AK-47 Parts & Accessories
US Palm • Meprolight • KNS • 922(r) Compliant Trigger • East German Surplus
The complete parts-and-accessories catalog for Mikhail Kalashnikov's 1947 design — the most produced firearm in human history, still in continuous service across more than 100 countries. From the US-made AK-47 Trigger Group (essential 922(r) compliance part for imported AK builds) through Meprolight Israeli tritium night sights, the iconic US Palm Bakelite Orange pistol grip (the original Soviet aesthetic in modern polymer), East German NVA-issue cleaning kits and magazine pouches, the Chinese Type-56 chest bandolier, Romanian AK pouches, Saiga scope mounts, slings, and the AK-47 TekMat exploded-parts cleaning mat. Built for Yugoslav, Romanian, Bulgarian, East German, Chinese Type 56, and Saiga AK platforms.
About AK-47 Parts & Accessories at Keep Shooting
Keep Shooting's AK-47 Parts & Accessories catalog covers the parts an AK builder, AK owner, or Cold-War surplus collector needs to build, restore, or upgrade an AK-pattern rifle — internal mechanism components (US-made trigger group for 922(r) compliance), sights and optics mounts (Meprolight tritium night sights, KNS Precision sight pack, Saiga scope mount), furniture ( US Palm Bakelite-orange pistol grip), authentic Cold-War-era surplus accessories (East German NVA cleaning kit and mag pouch, Romanian mag pouch, Chinese Type-56 bandolier, slings), blank-fire adapters for training and film use, and the AK-47 TekMat cleaning surface from TekMat. For magazines specifically see our dedicated AK-47 Magazines hub.
Mikhail Kalashnikov and the AK-47. Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov (1919 – 2013) was a Soviet sergeant and self-taught weapons designer who began work on a new infantry rifle while recovering from a 1941 wound during the Battle of Bryansk. The Avtomat Kalashnikova obrazets 1947 — "Kalashnikov's automatic rifle, model 1947," shortened to AK-47 — was selected after competitive trials and adopted by the Soviet Army in 1949, chambered in the Soviet 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridge. The original AK-47 had a milled receiver; the simplified AKM ("Modernized") with a stamped receiver replaced it in 1959 and became the more common production pattern. The AK family is the most-produced firearm in human history with conservative estimates of 75 to 100 million rifles manufactured worldwide — more than every Mauser, Mosin, Garand, and AR-15 ever made combined. Kalashnikov-pattern rifles have served in essentially every Cold War proxy conflict and modern war from Vietnam and Afghanistan through Syria and Ukraine, on every side. The design's longevity comes from a deliberate engineering philosophy: loose tolerances that tolerate dirt, mud, sand, and sub-arctic to desert temperature ranges; few moving parts; simple peasant-armorer maintenance; and a recoil impulse mild enough that poorly-trained conscripts can shoot accurately enough at infantry ranges.
The variant family — Yugoslav, Romanian, Chinese, East German, and more. Because the Soviet Union licensed AK production widely across the Warsaw Pact and to allied states, the variant family is enormous and most variants have slightly different parts compatibility. The major patterns: Russian / Soviet (the original, plus modern Saiga civilian sporters and Vepr-pattern derivatives), Yugoslav M70 (made by Zastava Arms in Kragujevac, Serbia — bulged front trunnion, longer gas-piston system, distinctive three-vent handguards), Romanian (PSL marksman rifle, AKM derivatives — distinctive forward vertical grip on the underfolder; the Romanian mag pouch in our catalog is from this production lineage), Bulgarian (Arsenal AKKM and AR-M1 — Arsenal of Kazanlak is widely regarded as the highest- quality post-Soviet AK manufacturer; see also our Arsenal Inc brand page for US-spec Arsenal product), East German MPi-K and MPi-KM (the NVA service rifle through the 1989 reunification — distinctive plum Bakelite furniture and the highest manufacturing quality of any Warsaw Pact AK; East German parts and accessories are particularly prized among collectors), and the Chinese Type 56 (Norinco production, distinctive hooded front sight with a fully enclosed front-sight tower; the original PLA service rifle of the Korean War and Vietnam War eras, and the rifle that flooded the global market through the 1980s).
922(r) compliance — why a US-made trigger matters. Federal law (specifically 27 CFR 478.39, derived from Section 922(r) of the Gun Control Act) restricts the importation of "non-sporting" semi-automatic rifles. Imported AK-pattern rifles are typically modified after import to comply with 922(r) by replacing imported parts with US-made equivalents until the rifle has fewer than 10 of the 20 regulated foreign-made components. The trigger group — hammer, sear, and disconnector — is one of the regulated 20 parts, and substituting a US-made trigger group for the original imported one is one of the most common 922(r) compliance moves. Our AK47 Trigger Group - US Made ($69.60) from FIME Group is the standard 922(r)-compliance trigger — drop-in compatible with most AKM-pattern rifles and produced in the US to original Soviet specifications. AK builders converting Romanian, Yugoslav, Bulgarian, or other imported parts kits into US-legal complete rifles will inevitably need this part or equivalent.
