While I love, love, love my 9200 and 500's, when I was looking at .22 AR's for Robert I was appalled by the Mossberg's. They had simply taken their Plinkster and slapped AR looking furniture around it. You had to remove impossible to remove screws to disassemble it for cleaning, the controls weren't were the controls are on any other AR rifle. Overall it was a big ball of suck inside a turd wrapper. I pass and got him an S&W 15-22 with MBUS sights and magpul stock. Same controls as any other AR and lots of fun to shoot.