NORINCO 84S-1

Seller Description For This Firearm

For sale is a Norinco/CSI Type 84S-1. VERY RARE PRE-BAN. Only imported in 1989. Gun has what we believe to be the original box (Please look in the photos) Original sling, "SPIKER" bayonet, oil bottle, and 3 - 30 round magazines (These 30 round magazines sell for roughly $200.00 a piece).

AK47 style / AKM

With the U.S. appetite for Kalashnikovs initially whet by the early shipments first of Finnish Valmets and then of Steyr-imported Egyptian Maddi ARM rifles, by the time Red Dawn hit theatres in 1984, the hunger had grown to omnivorous proportions. The problem was, the Valmets and Maddis were expensive at the time, running $700 and up in 1985 dollars.

With Valmets always scarce and Steyr no longer bringing in Maddis, eyes turned to Bejing and a variety of Chinese-made semi-auto Type 56 AKM-style clones, marketed under banners ranging from B-West, Poly-Tech, Clayco, Norinco and others, started to flow into the country around the same time. Largely new-in-box production and meant just for the overseas market, the only tweak done before clearing customs in the U.S. was to gain an import mark. Seen as something of the Rodney Dangerfield of the AK offerings at the time, these guns could be had for under $400.

China Sports, Inc.– located in Ontario, California of all places– introduced a couple of new Norincos to the market in late 1988, notably chambered in calibers other than the traditional AK 7.62x39mm. This included the 5.45x39mm Type 88 and the Type 84S AKS in .223 Remington. The Type 84S was to ship to FFLs in one of four variants: a standard fixed wood stock model, the 84S-1 with an underfolding stock, the 84S-3 with a composite fixed stock, and the 84S-5 with a side-folding metal stock, with the last three only imported in 1989.

The metal Norinco Type 84 factory .223/5.56 ribbed magazines are extremely hard-to-find these days, with prices topping out as high as $200 per mag. A popular hack for Type 84 owners who like to shoot is to mod more commonly available polymer Bulgarian Circle 10 or Pro-Mag 5.56 Kalash mags to fit– but of course, your mileage may vary.

The bottom fell out of the import semi-auto rifle game after the President Bush-era Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in July 1989 dropped the hammer on bringing in 43 types of popular firearms by name, ranging from UZIs to the enduring Valmet Hunter, with these Chinese AKs included. This shut the door on the Type 84. Subsequent bans on Chinese-made firearms in 1994 kept it shut.

Today, of course, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Yugoslav-built Arsenals, Cugirs, and Zastavas are available in .223/5.56 while several domestic AK builders also crank out their versions in the same chambering. But they just aren’t the short-lived and, now very collectible, Norinco Type 84S.

UPC	ECOM00587094
Action	SEMI AUTOMATIC
Barrel Length	16.5" BARREL
Caliber	5.56X45MM NATO
Capacity	30 ROUNDS
Finish	BLACK W/ WOOD STOCK