacturers.

The easiest way to distinguish a Type 56 variant is its front sight: Type 56s have a distinctive full-circle ("hooded") front sight that no other AKs (excluding the Romanian Draco Pistol carbines) have.

Note: IMFDB previously incorrectly prefixed this weapon's name with "Norinco", under the false assumption that it was manufactured by Norinco or Norinco Group. Editors should not prefix this weapon's name with Norinco, and should remove them when they appear, as this weapon was not manufactured by Norinco or Norinco Group.

Type 56 (7.62x39mm)

Type 56

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

Type 56, milled receiver model without bayonet - 7.62x39mm. This is an "M22" export model.

Type 56 with bayonet - 7.62x39mm

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.

Type 56 with Chinese 75 Round Drum Magazine - 7.62x39mm

The Type 56 designates the original fixed stock variant of the Chinese AK. Historically, most Type 56s were manufactured by Factory 626 in Heilongjiang, whose weapons featured a "triangle 66" roll mark (confusingly suggesting that they were manufactured by the nonexistent "Factory 66"). Numerous other Chinese state factories besides Factory 626 also manufactured the Type 56.

In America, prior to the wave of Chinese gun exports in the 1980s, small numbers of military Type 56s were brought to America as trophies from the Vietnam War. Prior to 1982, importing military 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, opening America to AK and SKS imports until the 1989 import ban under then-President George H.W. Bush. At that time he directed the ATF to redefine the 'sporting purpose' clause of the Gun Control Act of 1968 to limit 'military style' semi automatic weapons. This was a redefinition of an existing law, no new law was created, until Congress in 1990 passed a bill that prohibited reassembling imported weapons into identical versions after import (the 922R compliance section). During the early 1990s AKs and SKS rifles were still being imported with various parts removed (bayonet lugs, threaded muzzles, etc) to comply as being 'post ban weapons'. The vast majority of American movie armories AKs came from this time span. During the Clinton Administration a near total ban was enacted on the import of all firearms from China, except a very small selection of historical style firearms (double barreled shotguns, pump action shotguns, manually operated rifles, etc). This ban was eased initially during the George W. Bush Administration, but then re-instituted in 2005 after Norinco was caught trying to import weapons that were not approved for the US Market.

Most fixed-stock Type 56 rifles have an under-folding spike bayonet, nicknamed "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 American 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 "M22" is an early export version of the Type 56 produced and exported up to the mid-1960s, featuring no factory markings on the receiver and an "M22" code in their place instead. It was specifically created to export the Type 56 while minimizing its connections to China, and several other Chinese export firearms were "sanitized" this way; these include the "M7" for the Type 56 RPG, the "M20" for the Type 54 pistol, and the "M21" for the Type 56 carbine. The "M22" was exported in large numbers to Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and "M22" Type 56s in the United States are usually war trophies from the Vietnam War.

In the United States, other import names used for the Type 56 include "56S", "AK47S", or "AKS47".

