The Type 56 assault rifle commonly known as AK-56 is the Chinese copy of the Kalashnikov AK-47 and AKM assault rifle,which has been manufactured since 1956. The postfix 56 stands for 1956, the year ...

Both weapons became the weapon-of-choice for guerrilla warfare and are still being used in conflicts around the globe, even 70 years after their conception. In the late 1940s, the Soviet army was ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. A reference to one type of ammunition used in the AK-47 has been removed.) The suspect, Ryan Routh, 58, ran for it but he ...

China’s 1980s stopgap rifle may continue to see service far into the twenty-first century. In the 1980s, China’s small arms were largely inferior to the United States and Russia. The PLA was mostly ...

When Secret Service agents foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump while he was golfing on his course Sunday in West Palm Beach, they spotted a ...