The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Type 56 Assault Rifle. Pressed metal construction with a wooden butt, chequered pistol grip and two-piece fore end. Hooded foresight. The left side of the receiver is marked with M22 and the serial number, 11022. The steel butt plate is fitted with a spring loaded trap door. Overall metal parts painted black (except for the top cover) and woodwork varnished.
The cleaning rod is missing and the weapon has been rendered inert by welding across the bolt face. The weapon has no integral bayonet.
Chinese copy of the Soviet AK 47 assault rifle. Provenance unknown.
Type 56 Assault Rifle. Pressed metal construction with a wooden butt, plain pistol grip and two piece fore end. The left side of the receiver is marked with 66 in a triangle, three Chinese characters
Chicom Type 56 automatic assault rifle. Pressed steel receiver and machined bolt mechanism. The action is marked with a 66 in a triangle, three Chinese characters indicating the type and the serial nu
Chicom Type 56 Assault Rifle. Pressed metal construction with a wooden butt. The receiver is stamped 66 within a triangle and the serial number. The top handguard, lower fore end, magazine, folding ba
Type 56 Assault Rifle. Metal construction with a varnished light wood butt, fore end and pistol grip. The receiver is marked on the left side with 66 within a triangle, three Chinese characters and th
North Korean Type 68 Assault Rifle. Pressed metal construction with a wooden butt, plain pistol grip and two piece fore end. The left side of the receiver is marked with a five pointed star in a circl
MP43 assault rifle. The weapon is a gas operated, select fire, magazine fed weapon made primarily from metal stampings with the exception of the operating parts which are machined steel. The butt stoc