Export Type 56 models usually have selector markings marked using Latin alphabet, with L (pinyin acronym for 連, lián, meaning "continuous [fire]") for full-auto and D (pinyin acronym for 單, dān, meaning "single [fire]") for semi-auto.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Deer Hunter	Robert De Niro	Michael		1978
	Christopher Walken	Nick
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 Year of Living Dangerously		Indonesian soldiers	Type 56, with and without pig-sticker bayonets	1982
Uncommon Valor	Kwan Hi Lim	Jiang		1983
Octopussy		Soviet soldiers	Type 56, milled receiver without pig-sticker bayonet	1983
		Border guards
Code Name: Wild Geese		General Khan's soldiers		1984
Water	Stefan Kalipha	Cuban		1985
	Alan Igbon	Cuban
	Chris Tummings	Garfield Cooper
	Michael Caine	Baxter Thwaites
Wheels of Fire		Scourge's Men		1985
Latino		FSLN soldiers and villagers		1985
Commando Leopard		Rebels		1985
Coordinates of Death (Koordinaty smerti)		Viet Cong guerrillas	With pig-sticker bayonets	1985
Volunteers		People's Army soldiers		1985
Platoon	Charlie Sheen	Pvt. Chris Taylor	With pig-sticker bayonet	1986
	Tom Berenger	SSgt. Robert Barnes
		N.V.A. soldiers
		Viet-Cong
Big Trouble in Little China		Wing Kong gang members	Type 56, with AKM muzzle brakes	1986
Return of the Killer Tomatoes		"Tomato men" soldiers	Semi-auto Type 56S	1988
Rambo III		Afghan Mujahideen		1988
Dead Bang	Mickey Jones	Sleepy		1989
L.A. Bounty		Cavanaugh´s men		1989
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
The Iron Triangle	Liem Whatley	Ho	Type 56, with pig-sticker bayonet	1989
		Viet-Cong
Born on the Fourth of July		NVA soldiers	Type 56 with pig-sticker bayonet	1989
UHF		Villain		1989
Navy SEALs	Nicholas Kadi	Ben Shaheedis		1990
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection		Ramon Cota's men	Type 56, with pig-sticker bayonet	1990
RoboCop 2	Thomas Rosales Jr.	Chet	Type 56, with AK-74 muzzle brake	1990
		Nuke cartel thugs	with & without bakelite magazines and AK-74 muzzle brakes
The Hunt for Red October		Soviet Naval Infantryman		1990
Enemy	Peter Fonda	Ken Andrews		1990
	Tia Carrere	Mai Chang
	Felindo Obach	Sgt. Tuong
		Vietcong, Vienamese soldiers
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
Afghan Breakdown		Afghan Mujaheddin	Type 56, with pig-sticker bayonet	1991
In the Line of Duty 6: Forbidden Arsenal		Mobster		1991
Rapid Fire		Guards		1992
Freejack	Emilio Estevez	Alex Furlong		1992
		Mercenaries
Martial Outlaw		Rodchenko's henchman		1993
Crime Story (1993)		Robber	with AKM muzzle brake	1993
Bad Blood		Chang's henchmen		1994
In the Army Now	Lori Petty	Pvt. Christine Jones	Type 56, with AKM muzzle brake	1994
		Libyan Army soldiers
Steel Frontier	Stacie Foster	Sarah		1995
	Kane Hodder	Kinton
		mercenaries
GoldenEye		Russian soldiers	Made to look like AK-74 and AKS-74	1995
		Janus soldiers
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
Dead Presidents		N.V.A. soldiers		1995
The Island of Dr. Moreau	Daniel Rigney	Hyena-Swine		1996
	David Thewlis	Edward Douglas
Mercenary	Martin Kove	Phoenix		1996
	Lindsey Ginter	Klinge
	Patricia Skeriotis	Kurdish Woman
	Olivier Gruner	'Hawk'
	John Ritter	Jonas Ambler
		Nomads, Phoenix mercenary
