UZI Parts
Furniture • Stocks • Top Covers • Magazines • Pouches
Replacement parts and accessories for the UZI — the Israeli 9mm submachine gun designed by Uziel Gal, adopted by the IDF in 1954 and licensed to 90+ militaries across the post-WW2 era. Our catalog covers the 5 part groups that wear out, get lost, or get upgraded on a working Uzi: the handguard set, the iconic underfolding metal stock, the ratcheting receiver top cover, 9mm box magazines, and the German MP2 mag pouch from the Bundeswehr’s 1959 adoption of the platform.
About UZI Parts
The UZI is the 9x19mm Parabellum submachine gun designed by Major Uziel Gal of the Israeli Defense Forces in the late 1940s, formally adopted by the IDF in 1954, and licensed to more than 90 national militaries over the next four decades — the most widely adopted submachine gun of the post-World War II era. Open-bolt blowback, telescoping bolt that wraps around the barrel for compactness, single-stack feed lip geometry that’s specific to the platform. Keep Shooting’s UZI parts catalog stocks 5 SKUs covering the furniture, stock, receiver, magazine, and pouch slices of a working Uzi: the handguard set, the underfolding metal stock, the ratcheting top cover, UZI magazines, and the German MP2 mag pouch from the Bundeswehr’s 1959 adoption of the platform.
Why the Uzi Was Such a Big Deal
The Uzi solved a problem that nobody else had solved cleanly in the post-WW2 SMG market. Earlier submachine guns — the Thompson, the M3 grease gun, the British Sten, the Soviet PPSh-41 — were all long. They were essentially short rifles built around a pistol cartridge, and the length came from putting the magazine in front of the trigger like a rifle does. Uziel Gal’s contribution was the telescoping bolt: a bolt machined as a hollow cylinder that wraps around the rear half of the barrel rather than sitting behind it. That single design choice meant the magazine could move into the pistol grip (Walther MP-style) and the receiver could shrink to roughly the length of the barrel itself.
The result was a submachine gun that collapsed to about 17 inches with the stock folded — small enough to be carried under a coat by VIP-protection details, paratroopers, and special-operations units that earlier SMGs couldn’t equip practically. Add the open-bolt blowback mechanism (cheap to manufacture, reliable in dust and sand), 600-rounds-per-minute rate of fire, and the Israeli reputation for ruggedness that the platform earned across the 1956 Suez crisis and the 1967 Six-Day War, and the Uzi became the SMG that Western militaries bought when they wanted a current-pattern compact 9mm rather than re-issuing WW2 stock.
Germany Adopts the MP2 — Why a German Mag Pouch Exists
Germany was the first major foreign customer for the Uzi. The Bundeswehr adopted it as the MP2 in 1959 to replace the wartime MP38/MP40 inventory that had carried through the Bundeswehr’s 1955 reformation. German license production ran through Carl Walther GmbH and the MP2 stayed in service with the Bundeswehr into the 1990s. The German UZI mag pouch we stock is genuine Bundeswehr surplus from that MP2 service period — the olive-canvas double mag carrier that paired with the MP2 load-out and turned up in German surplus stocks when the Bundeswehr moved to the MP7 family. Belgium (FN Herstal license production), the Netherlands, Ireland, and Portugal followed Germany into Uzi adoption through the 1960s; Israel itself continued using the platform until the early 2000s when it was phased out for the Tavor.
The Five SKUs
UZI Handguard Set — $9.95
The UZI handguard set is the front-hand furniture that covers the barrel shroud and gives the support hand a heat-isolating grip surface. Early Uzi production used wood handguards; later IMI and licensed production switched to glass-reinforced polymer in the same profile. The replacement set fits standard-pattern full-size Uzi receivers — the most common consumable on a working Uzi because the handguards are the first surface to take wear, take heat damage, or crack from impact.
UZI Folding Stock — $16.95
The UZI underfolding metal stock is the iconic four-strut stock that collapses under the receiver to take the Uzi from carbine length down to roughly 17 inches overall. The metal strut design is meaningfully more rigid than the wire-stock approach the M3 grease gun and the British Sten used, and the lockup is positive in both the extended and folded positions. Replacement is straightforward once the stock-retention pin is driven out — common upgrade or replacement on Uzis whose original stocks have worn, bent under impact, or developed latch-spring fatigue.
UZI Ratcheting Top Cover — $83.72
The UZI ratcheting top cover is the receiver top cover with the sliding ratcheting pawl — the original IMI design that lets the bolt cycle without binding against the cover and provides positive cocking- handle detents in the forward, intermediate, and rearward positions. The premium price relative to the other SKUs reflects the precision-machined steel construction and the pawl mechanism; it’s the part that takes the most repeat-cycle stress on the receiver and the most likely upgrade target for owners running aftermarket non-ratcheting covers.
UZI Magazines — $10.29
The UZI 9x19mm box magazine in the standard 25 or 32-round configuration. The Uzi’s single-stack-to-double-stack feed lip geometry is specific to the platform — standard 9mm magazines from other SMG platforms (MP5, MP9, Sten) don’t interchange. Pricing at $10.29 is at the low end of the surplus 9mm magazine market and reflects the original IMI production batches that came out of the Israeli inventory rotation. Pair multiple for range use and competition. For collectors looking for a higher-spec original IMI-marked magazine, our separate IMI UZI 25-round magazine SKU is the manufacturer-marked variant for the same magazine pattern.
German UZI Mag Pouch — $21.95
The German Bundeswehr UZI mag pouch from the MP2 service era. Olive-drab cotton canvas double mag carrier designed to ride on the German load-bearing belt, carrying two 25 or 32-round Uzi magazines side-by-side with proper retention flaps. Genuine Bundeswehr surplus — not a reproduction — with the patina and issue wear that goes with a forty-plus-year-old field-issued piece of canvas. The pouch crosses two of our catalog axes: it’s a UZI part (fits Uzi mags specifically) and it’s German military surplus from the same cohort as the Flecktarn uniforms and leather service belts we stock in the clothing catalog.
Civilian Ownership Notes
The full-auto Uzi is an NFA-regulated machine gun in the United States. Pre-1986 transferable Uzis can be owned with the appropriate ATF paperwork, but they command prices well into five figures on the transferable market because the 1986 Hughes Amendment closed the registry. Civilian US ownership of new Uzi-pattern firearms is via the semi-auto carbine configuration with a 16-inch barrel (16″ barrel + permanently-attached muzzle device satisfies the rifle-length requirement) and the closed-bolt semi-auto fire control group. Importers and manufacturers of these include Vector Arms, Group Industries, Centurion Arms, and the modern Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) Uzi Pro pistol pattern. Parts compatibility between full-auto and semi-auto Uzis is partial: furniture, stocks, top covers, and magazines interchange; fire control parts do not (and shouldn’t be made to). The five SKUs in this catalog all fall in the interchange-OK category and fit both semi-auto carbines and full-auto transferables.
Pairing & Cross-References
The UZI Parts category sits inside the broader military surplus parts catalog alongside the other institutional-platform parts buckets — the SKS parts, Makarov parts, Thompson parts, PPS-43 parts, and M2HB parts sub-categories. For Uzi magazines and related surplus-platform magazines in one view, see the military surplus magazines sub-category. For the broader gun parts catalog covering modern-platform parts (1911, AR, AK, Glock, M14, M16, M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, Mosin Nagant, and the rest), the gun-parts parent is the place to start. And because the German MP2 mag pouch sits across two catalog axes, the German Army surplus collection is the cross-cut that filters all our German-issued items into one view alongside the Flecktarn uniforms, leather service belts, and other Bundeswehr-era kit.
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