AR does not stand for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle." They're considered to be more accurate than either the SKS or AK-47 and are much easier to modify, but not as simple to maintain.

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives classifies the SKS rifle that some sources believe Micah Johnson used to kill five Dallas police officers on July 7 a "Curio or Relic ...

AR does not stand for "assault rifle" or "automatic rifle." They're considered to be more accurate than either the SKS or AK-47 and are much easier to modify, but not as simple to maintain.

SAGINAW, MI — Two Saginaw men who stole a semi-automatic rifle from an 18-year-old will serve probation sentences, and one will have his record sealed. Saginaw County Circuit Judge Janet M. Boes ...

If asked about the 7.62x39mm cartridge (aka the 7.62 Soviet and .30 Russian Short), the first firearm that comes to mind is almost certainly the Avtomat Kalashnikova, i.e., the AK-47 assault rifle.

Several people are lucky to be alive after a home invasion call turned into a shoot-out between a police officer and a man believed to be under the influence of spice.

Watch this segment of American Rifleman TV's "I Have This Old Gun" to learn more about the history and significance of the Russian SKS-45 carbine from the Cold War era.

“The SKS was a new age semi-auto rifle. It was a pretty good and reliable weapon by 1947, as engineers had had nearly seven years to prepare the weapon for the army tests,” Kozulin adds.

Although Sergei Simonov’s SKS had a relatively short service history, the tough, stripper-clip-fed infantry arm is deserving of consideration by anyone seeking a reliable semi-automatic rifle ...

Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

Of the three, the SKS is the oldest. Developed in the 1940s by Russian weapons designer Sergey Simonov, the Samozaryadny Karabin Sistemy Simonova or SKS is a semi-automatic rifle that comes with a ...