Why are Chinese sks so expensive now?

[u/cheddarkittyy]

I spent $450 in December 2024 for my Chinese sks. My dad just got his pal and I was looking to get one for him and it’s $850 now? What? Why did the price almost double in just over a year?

[u/Azules023]

Supply and demand. It’s still the cheapest, most reliable, and safest semi auto to purchase even after the price increase.

Alternatives are Turkish crap, M1 Garands at $3k, or likely to be banned Henry homesteader at $1.2k.

[u/greekdude1821 → u/Azules023]

chinese sks are just as bad as many of the turkish stuff out there

[u/Boattailfmj → u/greekdude1821]

Nah its as good as any other country of manufacturer

[u/harryfrogman → u/greekdude1821]

Absolutely unfounded claim here, Chinese sks are very good quality. Unless you're trying to say the Turkish stuff has gotten immensely better?

[u/greekdude1821 → u/harryfrogman]

Turkish and Chinese armaments available to all of us are on an equal level and that's not a high level whatsoeve.

Only reason it's popular as a farm gun because of the low price point.

[u/SwordJabbingAction → u/greekdude1821]

How do you figure? I had a triangle 26 that was a very well built machine.

[u/Itsivanthebearable → u/Azules023]

Homesteader is likely to be banned???

[u/Azules023 → u/Itsivanthebearable]

You see any other PCCs survive the last OICs? It was pure luck and timing that it didn’t make the 2024 OIC.

[u/Itsivanthebearable → u/Azules023]

I think the big problem is when Canadian gun owners make these guns “tacticool” and scary looking to irrational politicians.

Would’ve been different if Pierre won, but he didn’t. Now it’s best to keep a low profile then try to ban more semis

[u/NerfVice → u/Itsivanthebearable]

If that's the case then why did they ban traditional wood stock semi auto's

[u/Illustrious-Nail-360 → u/NerfVice]

They said because they were military firearms. If you are looking for logic with the bans, it's hard to find lol

[u/Itsivanthebearable → u/Illustrious-Nail-360]

Bingo. They’ll ban whatever, but making it tacticool is a justification to them

[u/Itsivanthebearable → u/NerfVice]

Such as? You mean the M14 variants, which have wooden stocks but are semi auto? Or the Ruger Mini 14, which is really a smaller variant of the M14? Or the M1 Carbine, which was a military issued gun?

Those are easy because of that lineage alone. We see places in South America ban “military calibers.” At least the Turks are importing their guns as purely hunting rifles. Problem comes when people stick tactical furniture on them, because that gives the government an excuse to say it’s no longer a hunting gun “as designed.”

You’re dealing with people who would ultimately ban all semi auto rifles if they could justify it. Thankfully the SKS is so prevalent for hunting use that it gives them pause to use any of the above “logic”

[u/Illustrious-Nail-360 → u/Azules023]

Well, it's also marketed a bit different than all the banned ones. The ones that are banned were marketed as sports shooting guns, and the henry is marketed for farm use. Again, I'm not saying this makes it immune to being banned, but it definitely is giving it some good cover from the bans.

[u/outline8668 → u/Illustrious-Nail-360]

And that henry doesn't offer a factory "tactical" version of the gun. So far the bans and legislation only applies to factory configuration and making a ban stick on end-user modified examples must be dicey because the Liberals would otherwise love to see modified SKS get the hammer.

[u/Automatic-Height4246 → u/Itsivanthebearable]

Henry has originally said its default capacity is 5 shots therefore its basically un bannable with the argument even if there is a loophole in the law where it can legally hold 10 with glock or smithandWesson mags

[u/Azules023 → u/Automatic-Height4246]

You must be new. No such thing as unbannable nor any logic that can be applied. 22s got banned the last round of bans and the new laws only referred to centre fires.

[u/Whispersfine → u/Automatic-Height4246]

Ya, say that to m1 and stg 22s