Sights and optics — Meprolight and KNS. The factory AK iron sights — a tangent rear with 100m – 1000m ramp adjustment and a post front in a hooded tower — are functional but unrefined by modern standards: short sight radius, no adjustability for windage at the rear, and an aiming-system that requires daylight. The Meprolight AK-47 Night Sights ($151.40) — from the Israeli optics manufacturer Mepro Light Ltd. (founded 1990, supplier to the IDF and many world militaries) — replace the standard front and rear with tritium-illuminated equivalents for low-light and no-light shooting. The KNS AK47 Sight Pack ($41.95) from Texas- based KNS Precision is the AK-pattern sight upgrade kit including the front-sight adjustment tools and commonly-needed pin-and-roll-pin replacements. For the Saiga civilian variant — which uses a different receiver-cover-and-rear-trunnion setup than military AKs — our Saiga Scope Mount with Rings ($50.95) is the side-rail mount that provides the Picatinny / Weaver platform for traditional and modern optics mounting on Saiga sporters.
Bakelite — the iconic Soviet aesthetic. The original Soviet and Warsaw Pact AK furniture — pistol grips, magazines, handguards — was made of Bakelite, a phenolic resin developed in 1907 by Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland. Soviet Bakelite typically had a distinctive orange-brown to plum-red translucent color from the glass-fiber reinforcement and resin chemistry, and original Bakelite AK furniture is among the most collected and reproduced AK accessories on the market. Our US Palm AK-47 Pistol Grip - Bakelite Orange ($21.75) from US Palm reproduces the iconic Bakelite-orange aesthetic in modern impact-resistant polymer — same ergonomics, same color, but with modern material durability. US Palm also produces the well-regarded steel-cage 30-round AK-47 magazines and the special-edition "banana clip" 30-round magazine.
Cold-War surplus accessories. Beyond modern aftermarket parts, our catalog includes substantial authentic Cold-War surplus AK accessories. The East German AK47 Cleaning Kit ($10.95) is the original NVA-issue buttstock-stowed cleaning kit — sectional aluminum cleaning rod, bore brush, oil bottle, jag, and cloth pull-through, all in the original cylindrical container that stows in the AK buttstock storage compartment. The East German AK47 Magazine Pouch ($10.95) is the NVA-issue 4-magazine carrier in characteristic East German olive canvas. The Romanian AK-47 Magazine Pouch ($11.95) is the Romanian Army's flap-pattern equivalent. The Chinese Type-56 Chest Bandolier ($21.95) is the iconic chest rig with multiple AK-magazine pouches sewn directly into a torso harness — issued to PLA infantry through the 1990s and a familiar shape from documentary footage of every Cold War conflict in Asia. The Chinese AK-47 Sling ($12.95) and European Style AK-47 Sling ($13.95) are the simple two-point carrying slings in their respective regional patterns. These are authentic surplus items from East German, Romanian, and Chinese military stocks — not commercial reproductions.
Blank-fire adapters and training accessories. The East German AK-47 Blank Fire Adapter ($7.95) is the NVA-issue red blank-fire adapter — a barrel attachment that creates sufficient gas pressure to cycle the action on blank cartridges (which otherwise lack the projectile resistance needed to drive the gas-piston cycle). Used by NVA for training, the same component is used today for film and theatrical production, military reenactment, and reduced-impact training. The AK-47 Threaded Blank Fire Adapter ($6.30) is the modern threaded-on equivalent that works with any 14×1 LH metric muzzle-thread AK barrel. The AK-47 TekMat ($24.95) from TekMat is the printed cleaning mat with the AK-47 exploded-parts diagram and anti-static rubber backing — useful for armorer-level field- stripping and reassembly.
The AK platform today. The AK-47 platform's relevance has if anything increased in recent decades. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has produced enormous operational data on AK-pattern rifle performance under modern combat conditions; the rifle's adoption rate among insurgent and non-state actors continues to climb; and the American civilian AK market — driven by parts-kit builds, Yugoslav and Romanian imported sporters, Bulgarian Arsenal production, and the Saiga sporter line before the 2014 import ban — is large and active. For broader shopping see our Gun Parts hub or related categories for the AR Parts and SKS Parts (the SKS being the Soviet rifle the AK replaced — and a common companion-platform for AK collectors).
Keep Shooting ships all AK-47 parts from our Pennsylvania warehouse with free shipping on orders over $49.95 and hassle-free returns. Whether you are an AK-builder finalizing a Yugoslav, Romanian, or Bulgarian parts kit with a US-made trigger group for 922(r) compliance, an AK owner upgrading to Meprolight tritium night sights, a Cold-War militaria collector after authentic East German NVA cleaning kits and chest bandoliers, a Saiga civilian-sporter owner mounting an optic for the first time, or a film and theatrical production sourcing blank-fire adapters — every part in our AK catalog is from a respected manufacturer or authentic surplus source.
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