Northeast Airsoft MP2A1 (Uzi) Review, Upgrades, and Fixes

Today we're taking a look at Northeast Airsoft's newest GBB product and their first design beyond Sten variants- a gas blowback MP2A1, known more colloquially as the Uzi. This airsoft gun has some issues out of the box, so while we go through reviewing the gun itself we also talk about some of the fixes.
NOTE: In the video we describe the barrel as a VSR-style. As pointed out in the comments, this is not exactly a VSR-spec barrel, as it has a different arrangement of cutouts. Barrels intended for WE GBBRs or the TM MWS should be a drop-in fit, but we suggest comparing the cutouts to the ones on the stock barrel before purchasing a replacement (if desired).
0:00- Intro & History
2:11- Externals
8:07- Disassembly
9:04- Internals
18:44- Summary of Issues
19:59- Controls & Operation
23:10- Shooting Performance
24:38- Accuracy
26:19- Maintenance
26:52- Additional Performance
28:16- Practicality
30:20- Real-Steel Aftermarket
32:22- Conclusions
Music:
Nihilore - Dream Sunlight
Nihilore - Panthalassa
Nihilore - Sparkwood 21
Nihilore - Terminant
Nihilore - The Author Never Dies

[@knowtheplan472]

the bit with the different outfits at the start was a nice touch 👌🏿

[@RedMenace0]

yes i really liked the tommy vercetti ass one at the end

[@simon_96]

Very impressive Real gun is banned in Taiwan so props to NE for getting it right We had fragile Japanese guns and very crap Chinese guns for airsoft now decades later we get this kind of gun from a tiny new company it's definitely the result of labor of love of these guys there's no way the number of sales can justify development and manufacturing cost of this thing

[@sp204b]

I know I'm a year late to the conversation, but I had to say this. I have been a FFL/ class 3 firearms dealer here in th USA for 14 years. I have, and had my hands one real smg's imi export, Non Export (IDF use) and foreign made copies. This is the best replica I have ever seen. I was so impressed, I want to order one for my shop, as a wall hanger. Replace some of the parts with originals. Very very impressive cosmetically, both the German and IDF versions

[@BadaBingPictures]

The best review of the MP2A1! Great work.

[@edgelord3801]

The only informátive review atm

[@Ultra-Collector]

Yours is just as amazing BBP!

[@justinlapid2163]

No other Airsoft Channel like this one! Extra cool because of real steel firearms comparisons in a lot of the videos. Not to mention, feedback from real steel shooters who don't bash Airsoft 😊 what a special channel!

[@thetwixlord]

Excellent review as always! Very clear on pros and cons and I really like how you address issues with possible solutions. Really helpful for both potential and current owners.

[@BB2K-Airsoft]

Wauh! best review I've seen. extremely much information. thank you very much for that. I see how much work and love you put into this review. Greetings from Germany

[@KB-xq6yv]

Thank you for the first review of this model with useful and objective information.

[@traximus4642]

I appreciate the costume changes, it really shows that this weapon fits alot of different anesthetics.

[@Taseden]

Damn, how do you guys not have more subscribers. Some of the best airsoft content.

[@gaveintothedarkness]

This was a top notch review. Subbed!! Also looking back at your video playlist, its nice that I actually watched your videos before. I remember the AUG videos and how amazing they were.

[@HeavyRecoilClub]

Outstanding review!

[@chinoyomaji288]

Man. This is gonna be my first gbb gun. I was wanting the sten but i think this is a better grab

[@darkshock42mlg05]

Now we need a proper micro uzo in airsoft. Inknow a gbb micro uzi can be done because ot has been done a long time ago with the long defunct micro uzi. They are now collectirs items ans have no upgrade parts. You cant run them on green has because it was made by maruzen. If your gbb pistol was made by tokyo marui, maruzen, or marushin, dont use green gas because you will break it. Why else do you think most tm's have metal uppers as the first upgrade.

[@seanjameson3544]

Excellent review, really first class. Thanks!

[@muffen100]

Thank you so much for doing this video

[@OtakuGekko]

Outstanding as always!

[@mikleman996]

Best review ive seen so far

[@gmodiscool14]

somebody needs to make an aftermarket bolt for this thing that is super heavy to slow down the firerate and includes the spring mod mentioned in this video.

[@RealFakeGuns]

Great video!

[@MrJose786]

Great vid, best vid on NE Uzi so far, do you reckon a tight bore barrel would help with the grouping at 20 yards ?

[@GriFF-]

Oh look the definitive review of the NE Uzi just dropped.

[@kingpinstewie4961]

First 10 seconds was all it took for me to subscribe

[@Holanduzo]

The way to stop the bolt when out ob bbs is the same style as the M11 from KWA. I hope Northeast does a propper M11 with a normal hop up system instead of the terrible KWA's hop up with the ball bearing.

[@manifestman132]

Those k grips are pretty hard to find but a fore grip with rails are out there too. Though personally a uzi is better bare but a tactical one can be fun.

