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Podcast: Talking Lead Podcast
Episode: TLP 538 - AK KORNER: The SKS, History, Variations & AK Giveaways!
Description: We giveaway a Pioneer Arms USA 7.62x39 GROM AKM with an RPK stock and a 9mm PPS43 this episode!! We announce July's giveaway prize, plus an exclusive listener only discount to purchase PAC firearms is dropped.  The SKS was adopted by the Soviet Union in 1946 and manufactured by the USSR until 1955. The SKS was designed by the famed Russian arms inventor Sergei Simonov. It is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle used during World War 2. In 1946 SKS production is shifted from USSR to the Peoples Republic of China (Type 56) to support the newly emerging communist re...