What's the difference between the weapons? 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 ...

The image of the Soviet-designed SKS rifle that was found stashed in Ryan Wesley Routh’s alleged sniper’s nest at the West Palm Beach golf course on Sept. 15 was included in a detention memo ...