Courage Under Fire		Iraqi soldiers		1996
Cat's Eye		King's soldier		1997
Dangerous Ground	Elizabeth Hurley	Karen		1997
Belly		Jamaicans	With AKM-style and AK-74-style muzzle brakes and red dot sights	1998
Black Dog	Gabriel Casseus	Sonny		1998
K-911	Vincent Castellanos	Harry Stripe		1999
Black Hawk Down		Somali militiamen	with & without pig-sticker bayonets	2001
Route 666		Russian mobster		2001
The Missing Gun	Jiang Wen	Ma Shan	in his memories	2002
Belly of the Beast		Kidnappers, Abu Karaf fighers		2003
Tears of the Sun		Militia fighters		2003
		Cameroon border guards
		Refugees	Type 56, with & without pig-sticker bayonet
Innocent Voices	Carlos Padilla	Chava	Type 56	2004
		Salvadoran guerrillas
The Corsican File (L'enquête Corse)	Eric Fraticelli	Figoli "Le Piaf"		2004
Hotel Rwanda		Tutsi rebel		2004
District B13 (Banlieue 13)		Guard	Type 56, with & without AKM muzzle brake	2004
Sky Fighters		Terrorists		2005
In Her Line of Fire		The rebels		2006
No Country for Old Men				2007
Invisible Target	Andy On	Tien Yeng-Yee	with laser aiming device	2007
	Vincent Sze	Tien Yeng Chi
Skinwalkers	Sarah Carter	Katherine		2007
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull		Soviet soldiers		2008
Rambo	Graham McTavish	Lewis		2008
The Kite Runner		Taliban fighters		2008
		Soviet soldiers
Crossfire (Les Insoumis)		Gangster with a face paints		2008
War, Inc.			Turaqi militia	2008
Balibo		Indonesian soldiers		2009
A Dangerous Man	Jesse Hutch	Sergey	Type 56	2009
	Steven Seagal	Shane
	Vitaly Kravchenko	Vlad
		Russian thugs
Kandahar Break		Tribesmen	Type 56, with underfolding bayonet	2009
		Taliban fighters
		Anti-Taliban fighters
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright		thugs		2010
Outside the Law		Vietminh	anachronistic	2010
Salt		North Korean soldiers		2010
Kandahar		Taliban fighters	with and without under-folding bayonets	2010
Red State	Nicholas Braun	Billy-Ray	Type 56 - made to look like AKM	2011
	Melissa Leo	Sara
	James Parks	Mordechai
	Jennifer Schwalbach Smith	Esther
The Guard				2011
Memorial Day		Iraqi Security Forces		2011
Largo Winch II	Nirut Sirichanya	General Kyaw Min		2011
		Burmese soldiers
Killer Elite		Fighters	early variant with milled receiver	2011
Machine Gun Preacher		LRA and SPLA troops	w/ pig-sticker bayonet	2011
R2B: Return to Base		North Korean soldiers		2012
Red Dawn	Josh Hutcherson	Robert Kitner		2012
Osombie				2012
Captain Phillips		Somali pirates	with & without jungle-taped magazines	2013
Skin Trade	Dolph Lundgren	Nick Cassidy		2015
		Dragovic's henchmen
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
Wolf Warrior		Ming Deng's troops		2015
	Jing Wu	Leng Feng	Type 56
Karate Kill		Capital Messiah member		2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	Tina Fey	Kim Baker		2016
	Alfred Molina	Ali Massoud Sadiq
Suicide Squad	Jared Leto	The Joker		2016
Wolf Warrior 2	Jing Wu	Leng Feng	Type 56	2017
The Mummy		tribal fighters		2017
American Assassin		terrorists		2017
Sicario 2: Soldado		cartel soldiers		2018
Project Gutenberg	Chow Yun-Fat	Ng "Painter" Fuk-sang	Dual-wielded	2018
	Aaron Kwok	Lee Man
		Merlin Guerilla soldiers
Rambo: Last Blood		cartel soldiers		2019
Black Widow			seen in arsenal	2021

