who or what got you into guns?
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I have always liked guns, as a kid even.
Only now I can buy them...
Only now I can buy them...
Piney
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I grew up in the northern mid-west and I just grew up with guns. There were no restrictions and everyone had one and everyone shot them. Our schools would shut down for opening day deer season and we never thought a thing of it. I’ve been shooting and mucking around with guns for over 50 years. I play the game now with all the permits and right to purchase cards, etc. It’s a pain, but I’ll survive. I still shoot at least twice a week.
GigaBuist
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Always had an interest I suppose. I bought one of those M-16 squirt guns when I was like 8 I think -- maybe younger. Dad took me to Rambo III in the theatres when it came out.
Dad didn't shoot much though. Owns a 20 gauge pump action shotgun and that's it. Grandpa tought me how to shoot (actually I'm not sure he taught me much -- just gave me a gun and a target to shoot at. I remember a .410 shotgun, a black powder pistol, and a 22 rifle. Nobody had a 20 gauge in the family that I could shoulder when I was like 9 years old. Arms were too danged small.
Our family quit talking to eachother when I was about 10 and I didn't shoot a firearm until I was 19 again. Just plinking with my old wrestling coach at his house and a bunch of kids. I thought owning an SKS with a 30 round detachable mag was a bit nutty at the time. Guns were always for hunting in our family. If you didn't hunt you didn't have much of a reason for a gun and nobody owned handguns. All guns unloaded, always. Never kept at the ready for SD.
A politically vocal fellow, one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, at my first job got us out to a range one day. After shooting a few handguns and an AK I decided it was time to pony up and join the club. Three years and 16 firearms later I own a whole bunch of politcally incorrect stuff, most of it has seen miltiary duty at some time in history by one country or another. Basically I was worried I'd never be able to own a proper gun if I didn't get off my butt and do it at the age of 21 -- so I did. then I became slightly addicted to the hobby.
Dad didn't shoot much though. Owns a 20 gauge pump action shotgun and that's it. Grandpa tought me how to shoot (actually I'm not sure he taught me much -- just gave me a gun and a target to shoot at. I remember a .410 shotgun, a black powder pistol, and a 22 rifle. Nobody had a 20 gauge in the family that I could shoulder when I was like 9 years old. Arms were too danged small.
Our family quit talking to eachother when I was about 10 and I didn't shoot a firearm until I was 19 again. Just plinking with my old wrestling coach at his house and a bunch of kids. I thought owning an SKS with a 30 round detachable mag was a bit nutty at the time. Guns were always for hunting in our family. If you didn't hunt you didn't have much of a reason for a gun and nobody owned handguns. All guns unloaded, always. Never kept at the ready for SD.
A politically vocal fellow, one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, at my first job got us out to a range one day. After shooting a few handguns and an AK I decided it was time to pony up and join the club. Three years and 16 firearms later I own a whole bunch of politcally incorrect stuff, most of it has seen miltiary duty at some time in history by one country or another. Basically I was worried I'd never be able to own a proper gun if I didn't get off my butt and do it at the age of 21 -- so I did. then I became slightly addicted to the hobby.
Sam Adams
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Wolfie
I'd have told the PRNJ to stuff it, and posted 24-hour armed guards.
I'd have told the PRNJ to stuff it, and posted 24-hour armed guards.
manwithoutahome
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Honestly. I was "into guns" since I grew up with them and had them in the house (my fathers guns).
I was happy with a few, wasn't planning of becoming a "gun nut".
Then the anti's really started, and that's what made me really get into guns.
So I will say, my father and the anti's.
Wayne
I was happy with a few, wasn't planning of becoming a "gun nut".
Then the anti's really started, and that's what made me really get into guns.
So I will say, my father and the anti's.
Wayne
stevelyn
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I must have been genetically predisposed to be a gun nut. I've liked them ever since I can remember. I grew up in WV and guns were household appliances that everybody owned a bunch of. Started shooting at 6 or 7 off and on. Didn't really get into hunting until I was a teenager although I was always exposed to it from an early age. I became interested in the "gun issue" sometime during my high school years when I realized there was a political war being waged against gun owners. The next few years were spent in the military and due to deployments, moves, overseas assignments and work schedules my participation in shooting was limited pretty much to semi-annual qualifications and an occassional hunting trip I could sneak into my leave time. It was after I got out of the Army about the time the Klintoon regime began that I became really active both as a shooter and gun rights supporter.
myopicmouse
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My Pappy got me into the army/R.A.F as a child so guns naturally followed.
