JustinL
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I am the first as far as I am aware.
How many first generation gun owners here?
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indoorsoccerfrea
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well, seeing as i am adopted...i don't really know!
Kind of Blued
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Cool idea for a thread/poll, I must say.
My maternal grandpa was a gun owner, but mom never owned one herself. My dad has shot quite a few guns, been on a few bird hunts, but he never owned a firearm.
...until I bought him a 91/30 last year for Father's Day.
From here on out, if you're a family member of mine, you get PLENTY of opportunity to "get into" guns.
My maternal grandpa was a gun owner, but mom never owned one herself. My dad has shot quite a few guns, been on a few bird hunts, but he never owned a firearm.
...until I bought him a 91/30 last year for Father's Day.
From here on out, if you're a family member of mine, you get PLENTY of opportunity to "get into" guns.
INSULATION TIM
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I don't come from a liberal family, but we just never had guns except a 22 rifle I had when I was about 16. I'm now 61 so it was a long stretch between. I never understood anyone owning guns, and frankly thought you were all nuts.
Then I started watching the world and this country starting to crumble. It 's clear to me that the police are not allowed to do their jobs as they and the community are scared ****less of a lawsuit for Police Brutality or Racial Discrimination agains the human pit bulls we house and protect in our cities. The police job seems to be limited to putting up the crime scene barrier tapes.
6 months ago, my 26 year old son was savagely attacked by 6 of those bastards referred to above.
5 months ago I purchased my first handgun. 3 Months ago I received my Concealed Carry Permit. 1 week ago, I purchased my 6th handgun.
I now understand all of you so much better and have been fortunate to have "gun nut" friends who tolerated me for lo those last 40 years.
Then I started watching the world and this country starting to crumble. It 's clear to me that the police are not allowed to do their jobs as they and the community are scared ****less of a lawsuit for Police Brutality or Racial Discrimination agains the human pit bulls we house and protect in our cities. The police job seems to be limited to putting up the crime scene barrier tapes.
6 months ago, my 26 year old son was savagely attacked by 6 of those bastards referred to above.
5 months ago I purchased my first handgun. 3 Months ago I received my Concealed Carry Permit. 1 week ago, I purchased my 6th handgun.
I now understand all of you so much better and have been fortunate to have "gun nut" friends who tolerated me for lo those last 40 years.
General Geoff
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Regarding my immediate nuclear family, I'm the only gun owner. However, some of my extended family (aunts and uncles) own many firearms so I can't really consider myself to be first-generation.
gvnwst
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Gun ownership has skipped the last two generations of my family, and before that, it was pretty much limited to being soliders as far as i know. My parents weren't anti, they actually supported my intrests and bought me all the guns i could pay for, untill, of course, i had gotten about 5, then they decided taht was enough till i was 17 or so.....after that...well, it should be pretty obvious.
P90shooter
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My Grandfather got me started back when I was about 7. He bought me my first rifle when I was 14. At 20 He gave me another rifle and shotgun. Its been all down hill from there, I try to buy as much as I can and shoot them as often as possible
2TransAms
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My parents are both strongly pro-gun, but at the same time feel no need to have one. Plenty of folks in my family have a .22 or shotgun and the occasional handgun, but I'm the first to have "more guns than I need", I guess. I'm the only one who shoots as a hobby, and has more than a box of ammo at home.
INSULATION TIM, welcome to THR! No, we're not all nuts.
Me, I guess my family has always had guns. I have my granddad's Winchester 1890 that his father bought for him back in the 1920s. My great granddad's favorite rifle was an 1895 Winchester in 30-40 Krag. My cousin still has it.
There are many family stories about "granddad and his Krag", touting the long range accuracy of the rifle. I keep telling them, "Its not the rifle, its the rifleman".
Me, I guess my family has always had guns. I have my granddad's Winchester 1890 that his father bought for him back in the 1920s. My great granddad's favorite rifle was an 1895 Winchester in 30-40 Krag. My cousin still has it.
There are many family stories about "granddad and his Krag", touting the long range accuracy of the rifle. I keep telling them, "Its not the rifle, its the rifleman".
ChemicalArts
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My mom is anti-gun, and my dad owns an old 22 pistol from about 60 years ago.
Funny thing, all my siblings have at least one gun regardless of their political leanings--liberal and conservative--we all believe in the right to self defense. I think this is becoming a popular opinion among my liberal friends and coworkers. Of course, I live in Texas, and liberal here means something different than it does in other places.
Funny thing, all my siblings have at least one gun regardless of their political leanings--liberal and conservative--we all believe in the right to self defense. I think this is becoming a popular opinion among my liberal friends and coworkers. Of course, I live in Texas, and liberal here means something different than it does in other places.
What, exactly, does liberal mean in Texas, as opposed to the other places you've lived?
KarenTOC
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I voted 1st generation, but I'm not sure it's technically accurate. The first person to become a "gun enthusiast" in my family was my son. It spread backwards up the family tree from there.
I've been trying to remember how I was brought up. I don't think my parents were antis -- I don't remember a single word ever said against guns, and we were allowed toy guns as kids. But no pro-gun talk either. As far as I know, they never owned a gun. Don't think it was an anti stance, though. Just no interest in shooting.
