The PSL 54 from Century Arms, a Romanian designated marksman rifle, is a beefed-up AKM with a successful, decades-long history on the battlefield.

That was Romania, and the gun was the PSL or PuşcăSemiautomată cu Lunetă model 1974, “scoped semi-automatic rifle.” Much like the SVD-40, which was not developed as a semi-automatic sniper ...

While it uses a long-stroke design, the new rifle, called the M91, differs by using a stamped-steel receiver and firing the 7.62x54 mm R cartridge. ... one of the best known being the Romanian PSL.