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Kel-Tec RDB
Kel-Tec's flagship bullpup. Downward-ejection mechanism made it the most ambidextrous bullpup on the market. Named with the entire Kel-Tec catalogue.
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Steve Coppola is the editor of Holdover, a Canadian publication covering precision shooting, firearms policy, handloading, tools, and lawful firearms ownership.
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Heckler & Koch USC
The civilian-sporting version of the HK UMP submachine gun. Engineered to clear US 1994 feature law. Named anyway in Canada 2024.
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Bushmaster ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle)
The flagship modular rifle that the Canadian sport-shooting market remembers from 2010-era marketing campaigns. Named in 2024 alongside Bushmaster's entire civilian catalogue.
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Derya Arms MK10
Derya's flagship bullpup shotgun. Lower-priced than the Hunt Group FD12, identical regulatory outcome. The Turkish bullpup segment ended on March 7, 2025.
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Hunt Group FD12
Turkish bullpup 12-gauge that defined the Canadian sport-shotgun segment for half a decade. Named alongside its siblings on March 7, 2025.
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Crusader Arms Crusader 9
Ontario-made, AR180B-derived, freedom-package pricing. Launched 2021; prohibited 2024. Three years of Canadian manufacture between debut and the named list.
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PGW Defence Technologies Direwolf
A Manitoba-engineered semi-auto .338 Lapua. RCMP classification was pending; SOR/2024-248 named it before civilian sales began.
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Black Creek Labs SRV2 Badger
A Canadian-engineered, Canadian-manufactured rifle launched at TACCOM 2024 in Toronto. Eight months later, the OIC named it.
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Lever Arms LA-K12 Puma
The Index's first shotgun entry. A semi-auto bullpup whose Canadian-importer story is the case for tracking shotguns under the same methodology.
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Beretta ARX160
A .22 LR rimfire designed to look like its centrefire military parent. The lineage is cosmetic. The regulation read the cosmetics anyway.
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Springfield Armory Hellion
Released to the Canadian market in 2023. Prohibited by the OIC the next year. The shortest commercial life of any rifle on the Index.
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M+M Industries M10X
Engineered to clear the FRT as Non-restricted in Canada. RCMP-approved 2017. Named by OIC 2024. The pathway worked the other way around.