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes/Episode	Date
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				1998 - 2001
Tremors: The Series	Victor Browne	Tyler Reed	"Shriek & Destroy"	2003
Criminal Minds - Season 2		Somali militiamen	"Distress" (S2E17)	2007
Sea Patrol		Various rebels and mercenaries		2007 - 2010
Sanctuary				2007 -
Falling Skies		Resistance fighters	Type 56	2011 -
Jon Benjamin Has a Van		Guatemalan troops	Type 56, "Border" (S01E01)	2011
Breaking Bad - Season 5	Jonathan Banks	Michael Ehrmantraut	"Say My Name" (S5E07)	2012
The Walking Dead - Season 3	Travis Love	Shumpert the Bowman	"Made to Suffer" (S3E08), "The Suicide King" (S3E09), "Home" (S3E10), "I Ain't a Judas" (S3E11), "Prey" (S3E14), "This Sorrowful Life" (S3E15), "Welcome to the Tombs" (S3E16)	2012-2013
	William Tokarsky	Woodbury guard	"Made to Suffer" (S3E08)
	uncredited	Woodbury guard	"Made to Suffer" (S3E08)
	Melissa Ponzio	Karen	"Home" (S3E10), "I Ain't a Judas" (S3E11)
	Joseph Setticase	Woodbury Soldier	"Prey" (S3E14)
	Jeff Galpin	Woodbury Soldier	"This Sorrowful Life" (S3E15)
	Brendon Cornwell	Woodbury Soldier	"Welcome to the Tombs" (S3E16)
Continuum - Season 2			"Second Chances" (E01)	2013
The Walking Dead - Season 4	Alanna Masterson	Tara Chambler	"Too Far Gone" (S4E08)	2013-2014
	Uncredited	Terminus inhabitant	"A" (S4E16)
	Joe Foley	Terminus inhabitant	w/dark plum polymer furniture; "A" (S4E16)
The Walking Dead - Season 5		Terminus inhabitants	"No Sanctuary" (S5E01)	2014-2015
	Chuck Steak	Terminus inhabitant
	Aaron Tarver	Terminus inhabitant
	Preston Baker	Terminus inhabitant
	Jennifer Badger	Terminus inhabitant
	Duke Jackson	Terminus inhabitant
	Chris Critter Antonucci	Terminus inhabitant	w/dark plum polymer furniture; "No Sanctuary" (S5E01)
	Andrew Lincoln	Rick Grimes	w/dark plum polymer furniture; "No Sanctuary" (S5E01), "Strangers" (S5E02)
	Michael Cudlitz	Sgt. Abraham Ford	w/dark plum polymer furniture; "No Sanctuary" (S5E01)
	Andrew J. West	Gareth	"Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
	Chris Coy	Martin
	April Billingsley	Theresa
	Benjamin Papac	Albert
	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	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)
	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 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)
The Man in the High Castle	Joel de la Fuente	Chief Inspector Kido		2019
The Walking Dead: World Beyond - Season 1			"Brave" (S1E01)	2020
Tulsa King		various characters		2022
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 7		Tower Ranger	Stunt Replica; "Mourning Cloak" (S7E10)	2022
Secret Invasion		Skrull Rebel	w/black synthetic furniture; "Beloved" (S1E04)	2023

