Quoted: Needless to say, I'm a tad confused.
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Okay, well this may or may not help, but here goes.
Back in 1968 there was a law enacted that said (among lots of other things) that firearms could not be imported unless they were for sporting purposes.
In 1989 George Bush Sr. issued an executive order that ordered ATF to become much more strict in their definition of "sporting" where assault rifles are concerned. That is why all of the FALs, AKs, and other cool rifles started being sold with the ugly thumbhole stocks.
Not long after that, Congress put the law 922(r) on the books which says that it is illegal to use imported parts to build a weapon in a configuration that ATF wouldn't allow to be imported as a complete rifle. For a year or two after that things were all over the place. Some people said that using even one imported part would be illegal, some said that even one domestic made part would make it legal. Finally ATF issued a directive saying that a weapon is considered imported so long as no more than a certain number of 'major parts' are imported. What that means is that if you reduce the number of foreign made parts on your rifle then it will be considered a domestic rifle no matter where the receiver was built. And if it's 'domestic' then you don't have to worry about keeping it 'suitable for sporting purposes'.
On the DR200, you have to replace the stock and pistol grip obviously. Then if you replace the hammer and trigger with USA made parts then you'll be okay so long as you don't use foreign magazines. That means that US military surplus mags and regular Thermolds are okay. Orlites (Israeli), Thermolds with a maple leaf (Canadian) and any other foreign AR mags such as the metal Sterling mags or any actual Daewoo mags are not legal to use.
For more info on keeping your Daewoo legal with a pistol grip stock, you can start here:
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/atf_letter25.txt -fixed the link