I want to have a suppressed .22 by the end of the year. It’ll be my first foray into the NFA world.
I currently don’t own a .22, so I’ll have to start there. The guys in #gbc convinced me to avoid the Sig Mosquito because of quality issues and instead go with a Ruger MkIII. I’ve discovered that I can get one with a threaded barrel on Gunbroker for around $350 + shipping and whatever an FFL will charge me for the transfer. (I’m also considering tracking how much the .gov adds to the cost of this project through taxes, fees, and regulations, but it might be too depressing. We’ll see.)
Since we are now debt-free (except the house), I plan on upping our blow money after we build a fence for Casey and replacing the refrigerator. We have a strict “you can spend blow money any way you want, but outside of that new guns means new jewelry of the same price” rule in our house so increasing blow money means a better chance of actually getting a new firearm.
I’ll probably be able to get the Ruger around April. The suppressor will take a bit longer because of 1)taxes and 2)paperwork. I hope to have it by September, but it might be November.
Just a suggestion: If you can, go for a MkII instead of a MkIII. The only real difference between the two models is that Ruger loaded the MkIII down with lawyer features – a magazine
un-safety, an internal lock, and a loaded chamber indicator.I got a MkIII because that was what I could find and afford at the time, and because I know I will eventually (hopefully many, many years from now) inherit Dad’s old Ruger Standard.
If you have to get a MkIII make sure it’s a new one, or if it’s used make sure that the loaded chamber indicator is not the original version. The first ones had a design flaw in that if the indicator flag was struck with sufficient force (say, by being dropped on it) it would set off the round in the chamber. They did a recall on that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were still a few floating around with the old flag.
And like you, I don’t have any resolutions for the year (except maybe to do better with my money, but I say that every year), but I would like to get a .22 rifle this year – probably a Ruger 10/22.
Have you thought about finding one that is integrally suppressed?
I dont want my first to be integrally suppressed because I may want to use the suppressor on other weapons, such as a 10/22 or an AR trainer.
NFA stuff is banned here. I hate you.
I have the MKIII 22/45 and the mag disconnect is a PITA – or would be if I had left it in the gun. Luckily it’s easy to yank the damn thing out and replace it with a couple of filed down washers. The chamber loaded indicator can also be easily removed by pulling one pin out with a magnet.
I certainly would appreciate an accounting of all the idiotic markups our federal government attaches to firearms, starting from their integral federal tax for ownership all the way up through the suppressor… Would certainly make for an interesting comparison against other Constitutionally-protected rights.
Can’t say anything bad about the Ruger. It’s been the standard that all other .22 plinking pistols have been held to for how long now?
I will say that, after a lot of research due to the girlfriend wanting one, it looks like SIG realized that they had a crap gun on their hands and fixed the Mosquito. I would avoid older ones, but it looks like any of them made since 2008 should be quality guns.
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