After acquiring my first exemption for a Ruger MK4 22/45 and posting about it the other day, figured I’d do a follow up showing it in action and providing thoughts for anyone else looking to purchase one with their exemption! Feel free to ask any more questions not answered on the last post about either the gun or the exemption process or anything in between!
First thoughts, came with a lockable hard case, two magazines, one cable lock, and a couple other accessories, so good value out of the gate. As far as shooting, given it’s brand new, there’s bound to be a couple issues that will smooth out with firing over time. Had a couple stovepipes, but that was remedied after sending a few mags down range. The biggest issue was failure to extract (except it reset the firing pin weirdly enough). In the 100 odd rounds I shot, probably every 4th or 5th magazine had one of these. Interestingly, it only ever happened on the 10th round feeding into the 9th, so truthfully, I suspect it’s less the gun’s fault and more the pinned magazine having reliability issues cycling the final couple rounds (which are a squeeze to get in with the round limiting block pinned at the bottom).
Overall, I’m super happy with the purchase, personally. If you were only going to file for one exemption, maybe you’d get something 2000$+. But I figured I’d play it safe and try a cheaper yet reliable pistol as my first exemption, in case it didn’t work out. Needless to say, this is kind of the maverick 88 of rimfire pistols. No nonsense, rugged, dependable, and a small handful of little features to customize.
Next exemption has been requested so I’ll make a post when that happens as well! Thank you to everyone for the attention last post, and to everyone who DM’d, I hope I answered your questions, and feel free to ask any more if you need! And to the few 1 hour old bot accounts that begged for exemptions in my DM’s with exactly the same wording between all of you, better luck next time (poly) ;)
