No, I got into firearms during the Obama years. Unfortunately, most of it ended up being crap or required extensive mods to get it up to date. People getting into guns today are better off because everything comes with pic/quad/mlok rails and QD mounts now, even lever actions and shotguns can come with pic rails. You've got QLS/ALS holsters, awesome belts and carriers and shit, it's just hard to get and expensive. I have a 10/22 and a 22/45. It's handy for fundamentals but it's not an AR and and glock. Having those guns doesn't get me much additional capability and .22 is expensive now. You end up buying a cool Magpull 10/22 stock, pik rail and red dot, some 25 round mags and your 250 dollar walmart gun is now a 6-700 dollar gun and still isn't an AR-15. Now they have those CMMG .22 drop in bolt conversion kits or a complete upper. That's what you'd want, then you can shoot .22 out of your AR.