There are also a few benefits to the MAK-90 when compared to some imports that were made after the Assault Weapons Ban came into force under later administrations.įoremost among these is that the MAK-90s were imported as complete, functioning firearms that took AK magazines, and the Chinese have gotten excellent at making AKs. It takes all standard AK magazines meant for 7.62×39 guns and functions exactly the same way that every AK platform rifle has since the year 1947. As far as George HW Bush, the ATF, and Uncle Sam are concerned, the MAK90 is no more an AK47 than is your Remington model 700” both are sporting rifles. The MAK-90, on the other hand, was a sporting rifle that had a thumbhole stock, no ability to accept a bayonet, and even did away with the awful, terrifying threaded barrel by the addition of a penny’s worth of tack weld on the muzzle brake. A ban was passed without a law being written by congress, and thus the AK47 was banned, ending, for instance, the possibility of post-Soviet imports. The second was by a set of features, including pistol grips, bayonet lugs, and folding stocks, among many other, largely cosmetic features that apparently terrified the then-Republican government. First was by name: the AK47 was named explicitly. This is because, in 1989, George HW Bush interpreted the 1968 Gun Control Act through an executive order that banned the importation of assault rifles along two grounds. American Classificationįrom the American perspective, the MAK-90 is in no way whatsoever an AK47. This is emblematic of what most Americans overlook during this period of the late Cold War: despite being both ostensibly communist nations, the USSR and the PRC did not get along very well with each other, only really cooperating when their collective problem, the USA or NATO, made trouble, for instance, in Korea and Vietnam. Instead, they’re apparently illegal, patent-infringing variants of the stamped AKM. That’s because the Chinese did not pay a royalty, nor did they get tooling, from the USSR to make the weapons. If you ask the then Soviet Union, the MAK-90 is not an AK. For example, our friends in Canada can get a Norinco copy of the M14 that was, supposedly, made from reverse-engineered copies of rifles captured in Vietnam. Norinco is the government-owned armory for the Chinese: they’ve also been exporting civilian arms for years, many of them copies of other nations’ designs.
The main distinction of the MAK-90 is that it was only ever made in semi-automatic, making it eligible for importation, for example, into the lucrative private firearms market in the USA. These came in about any configuration you can think of, from unfolding, short-barreled models for tank crews to long-barreled versions sporting big stocks and bipods. Many MAK90s were made on the stamped Type-56 receivers, which are the Chinese variant of the AKM. Chinese Classificationįrom the Chinese perspective, these guns are, in effect, AK47s.
Those threads are the Chinese, Soviet, and American threads, and they weave together quite a tale. Here, three threads are relevant if we’re trying to answer the question: is a MAK-90 an AK47. This is where things get interesting historically. But, if you look at it, it sure looks an awful lot like an AK47. They are by official definition, sporting rifles. Generally, these guns were imported with 3, 5-round magazines and wood furniture including a thumbhole stock. The MAK 90 or “Modified AK, 1990”, is a semi-automatic Type 56 assault rifle, chambered in 7.62×39, and produced by Norinco beginning in the year 1990.
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