My Canadian Cousin: very nice CZ .22 rifle, for shooting gophers in his pasture. My dad (after I left and absconded with everything...but)...a 1903 Win 1897 12 guage (I have it too now)
My first gun was a used Marlin single shot 22, don't know where it is, (which daughter took it) my second gun was a Marlin Model 60 repeater and I still have it and all the rest.....22. my third gun was an original Rugar Bearcat...22, my fourth gun was a Rem 700, my fith gun was a 38 cal Colt revolver...then I moved out of the house...everything since then has been either High Standard, or CZ, all older, even the one I purchased last year.
I have one daughter (out of 5) that want's them ALL...yes, she has her own too, but she still wants the whole collection.
I think I would go with most folk have a .22 as an only gun though I do have one daughter that has an lonely gun, it is a shotgun, but she expects some from me when I go.