Video Games

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

Anime

Title	Character	Notes	Date
Gunslinger Girl	Padania Terrorists		2003

Type 56-1

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

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

Type 56-1 - 7.62x39mm

Type 56-1 fitted with a slanted compensator - 7.62x39mm

The Type 56-1 is the under-folding stocked variant of the Type 56.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Park is Mine	Jong Soo Park	Tran Chan Dinh		1985
Bad Taste		Aliens		1987
Rambo III	Sasson Gabai	Mousa		1988
		Afghan Mujahideen
Casualties of War		Viet Cong guerrillas		1989
The Killer	Danny Lee	Inspector Li Ying		1989
RoboCop 2		Nuke cartel thugs		1990
Revenge (1990)	Miguel Ferrer	Amador		1990
Boyz N The Hood	Baldwin C. Sykes	Monster		1991
Hard Boiled		Johnny Wong's thugs		1992
Beyond the Law	Ed Adams	Dirt	with AKM muzzle brake	1992
Curacao		A terrorist		1993
Enemy Gold	Julie Strain	Jewel Panther	with slanted muzzle brake	1993
	Ron Browning	Slash
Clear and Present Danger		Colombian cartel gunmen		1994
In the Army Now		Libyan Army soldier	made to look like AK-74	1994
Dead Weekend		TWF soldiers		1995
GoldenEye	Pierce Brosnan	James Bond	made to look like AKS-74	1995
	Sean Bean	Alec Trevelyan
	Famke Janssen	Xenia Onatopp
Top Dog		Neo Nazi terrorists	with AKM-style muzzle brakes	1995
Soldier Boyz		A criminal		1995
Heat	Danny Trejo	Trejo	with AKM muzzle brake	1995
Courage Under Fire		Iraqi soldiers		1996
The Devil's Own	Brad Pitt	Frankie Maguire		1997
Air Force One		Rebel soldiers		1997
Belly	Louie Rankin	Lennox	nickel-plated with fake ivory furniture	1998
Big Money Hustlas	Stefan Kudek	Dr. Dinglenut	nickel-plated with fake ivory furniture, Romanian AIM-style grip, AKM-style slant compensator	2000
24 Hours (24 chasa)		Spetznaz GRU operator, various police officiers, hitman		2000
Black Hawk Down		Somali militiamen	with & without pig-sticker bayonets	2001
Christmas Rush		Ghost Dragons gangster		2002
Outside the Law		Delgado's bodyguards, Peyton's hecnhman	with black furniture	2002
Die Another Day		North Korean soldiers		2002
		North Korean commando	made to look like AKS-74
Tears of the Sun		Militia fighters		2003
Typhoon		Pirates		2005
A Bittersweet Life		Thugs		2005
Stealth		Tajikistani terrorists	with lengthened barrel	2005
Batman Begins		Chinese soldiers		2005
Munich		Black September terrorists		2005
		PLO gunmen
		Israeli commandos
Sahara	Matthew McConaughey	Dirk Pitt		2005
		Malian Soldiers
Lord of War	Weston Cage	Mechanic	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
Blood Diamond	Kagiso Kuypers	Dia Vandy		2006
		R.U.F. rebels
		Sierra Leone Army soldiers
Battle for Haditha	Falah Falyeh	Ahmad		2007
	Oliver Bytrus	Jafar
		Iraqi Army soldiers
		Iraqi civilians
Hot Fuzz		Crackhead		2007
No Country for Old Men				2007
Invisible Target	Vincent Sze	Tien Yeng Chi		2007
	Mei Wang Xue	Tien Yeng Yan
Outlaw	Lennie James	Cedric Munroe		2007
	Sean Bean	Danny Bryant
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull		Soviet soldiers		2008
Body of Lies		Iraqi insurgents		2008
The Kite Runner		Taliban fighters		2008
		Soviet soldiers
31 North 62 East		Terrorists		2009
Kandahar Break		Tribesman	with smooth orange magazine	2009
		Afghan National Army soldiers
Big Money Rustlas	Violent J	Big Baby Chips		2010
	Monoxide	Dusty Poot
	Jumpsteady	Hack Benjamin
Angel of Evil	Kim Rossi Stuart	Renato Vallanzasca		2010
	Filippo Timi	Enzo
	Moritz Bleibtreu	Sergio
	Paolo Mazzarelli	Beppe
Elephant White	Kevin Bacon	Jimmy	modified with picatinny rails and composite grips	2010
Green Zone	Matt Damon	Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller		2010
		Iraqi gunmen
Red State		Believers	Made to look like AKMS	2011
Machine Gun Preacher	Gerard Butler	Sam Childers		2011
		LRA and SPLA troops
Johnny English Reborn		Mozambique guard		2011
Guardian Angel (Schutzengel)		Assailant	with green handguard	2012
Witching and Bitching (Las brujas de Zugarramurdi)	Mario Casas	Antonio		2013
Captain Phillips		Somali pirates		2013
Zulu	Clayton Evertson	Beach thug		2013
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe	Mark Chao	Soldiers		2015
Wolf Warrior		Ming Deng's troops		2015
London Has Fallen	Gerard Butler	Mike Banning		2016
Mosul	Adam Bessa	Kawa		2019
6 Underground		Turgistanian soldier		2019
Triple Frontier	Pedro Pascal	Francisco "Catfish" Morales		2019
OSS 117: From Africa with Love		An arms dealer		2021
Ransomed		Lebanese militias		2023

