Oldest I own: Lee Enfield No4 Mk1. Dated 1943. I put it on layaway a few months back, picked it up for my birthday last month. I bought it for a number of reasons. I love history, I love military history, I love WWII in particular, and, on the more practical side, I can hunt with it. It's my only real rifle, and right now I wouldn't trade it.
Oldest in the Family: My dad's Franz Stock 7,65 pistol. He bought it as part of a package deal from our LGS because it was sitting on the shelf for too long. At least six months that I know of. We can barely find any information on it, other than it was made between the 1920s to the late 1930s. From there, my meager research shows the Company that manufactured it in Germany was given to Mauser, prior to the onset of WWII. How it came to America, let alone a little gun store in a little country town in Texas is beyond me. We found some reproduction grips in fake pearl, and my dad put them on, keeping the original, cracked, Bakelite grips stashed somewhere safe. It's since become his favorite bedside gun, and frankly, I'm a bit jealous. It's a very nice pistol. I'm looking for one for myself in either .25, or in .32 like his. Figure it'd make a nice addition and make a nice desk gun for me.