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I've dry fired Ruger 10/22 rifles and MKII pistols many thousands of times with no ill effect whatsoever, EXCEPT once when I reassembled a pistol without replacing the firing pin stop. The damage to the barrel, not the firing pin, was immediate.
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Yep. Did the same thing with a Ruger Mk.II. One dry fire and the breech was peened.
Fortunately, there is a tool that will repair the damage by swaging the edge of the peen back.
It works. The gun has been used for many thousands of rounds since the carelessness.