{"id":27738,"date":"2025-09-07T05:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/the-finnish-rk-we-have-at-home-rk-56-tp-aka-chinese-type-56-2-ak-rifle\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:13:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T10:13:58","slug":"the-finnish-rk-we-have-at-home-rk-56-tp-aka-chinese-type-56-2-ak-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/the-finnish-rk-we-have-at-home-rk-56-tp-aka-chinese-type-56-2-ak-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finnish RK We Have At Home: RK 56 TP, aka Chinese Type 56-2 AK Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PlijqqIRe5Y?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Master Bloke asks his mum Mrs Bloke if we can have Finnish RK.<br \/>But, the Bloke household already has the Finnish RK we have at home: the RK 56 TP, aka Chinese Type 56-2 rifle, the AK-47 variant with the cool side-folding stock. Yes, the Finns actually bought about 200,000 of these at the start of the 1990&#8217;s to finally replace the KP-31 SMG and M39 Mosin rifles that the older reserves were still using&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Buy Me A Coffee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blokeontherange\/<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Bloke asks his mum Mrs Bloke if we can have Finnish RK.But, the Bloke household already has the Finnish RK we have at home: the RK 56 TP, aka Chinese Type 56-2 rifle, the AK-47 variant with the cool side-folding stock. Yes, the Finns actually bought about 200,000 of these at the start of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/the-finnish-rk-we-have-at-home-rk-56-tp-aka-chinese-type-56-2-ak-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Finnish RK We Have At Home: RK 56 TP, aka Chinese Type 56-2 AK Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":27739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}