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes/Episode	Date
Harry's Game	Derek Thompson	Billy Downes		1982
Seven Days				1998 - 2001
The Sopranos	Bokeem Woodbine	Massive Genius	Nickel plated; "A Hit is a Hit" (S1E10)	1999 - 2007
Ultimate Force	Ross Kemp	SSgt. Henry 'Henno' Garvie		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
Doctor Who (New Series) - Season 2	Andrew Hayden-Smith	Jake Simmonds	in episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel"	2006
The Kill Point	Leo Fitzpatrick	"Mr. Mouse"	with AKM slant compensator	2007
The Kill Point	Adam Cantor	Rocko	with AKM slant compensator	2007
The Kill Point	Frank Grillo	Albert "Mr. Pig" Roman	with AKM slant compensator	2007
The Kill Point		One of Deke Quinlan's men	with AKM slant compensator	2007
Iris - Season 1		North Korean terrorists and IRIS mercenaries		2009
Iris - Season 1	Lee Byung-hun	Kim Hyun-jun		2009
Iris - Season 1	So-yeon Kim	Kim Seon-hwa		2009
Falling Skies	Noah Wyle	Tom Mason		2011 -
Longmire - Season 1	Lobo Sebastian	Octavio Muara	"The Cancer" (S01E04), plastic magazine, muzzle brake	2012
The Walking Dead Webisodes: Cold Storage			Seen on the wall; "The Chosen Ones" (S1E03)	2012
The Walking Dead - Season 3	Norman Reedus	Daryl Dixon	w/CAA Tactical XRS47-SET handguard, continuity error; "When the Dead Come Knocking" (S3E07), "Made to Suffer" (S3E08)	2012-2013
	Steven Yeun	Glenn Rhee	w/CAA Tactical XRS47-SET handguard, continuity error; "Made to Suffer" (S3E08)
	Daniel Thomas May	Allen	w/CAA Tactical XRS47-SET handguard; "Prey" (S3E14), "This Sorrowful Life" (S3E15), "Welcome to the Tombs" (S3E16)
	Joseph Setticase	Woodbury Soldier	w/CAA Tactical XRS47-SET handguard; "Prey" (S3E14)
	Sonequa Martin-Green	Sasha Williams	w/CAA Tactical XRS47-SET handguard; "Prey" (S3E14)
The Walking Dead - Season 4	Uncredited	Martinez's camp survivor	"Dead Weight" (S4E07)	2013
	Larry Vaughn	Martinez's camp survivor
	Steve Bowlin	Martinez's camp survivor	"Too Far Gone" (S4E08)
	Uncredited	Two Martinez's camp survivors
The Walking Dead - Season 5		Terminus inhabitant	"No Sanctuary" (S5E01)	2014
	Chris Burns	Mike	"Four Walls and a Roof" (S5E03)
Banshee - Season 2		Rabbit's men	Episode 10	2014
The Walking Dead - Season 6	Unknown	Savior Member	fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Start to Finish" (S6E08), "No Way Out" (S6E09)	2015-2016
	G-Rod	Savior Member	fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Not Tomorrow Yet" (S6E12)
	various	Savior Members	fitted with a AKM-style slanted compensator; "Last Day on Earth" (S6E16)
The Walking Dead - Season 7	Christian Serratos	Rosita Espinosa	fitted with slant compensator & folding stock removed; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)	2017
	Alanna Masterson	Tara Chambler	w/CAA Tactical XRS47-SET handguard & slant compensator; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Sabrina Gennarino	Tamiel	fitted with slant compensator; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
	Thomas Francis Murphy	Brion	fitted with dark plum polymer furniture, slant compensator, & folding stock removed; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 6	Arlene Cavazos	Pioneer Ranger	Replica; "Welcome to the Club" (S6E02)	2020-2021
	Lauren Alvarez	White Mask Rebel	"Honey" (S6E05)
	Mattison Gotcher	Doomsday Cultist	"The Holding" (S6E11), "Mother" (S6E14)
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 7		Former Cultist	"Divine Providence" (S7E14)	2022
FUBAR	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Luke Brunner	"Stole Train" (S1E02)	2023
	Monica Barbaro	Emma Brunner	"Stole Train" (S1E02)
		Boro's guards
Fear the Walking Dead - Season 8	Reno Gooch	Troy's Group Member	"Anton" (S8E07)	2023
		Troy's Group Members	"Anton" (S8E07), "Iron Tiger" (S8E08), "Keeping Her Alive" (S8E10)
	Keith Adams	Gearhead Member	Stunt Replica; "Keeping Her Alive" (S8E10)
	Brandon Herron	Troy's Group Member	"Keeping Her Alive" (S8E10)
	Christine Evangelista	Sherry
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 2		Power of the Living movement Guerriers	Rubber Prop; "Moulin Rouge" (S2E02), "Le Paradis Pour Toi" (S2E04)	2024
The Last of Us - Season 2		WLF soldiers		2025

