Daewoo K2 / DR200
South Korea's service rifle in civilian form. Imported to Canada in the 1990s as an early non-AR semi-auto. Named SOR/2020-96.
Is the Daewoo K2 / DR200 banned in Canada? Yes. The Daewoo K2 / DR200 is prohibited in Canada. It was named in SOR/2020-96 (May 2020). If you owned one before the deadline, confirm whether it appears on the federal Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program list. The current amnesty for prohibited firearms expires 90 days after the latest Supreme Court appeal termination under SOR/2026-114.
Classification: Prohibited · OIC/SOR: SOR/2020-96 · Ban-Risk: Already Gone · Compensation: Confirm federal list · Amnesty: SCC appeals + 90 days
Verdict
The Daewoo K2 is the standard service rifle of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, adopted in 1984 and manufactured by Daewoo Precision Industries (now S&T Motiv after the 2006 corporate restructuring). The DR200 is the civilian semi-automatic export variant that reached the Canadian market through the 1990s — one of the earliest non-AR semi-auto centrefires available to Canadian sport shooters before the wider import of European service-rifle-derived civilian platforms in the 2000s and 2010s. Canadian importation ceased by the late 1990s but the rifles remained in Canadian collector and sport-shooter hands until SOR/2020-96 named the platform on May 1, 2020. The DR200 sits with the Beretta Cx4 Storm, the Robinson XCR-L, the CZ Scorpion EVO 3, and the Steyr AUG in the cluster of platforms that defined Canadian sporting-semi-auto access in the pre-2020 era — all original-OIC Already Gone.
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Lineage
Parents: US M16 (visual / mechanical reference for the K2's design) → K2 South Korean service rifle → DR200 / DH380 civilian export variants
Primary sources for this entry
- Canada Gazette — Canada Gazette. accessed 2026-05-27
- Daewoo K2 Wikipedia reference (Tertiary, accessed 2026-05-27) — Other. accessed 2026-05-27
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