My parents were from Massachusettes. Relocated to Virginia when i was a baby (early 1950s). All my living aunts, uncles, and cousins are Massachusettes Democrats. I don't know their position on guns, but I can take a wild guess lol.
I've been trying to remember how I was brought up. I don't think my parents were antis -- I don't remember a single word ever said against guns, and we were allowed toy guns as kids. But no pro-gun talk either. As far as I know, they never owned a gun. Don't think it was an anti stance, though. Just no interest in shooting.
My parents were from Massachusettes. Relocated to Virginia when i was a baby (early 1950s). All my living aunts, uncles, and cousins are Massachusettes Democrats. I don't know their position on guns, but I can take a wild guess lol.
Daniel964
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My father grew up around guns. He shot them as a kid growing up but I don't ever remember one being around the house growing up. I'm 45 and over the last 15 years I've become a big believer in guns. My father would always look at what I bought and sometimes shoot them with me but had no interest in buying any. This summer he decided things were getting bad enought to buy a CZ85 spare mags and ammo as well as get his CCW.
My dad was a police officer before I was born. But he left that line of work and I grew up in a house that never had a gun. I didn't have my own until I was in my mid 20's. I'm making up for lost time for me and my dad now though.
FourNineFoxtrot
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I voted "First Generation". My dad may have owned a gun when he was younger, I'm not sure. I know that by the time I was born, both of my parents were convinced that Guns Are Bad and people shouldn't have them. They evinced a sort of baffled contempt for them, or at least for people that actually owned them, and forbade me from owning one while living under their roof.
From a very young age, I had an abiding interest in guns. At 3 years old, I had a set of plastic toy golf clubs. I didn't see golf clubs, I saw toy guns: As soon as I picked one up, I flipped it around, sighted down the shaft, and said "Bang bang". From this point on, my parents indulged my interest by buying me actual toy guns. When I was older, it became knives and bows and BB guns. Almost like I was an addict, and the toys and assorted not-gun weapons were a kind of methadone they could give me to "keep me off guns".
Nearly my first action living by myself was to buy a gun. Circumstances prevent me from knowing what they think about that, but I like to think they would have understood, or at least accepted that.
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't raise a boy against his own personality. To their credit, they didn't try very hard. I could rail against my anti-gun parents, but mostly I'm just glad they gave me the leeway they did. Most people wouldn't, I think.
From a very young age, I had an abiding interest in guns. At 3 years old, I had a set of plastic toy golf clubs. I didn't see golf clubs, I saw toy guns: As soon as I picked one up, I flipped it around, sighted down the shaft, and said "Bang bang". From this point on, my parents indulged my interest by buying me actual toy guns. When I was older, it became knives and bows and BB guns. Almost like I was an addict, and the toys and assorted not-gun weapons were a kind of methadone they could give me to "keep me off guns".
Nearly my first action living by myself was to buy a gun. Circumstances prevent me from knowing what they think about that, but I like to think they would have understood, or at least accepted that.
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't raise a boy against his own personality. To their credit, they didn't try very hard. I could rail against my anti-gun parents, but mostly I'm just glad they gave me the leeway they did. Most people wouldn't, I think.
i voted not first gen, but first serious owner.
way back in the day before i was born my dad bought and sold guns together with a business partner who had some sort of dealers license and a better knowledge base.
my dad was into it more for the money than the guns.
he and his partner almost bought a collection of old yellow boy lever guns which wouldve been worth hundreds of thousands
today, but at the time then the bank wouldnt give them the loan. :banghead:
when i was born my mom made my dad get rid of all his left-over guns
from his business dealings and all his ammo, and she only let him keep his
old marlin .22 which had been a gift to him from his uncle (a marine) for his 14th b-day.
i never knew he had it until i was 14, and i never actually saw it until i was 18.
my mom still doesnt want any ammo for it or other guns under her roof,
but ive been a bad boy and started my own collection without my parents knowledge/approval.
my mom reads too many articles about "accidental" shootings,
and never fails to remind me about a navy seal she read about
who shot himself while cleaning his pistol :banghead:...
her logic: you can hardly be more qualified to handle weapons than a navy
seal, and even the experts can still make mistakes, so what makes me think
i will never shoot myself?
way back in the day before i was born my dad bought and sold guns together with a business partner who had some sort of dealers license and a better knowledge base.
my dad was into it more for the money than the guns.
he and his partner almost bought a collection of old yellow boy lever guns which wouldve been worth hundreds of thousands
today, but at the time then the bank wouldnt give them the loan. :banghead:
when i was born my mom made my dad get rid of all his left-over guns
from his business dealings and all his ammo, and she only let him keep his
old marlin .22 which had been a gift to him from his uncle (a marine) for his 14th b-day.
i never knew he had it until i was 14, and i never actually saw it until i was 18.
my mom still doesnt want any ammo for it or other guns under her roof,
but ive been a bad boy and started my own collection without my parents knowledge/approval.
my mom reads too many articles about "accidental" shootings,
and never fails to remind me about a navy seal she read about
who shot himself while cleaning his pistol :banghead:...
her logic: you can hardly be more qualified to handle weapons than a navy
seal, and even the experts can still make mistakes, so what makes me think
i will never shoot myself?
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