Video Games

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Rising Storm 2: Vietnam				2017
Military Conflict: Vietnam				2022

Type 56-2

Type 56-2 - 7.62x39mm

The Type 56-2 is the side-folding stocked variant of the Type 56.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
RoboCop 2		Nuke cartel thugs		1990
The Berlin File		Abdul's henchmen	with plastic furniture	2013
		North Korean agent	with AK-74 style muzzle brake and MPi-KMS-72 style side-folding stock
	Seung-beom Ryu	Dong Myung-Soo

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Wynonna Earp		Revenant thug	"The Blade" (S1E04)	2016

Video Games

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Grand Theft Auto V	"Assault Rifle"			2013

Poly Technologies AKS-762 "Galil Side-Folder"

Poly Technologies AKS-762 "Galil Side-Folder" - 7.62x39mm

The AKS-762 is a series of civilian semi-automatic Type 56s exported by Chinese company Poly Technologies Inc. They were some of the first AKs to have been imported into the United States, alongside Egyptian Maadis.

The AKS-762 came in a variety of configurations, including ones identical to military Type 56 setups. One visually distinct variant among them features a basic side-folding stock similar to the Type 56-2 but also the Galil, leading to the nickname "Galil Side-Folder".

In terms of manufacturing, Poly Technologies rifles were manufactured by Factory 416 in Shandong and Factory 386 in Fujian.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
Breaking News		Criminal gang		2004

MAK-90

MAK-90 - 7.62x39mm

"Post-ban" version of the 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: 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	Notes	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

TUL-1

TUL-1 - 7.62x39mm.

TUL-1 - 7.62x39mm.

The TUL-1 (Short for "Tự Lực" - self-reliance) is a North Vietnamese weapon based on the Type 56, albeit designed to fit the role of the RPK which also resemble, as the original RPKs couldn't be sent by the Soviet Union due political and covert reasons. The guns were however sometimes assembled from parts of AKMs or similar rifles so a standard design wasn't set.

The main differences with the RPK include the receiver, the dust cover and the muzzle. Production ended in 1974, after Vietnam started producing the RPK under license. The TUL-1 remains in use in present day, being still issued to the Vietnam People's Army.

Specifications

(1970 - 1974)

• Type: Light machine-gun.
• Calibers: 7.62x39mm M43
• Barrel lengths: 590mm (23.22")
• Length 1040mm (40.94")
• Weight 4.8kg (10.58lbs)
• Capacity: 30-round box magazine, 40-rounds box magazines, AK-47 type magazines (7.62x39mm)
• Fire Modes: Full-auto, Semi-Auto

Video Games

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Military Conflict: Vietnam				2022

Type 84 (5.56x45mm)

Type 84S

Type 84S - 5.56x45mm

Type 84S "Target" Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Basically a standard 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.

