Description
$5,999.00
A genuine Syrian-conflict battlefield pickup of a Norinco Type 80 — the Chinese copy of the Soviet PKM and one of the rarest parts kits available to American builders. Complete kit with all small parts, full reweldable receiver components, and the demilled barrel stub for headspace reference. Priced for the serious Combloc collector or PKM project builder who values original wartime provenance.
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Description
The Norinco Type 80 — designated M80 in export configuration — is the Chinese-manufactured copy of the Soviet PKM general-purpose machine gun, reverse-engineered after Chinese forces first encountered the platform during the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. Formally adopted in 1983, the Type 80 saw limited service with the Chinese PLA but was exported in meaningful volume to operators across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. After the 1994 U.S. import ban on Chinese-made firearms and parts, the supply of Type 80 components in the American market has been functionally fixed for over thirty years — every kit sold makes the next one rarer.
This particular kit is a documented Syrian conflict battlefield pickup, recovered from the field rather than pulled from arsenal stock. The original wartime exterior remains intact, complete with the honest patina of operational use. For the right collector, that history is the point.
The Kit
This is a complete demilled parts kit with every small component present:
- Bolt and bolt carrier with all small parts
- Feed tray and feed cover with rear sight
- Trigger group with all springs and pins
- Top cover, dust cover, and gas system components
- Buttstock, pistol grip, and bipod
- All receiver pieces from the demil — properly cut for reweld reconstruction, not torch-mangled or plasma-shattered
- Demilled barrel stub for chamber and headspace reference
The receiver scrap is the headline detail. Many demilled PKM kits are cut in ways that destroy the rebuild path; this one retains the trunnions and receiver sections needed for a competent rewelder to reconstruct a buildable receiver.
Condition
Fair to Good. Battlefield pickup finish — original Chinese wartime exterior with operational wear consistent with field use during the Syrian conflict. All components functional, all small parts present, no missing or cobbled-together replacement pieces. This is not arsenal-fresh surplus. It is a piece of recent military history that happens to also be a buildable kit.
Build Potential
Two paths from here. The reweld route uses the included receiver scrap with a competent welder/builder for the most authentic and cost-effective build. The VLTOR route drops the parts onto a VLTOR semi-auto PKM receiver — the Type 80 is a direct PKM copy and shares geometry with Russian, Polish, and Hungarian kits, so VLTOR compatibility is confirmed by the build community. A new 7.62×54R barrel is required either way; aftermarket options are available though increasingly scarce.
All builds must comply with 18 U.S.C. § 922(r). The included demilled receiver scrap counts as foreign-source for compliance accounting; standard PKM compliance pathways typically use a domestic receiver, trigger group, buttstock, pistol grip, and several small parts to meet the requirement. Embach Armory can advise on compliance pathways and recommend rewelders or builders for serious buyers.
Why This Kit
A few hundred Chinese Type 80 parts kits exist in the United States. The number that arrived with documented battlefield provenance is much smaller. Both numbers are decreasing. If you are building a PKM and origin matters to you — collector, militaria specialist, or someone who appreciates that this gun was somewhere it should not have been — this is the kit.