Not intended to prolong this thread, but I sent both of my 21As back to a Beretta service center last summer for refurbishing. I left the finishes alone, but had the internals inspected and springs and pins replaced as necessary. Oddly, my older pistol which had digested more rounds and suffered pins that worked themselves loose required less work than the newer version. I've only played with them a little bit since getting them back, but they both work. I discovered that neither like CCI Mini Mag primers - they may have not liked them before but I don't remember. I fired a couple of magazines of the new Winchester Silvertip .22LR with no feeding or ejection issues. Got a box of the Federal Punch .22 LR and fired a couple of magazines through one of them and experienced failures to eject. Anyway, I will have to run them a bit more. One thing I noted is that while the sights were never optimal, they're worse now that my vision has somewhat deteriorated and corrective lenses sort of don't meet at the halfway to see the sights all that well. I tried to remedy the problem with orange nail polish on the front sight, but these things are currently more point and shoot than precision currently. Anyway, while they're neat little guns, I am thinking seriously about a J-frame snub in .22LR as a pocket pistol.