.22 Long Rifle Rifles & Pistols

Magnum Sports lists about 325 firearms chambered in .22 Long Rifle — more than 240 rifles and around 80 pistols — with over 80 available to buy today from Ruger, CZ, Tikka, Lithgow Arms, Bergara, Savage, Anschutz, Henry, Chiappa, Rossi, Walther, Smith & Wesson, Browning and Hammerli. The .22 LR is the cartridge every shooter starts on: cheap to feed, quiet, accurate, and the standard for small game, pest control, rimfire benchrest and target pistol.

In NSW .22 LR bolt-action, lever-action and single-shot rifles are Category A; self-loading .22 rifles are Category C and restricted. All .22 LR pistols are Category H and need a pistol licence, which in NSW is obtained through an approved pistol club — and in the first six months of a new probationary pistol licence only air pistols and .22 rimfire pistols can be acquired, which makes a .22 the usual first handgun. Every firearm purchase in NSW needs a current licence in the right category and a Permit to Acquire (PTA) for that firearm; since 1 July 2026 a PTA is only issued once you show you meet the safe-storage requirements, and licences now run for a maximum of two years. Interstate buyers order online and we transfer dealer to dealer to your nominated licensed dealer (longarm freight $65, $85 to WA; handguns $30). Ammunition is sold for collection in store only and is never shipped.

Rimfire rifles start at about $450, most .22 LR hunting and plinking rifles sit between $600 and $1,500, and target rifles and match pistols from Anschutz, Tikka, Walther, Pardini and Hammerli run from $2,000 to $7,500.