The Wassenaar Arrangement Semiautomatic Rifles (more commonly referred to as the WASR series rifles) are export-oriented, semi-automatic versions of the Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965 (PM md. 63), itself the Romanian variant of the Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernizirovanniy (AKM) series of Kalashnikov rifles originally manufactured in Russia. The WASR series rifles take their name from the 1996 Wassenaar Arrangement, a multilateral export control regime (MECR), the purpose of which is to monitor and limit the proliferation of certain conventional weapons and dual-use technologies.
The WASR series rifles use a Romanian made receiver, but lack the dimple above the magazine well seen in the SAR series of Romanian AKM rifles. The equivalents with Russian models are:
- WASR-22: N/A (.22LR)
- WASR-2 : AK-74 (5.45x39)
- WASR-3 : AK-101 (5.56x45)
- WASR-10: AKM (7.62x39)
Read more about WASR Series Rifles: Construction, WASR-10 and Variants, WASR-22, WASR-2, WASR-3
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