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Congratulations! You picked a good gun for your introduction to handgunning.
Now, let me give you a bit of advice. .22 handguns often have distinct preferences in ammo. Therefore, I suggest that you try as many different as you can find to start. Since you have an auto your first concern is reliability; find the stuff that feeds. Then learn what's most accurate in your gun. This takes a while unless you have an expensive machine rest. Don't worry so much about reliability for the first couple hundred rounds. Those first cartridges will to a great extent remove little burrs as they move through the gun and as you manipulate the gun.
Next, do not dry fire any rimfire. The firing pin will hit the edge of the chamber and eventually damage it. Some people use a fired case and keep turning it to solve the problem. You can also buy snap caps as I do. You can pull the slide back just a little to recock without ejecting the case.
I have replaced the spring assembly with the Brass stacker captured spring. Makes it much easier to reassemble my p22. Its only 25 delivered. You can buy them for the sr22 also
"Private" and "dealer" are mutually exclusive terms when discussing gun sales - there's no such thing as a "private dealer."
If it was a private seller, the rules are different than if it was a federally licensed firearms dealer. I don't know what the laws are like in Virginia, but here in Nevada, there is no obligation for a private seller to run a background check or transfer a firearm through a licensed dealer. Virginia may be basically the same.
Note that this has nothing to do with gun shows. The term "gun show loophole" was made up by anti-gun types to try and further their agenda. The same seller could have placed a classified ad in the local paper, or he could have stood on the side of the road with a sandwich board over his torso, and all the same laws would apply. A gun show is just a convenient venue.
Yes that is one of the forms. I have no idea what he should be called and I am not for or against gun shows. My main thing is how easy it is for any person to get a gun at a venue like this without any type of background check or even waiting period.
I am obviously not an anti-gun person, so lets not go down that road. I don't know what Virginia laws are, either.
"Private" and "dealer" are mutually exclusive terms when discussing gun sales - there's no such thing as a "private dealer."
If it was a private seller, the rules are different than if it was a federally licensed firearms dealer. I don't know what the laws are like in Virginia, but here in Nevada, there is no obligation for a private seller to run a background check or transfer a firearm through a licensed dealer. Virginia may be basically the same.
Note that this has nothing to do with gun shows. The term "gun show loophole" was made up by anti-gun types to try and further their agenda. The same seller could have placed a classified ad in the local paper, or he could have stood on the side of the road with a sandwich board over his torso, and all the same laws would apply. A gun show is just a convenient venue.
There is one minor distinction to point out, I to live in Virginia, but the difference is there can be a FFL dealer and a private sale from the same person. If the dealer bought a weapon and did not use their FFL number to record it, then it is out of their private stock, and selling that type of weapon would not require a background check. I have been to so some gun shows, and at a licensed FFL dealer, and they would indicate 2 or 3 of the purchases would not have to pay any sales tax since it was from their private stock, where others would be the normal background check, and applicable sales tax.
I've always wanted to get one with a Hello Kitty emblem on it. They can all laugh at me at the range all they want...they'll stop when they see my nice, tight grouping.
Congratulations! You picked a good gun for your introduction to handgunning.
Now, let me give you a bit of advice. .22 handguns often have distinct preferences in ammo. Therefore, I suggest that you try as many different as you can find to start. Since you have an auto your first concern is reliability; find the stuff that feeds. Then learn what's most accurate in your gun. This takes a while unless you have an expensive machine rest. Don't worry so much about reliability for the first couple hundred rounds. Those first cartridges will to a great extent remove little burrs as they move through the gun and as you manipulate the gun.
The SR22 prides itself as being one of the few semi-auto's that will feed anything In my experience, it's true. Have never had a problem with mine.
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Next, do not dry fire any rimfire. The firing pin will hit the edge of the chamber and eventually damage it. Some people use a fired case and keep turning it to solve the problem. You can also buy snap caps as I do. You can pull the slide back just a little to recock without ejecting the case.
According to the SR22 Users Manual, dry firing is perfectly acceptable and will not damage the gun. Of course, just as a matter of good practice, I rarely dry fire mine.
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