With Valmets always scarce and Steyr no longer bringing in Maddis, eyes turned to Bejing and a variety of Chinese-made semi-auto Type 56 AKM-style clones, marketed under banners ranging from B-West, Poly-Tech, Clayco, Norinco and others, started to flow into the country around the same time.
The problem was, the Valmets and Maddis were expensive at the time, running $700 and up in 1985 dollars. appetite for Kalashnikovs initially whet by the early shipments first of Finnish Valmets and then of Steyr-imported Egyptian Maddi ARM rifles, by the time Red Dawn hit theatres in 1984, the hunger had grown to omnivorous proportions. 223-caliber AK-style semi-auto rifle that was only imported for a single, controversial year. Gather round and hear a tale of an extremely rare.
This beautiful Norinco Type 84S-1 AKS available in the Vault is a Chicom-made underfolder that was only imported in 1989.
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