[@stewbacca117]

Great work, a friend just recommended your channel to me 👏🍻

[@Andre_Thomasson]

It really is the best channel for reviews

[@bigbuna]

very good review i ve watch all your vid very nice channel

[@regimes]

Thanks so much for this.

[@franciscof.martin5983]

Wow, great review

[@kylethedalek]

I wish the bolt was heavier just to give a hard kick. And maybe C02.

[@Terminatorbart]

I had a neon green micro uzi squirt gun!

[@TheBaronAirGunReviews]

Looks great I want one with the wood stock.

[@comradequicheairsoft2742]

Awesome video as always! And thanks for the shoutout!

[@0marbles0]

The last rating bit was good.

[@ste887]

"You're not carrying it as a side arm" me who has one clipped to the helmet clip in the right armpit of my assault vest "Huh....." I'm just teasing, just been a little injoke in our team that i tend to use a comical sidearm. got a m11 with a leather chest holster, a p90 with a kydex holster you slot the front of it into, and it locks around the handstop at the front when its on its sling, and a drop leg holster for a super shorty or a hawshan double barrel. (not all at the same time, that would be a little too silly) as the site rule for the larpy event is "if you want to use a non standard weapon as a side arm (aka not a standard pistol) you must have a holster for it" and that's mostly to stop people slinging a dozen rifles and claiming them to be side arms as they're covered under different rules for the post apocalypse event than primary weapons are. that and SMG/PDW in the place of a pistol (or other suitably large hand cannons) does fit our team of raiders quite well. and sometimes its nice to have something other than the cut down double barrels we used to use as team sidearms (utterly impractical sidearm choice, but fit the theme quite well with the mad max nod and all)

[@RedIvanAirsoft]

Received one like this last week, after first shot rubber sealing flew away ( Miami heat), now I have no magazines to shoot 😀

[@T3HM4N244]

You mention around 2:40 that the finish is intended to absorb oil that's rubbed in to it. Would you recommend that for the surface parts of this replica? If so, what kind of oil should be used for this?

[@whostheplum1711]

Question, what sort of gun oil would you use on the external steel of models like this?

[@fallennatas5230]

Anyone know of the mags are still having feeding issues? I get down to the last few bbs and it won't shoot. Just curious.

[@DrEpicPhD]

Are you waiting for the next uzi drop to review the updates?

[@matthewspindler14]

Does anyone know where to get a replacement barrel tip for the orange plastic tip it comes with in the US? Northeast isn't responding to my emails and I think they are closed.

[@jprezz9123]

Are you referencing Mike from spaced at 0:07 ? Or am I way off haha

[@cultura0455]

i want that so much but everywere ita out of stock :(

[@ibbyseed]

i cant find one anywhere! where do u even get one of these

[@gdawg1535]

is the nozzle proprietary? or are there third party upgrades for the nozzle

[@Starkiller0210]

What is the name of the hop up rubber? Can I buy the hop up rubber separately?

[@fallennatas5230]

The dry fire switch. Does that need to be pushed forward or backward from the lip in order to load? Seems like a pain to load. Am I missing something?

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

If you aren't trying to dry fire, there's no need to touch it. All it does is prevent the follower from coming up high enough to block the nozzle. The magazine can be loaded equally easily whether it is engaged or disengaged.

[@georgeboultadakis8530]

Can u use a c02 micro uzi mag?

[@ijn_nanodesu]

Any solution for loading the version 2 magazines? Unsurprisingly, Comrade Quiche's adapter doesn't work, but the lips are still too wide for the standard gbb speedloader heads.

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

We have the updated feed lips, and ComradeQuiche's speedloader adapter (designed for the first round of feed lips) still works with them. We're not sure what might be going on with yours that it doesn't fit.

[@ijn_nanodesu]

@Explosive Enterprises weird then, maybe it's the speedloader I'm using? It's simply not loading smoothly at all and I end up with BBs jamming the adapter. I'm not sure what would be causing it but thanks regardless!

[@nathanieltyler5048]

“Wrong handed shooter”😂🤘🏼

[@Botclone]

REAL

[@fallennatas5230]

I want to remove the orange tip on mine and put the original back on. Do you know if the threads are counter clock wise or clock wise? Just want to know before removing and making sure I turn the right way to remove the tip.

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

Check at 3:20, there are no threads on the barrel.

[@fallennatas5230]

@@ExplosiveEnterprises the tip on the barrel does come out. Only reason I know this is becuase northeast was kind enough to give me the black tip to replace the orange one. I'm sure it's an easy process of removing. Again I just want to make sure I am not tightens when I go to remove the tip.

[@fallennatas5230]

What exactly did you file on the wood stock to make it fit the replica?

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

The attachment slot had to be widened very slightly to fit over the stock tang on the receiver.