The Type 84 is a 5.56x45mm /.223 Remington variant of the Type 56 manufactured entirely for export. The rifles were originally developed as semi-automatic only civilian rifles for the United States market, under the name Type 84S, but small numbers of full-auto military versions were developed later for export to other countries. Other export names include "AKS-223" and "AKS-556".

The Type 84 has six primary variants, each of which has their own "S"-suffixed civilian semi-auto variants:

• Type 84: Standard variant with fixed stock
• Type 84-1: Variant with under-folding stock
• Type 84-2: Variant with side-folding stock
• Type 84-3: Variant with fixed stock and black synthetic furniture
• Type 84-4: Variant with under-folding stock and black synthetic furniture
• Type 84-5: Variant with side-folding stock and black synthetic furniture

The Type 84 was exported and sold with an AK birdcage flash hider and had a deep polished factory blue. It is often seen impersonating the AK-74 in movies and TV shows.

The United States banned the Type 84 and its variants by name in the 1989 Import Ban. They were thus mostly exported to Canada and Australia, and as a result, appeared in television shows or movies that were filmed in those countries.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
Hollow Point		Mobsters	w/ Type 56-style bayonets	1996
Reindeer Games		.	Seen in the weapons storage compartment of Gabriel's (Gary Sinise) truck	2000
Zombieland		Stylish Secret Agent	.	2009

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Sliders		Russian soldiers	Type 84 & Type 84 Target	1995-2000
Millennium			Found in cult warehouse / "Gehenna"	1996-1999
Stargate SG-1		Seth's followers	"Target" variant / (S03E02)	1997 - 2007
	Jen Halley	Lieutenant Tolinev	mocked up as AKS-74U / "The Tomb" (S05E08)
The X-Files - Season 4		Russian gulag guards	"Target" variant / "Terma" (S4E09)	1996
The X-Files - Season 5		Russian soldiers	"Target" variant / "Patient X" (S5E13)	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
Chris Ryan's Strike Back		Iraqi insurgents	Ep. 1, 2	2010

Anime

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

Type 84S-1

Type 84S-1 - 5.56x45mm

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.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
Underworld: Evolution		Hungarian police officers		2006
The Interview		North Korean soldier		2014

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
The X-Files - Season 4		Russian gulag guards	"Target" variant / "Terma" (S4E09)	1996
The X-Files - Season 5		Russian soldiers	"Target" variant / "Patient X" (S5E13)	1998
The X-Files - Season 5	Brian Markinson	Gary Lambert	"Target" variant / "Folie à Deux" (S5E19)	1998
Seven Days		Various military personnel and terrorists	"Peackeepers", "The Fire Last Time"	1998-2001
Battlestar Galactica	Ryan Robbins	Charlie Connor	Season 3, "Exodus"	2004-2009

Type 84S-2

Type 84S-2 - 5.56x45mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Sum of All Fears		Ukrainian soldiers	Fitted with custom muzzle brakes to pass for AKS-74	2003
A Dangerous Man	Byron Lawson	Mao		2009

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Seven Days		Various military personnel and terrorists	"Peackeepers", "The Fire Last Time"	1998-2001
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

AK-2000P

AK-2000P - 5.56x45mm NATO

The AK-2000P is a military automatic variant of the Type 84-5 featuring a different synthetic pistol grip, different synthetic handguard, and a different muzzle device. The rifle was designed for the Indonesian police as a cheaper alternative to the AK-101 and AK-102 rifles which they had purchased; the alternative furniture was intended to mimic the Russian AK-100 series furniture.

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Jack Irish		Moro terrorists	S1E4	2016