[@johanchristianto2438]

REVIEW GLOCK PLEASE

[@ExitStrategyNow]

Nice Hawaii Shirt 😁👌

[@michagromek6342]

👍

[@tyler1768]

Ok the picture you showed of a so called dirivitive is a czech gun made at least 15 years before uzi

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

The gun at 1:44 that you are mistaking for a Sa 23/25 is actually a Kommando/LDP, first manufactured in 1975. Like the Uzi it is a Sa 23 derivative, but borrows many of the design changes (and magazines) implemented in the Uzi.

[@kenny_boii]

A teenage girl brought one to a game last week. She got shot to SHIT as she a ton of feeding issues, she'd round the corner pull the trigger and nothing would happen.

[@454FatJack]

Uziel Gal was born in city of Weimar und name Gotthard Glass. MP2 German design 😂

[@MrSilencer16]

iv just brought the Northeast Uzi and it arrived today am i ok to just start using it straight away without maintaining it first before i go out into the field ?

[@nexuzZX]

26:52 holy shit dude you need to put an epilepsy warning here

[@poopl00p3r]

they shoulda just let it be closed bolt

[@MAACotton]

But it's an authentically terrible trigger 😂 Incredibly well produced video.

[@TwinGunz]

Man this sucker has a price tag, is it worth the price tag?

[@tyler1768]

So basically your paying 500 plus for something thats trash good to now

[@maccumhaill5534]

It's an Arnold tier Airsoft gun with a lot of potential for those who can deal with a few wee bugs. Been waiting 30+ years for this.

[@red4711]

Lmao. Keep that same energy on the field 😂

[@swcblad]

looks like mp7 ish

[@j.ramsey8863]

I'm new to the sport and I cannot find any information on whether these magazines are compatible with the Odin Speed Loader. Do you have this knowledge?

[@Blin240]

homie is casually flexing his sbr uzi

[@alextatkin1026]

That is NOT a VSR barrel. VSR and pistol barrels have a different retainer cut. A true VSR spec barrel will not fit!!!! This is a pistol cut barrel and the buckings are universal.

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

Unfortunately, it is more complex than pistol vs VSR- Marui pistols actually use VSR-cut barrels, many brands of GBB rifles use what you call pistol-cut barrels (we've seen it referred to as 'GBB-spec'), and there are multiple other cut types used on GBBs also derived from the VSR baseline. So, when we said that it is a VSR-spec barrel, we just meant that it is a typical unbridged design that takes VSR buckings; you are 100% correct that compared to original VSR barrels it has an extra set of cutouts. If you want to swap it, you will need to either verify that whatever aftermarket barrel you are considering using has the extra set of cuts, add cuts yourself as necessary, or remove the additional indexing lugs from the hop unit. We apologize for the confusion, and will clarify in our intended follow-up video.

[@alextatkin1026]

@@ExplosiveEnterprises Go take apart some tm pistols, and then a vsr and compare the cuts. The vsr cut is about 1mm closer to the window of the barrel. I have several TMs here, just took the barrel out of a m&p and a 1911, and I have a fnx and a hk45 taken apart here. All have pistol cut with the notch 1mm forward from the grove for the front of bucking. Im not talking about the extra cutouts at all. The cut position is different between vsr and pistol. Prove me wrong. im literally looking at this stuff in front of me. hands on.

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

@@alextatkin1026 I think we might be talking past each other here. You are correct, the position of the cut is very slightly different between some of TM's pistol barrels and VSR barrels (though not universally- take a look at a Mk23 barrel). In some guns, this means it is necessary to file the cutout to swap barrels, but because neither requires any additional set of cutouts, you can still fit a VSR barrel in a 1911 with minimal modification and vice versa. You can not, however, drop a TM 1911 barrel in the Northeast Uzi, as it lacks the additional forward set of cuts altogether. Again, the point is that there is significant variation in cut styles (and not just 'VSR' versus 'pistol'), but the use of an unbridged barrel and VSR bucking is the common thread between them.

[@alextatkin1026]

@@ExplosiveEnterprises Also take a look at the g26, also uses true vsr cut. Im agreeing w you. But generally, most of them use the pistol cut. And I have yet to work on a gbbr that uses true vsr spec. And yup, been there done that with modifying the notch to fit. Had to do it to a pdi barrel to fit into a kjw glock build many years ago. Ill argue that the second set of retainer notches are unnecessary in virtually all setups. Should be shimming your barrel to the unit anyways. Id get rid of them, file flush, opens the door to so many more inner barrel options. I feel you but my whole point is you telling people this takes a vsr barrel could possibly mislead. Its reasonable to think some end users will remove the forward notches, but then a vsr barrel wont sit right without modification. So just could save one of your viewers from unnecessary headache by simply referring to the barrel correctly as a pistol or gbb cut barrel.

[@ExplosiveEnterprises]

​@@alextatkin1026 That's reasonable. We'll add a note to the description, and clarify further when we do a follow-up, hopefully once the new feed lips arrive and we have a chance to test them out.

[@keith20thSOS]

Well, I'm Sure As Hell Not Buying One Of Those BUGGY Pieces of $hit!