WalkerTexasRanger
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My Granddad. He was a PT boat captain in the Pacific during WWII. He taught me, and all my cousins, about firearms including safety and respect.
He would not hunt as he told me that he had seen enough killing to last many lifetimes, and I will pass down his feelings, however he did love to shoot.
He also told me, NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!! It was one of the last things the German citizens did before Hitler started killing them. He felt he would never have had to go to war if the Germans would have been able to defend themselves from their government.
They teach us in school we should learn from History, how poinient.
Good shooting!!!!!
He would not hunt as he told me that he had seen enough killing to last many lifetimes, and I will pass down his feelings, however he did love to shoot.
He also told me, NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS!! It was one of the last things the German citizens did before Hitler started killing them. He felt he would never have had to go to war if the Germans would have been able to defend themselves from their government.
They teach us in school we should learn from History, how poinient.
Good shooting!!!!!
autumn_faune
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growing up, my family was gun-neutral, but a lot of boys and their fathers in my homeschool group were hunters, as well as my father's boss. I developed a bit of a taste for game meat and decided I'd really like it if my husband were a hunter (if/when I met him).
Lo and behold, I met trapperjohn and he took me duck and dove hunting with him. I didn't do the shooting- I did the cooking but a combination of that with being stalked at the time and having been raped- "never again." I got into guns with him from several aspects.
Now, we are both gun nuts
growing up, my family was gun-neutral, but a lot of boys and their fathers in my homeschool group were hunters, as well as my father's boss. I developed a bit of a taste for game meat and decided I'd really like it if my husband were a hunter (if/when I met him).
Lo and behold, I met trapperjohn and he took me duck and dove hunting with him. I didn't do the shooting- I did the cooking
but a combination of that with being stalked at the time and having been raped- "never again." I got into guns with him from several aspects.Now, we are both gun nuts
My Dad had guns when i was small - he taught me the rules and was there to laugh at me the first time i fired a 12ga.
Always wanted one of my own - but joined the delayed entry program at 17 and two weeks after i graduated i was in the Navy.
In the navy if you had a firearm it had to be stored in the armoury (if you lived on base) and i never saw a use for that so waited till i was out of the military to buy my 1st...
I've since gotten rid of that POS, but up to many handguns/rifles current. Its amazing to me that anyone would lilke me to NOT have my guns.
J/Tharg!
Always wanted one of my own - but joined the delayed entry program at 17 and two weeks after i graduated i was in the Navy.
In the navy if you had a firearm it had to be stored in the armoury (if you lived on base) and i never saw a use for that so waited till i was out of the military to buy my 1st...
I've since gotten rid of that POS, but up to many handguns/rifles current. Its amazing to me that anyone would lilke me to NOT have my guns.
J/Tharg!
fastbolt
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My father ... when I was about 5 ...
Gus Dddysgrl
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Daddy did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then I got my husband into it. He really likes the 22 I bought him as a wedding gift. I like it too.
Gus
Then I got my husband into it. He really likes the 22 I bought him as a wedding gift. I like it too.
Gus
Black Majik
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Playing Cops and robbers as a kid.
Got my first gun rag in 7th grade. Dad was not too happy about that.
My gun hobby stopped when I saw the look on his face when I received my first subscription to shooting times.
Gun hobby picked back up when two of my friends dragged me to the shooting range few days before my 21st birthday. I got a Colt Government as a 21st birthday present to myself.
Got my first gun rag in 7th grade. Dad was not too happy about that.
My gun hobby stopped when I saw the look on his face when I received my first subscription to shooting times.
Gun hobby picked back up when two of my friends dragged me to the shooting range few days before my 21st birthday. I got a Colt Government as a 21st birthday present to myself.
reagansquad
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living in the ghetto with a glass front door.
Old Dog
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Cowboy movies and Grandpa
Grew up in the sixties watching the great B & W cowboy shows and Lone Ranger and some of the other movies on Saturdays ... The Colt SAA was the first gun I lusted after (before I even entered grade school)
... Mom's dad was a serious deer hunter who introduced us to rifles. Back then, we could hunt pheasant in a field next to our house (SE Michigan).
... Many years down the road, the military sent me to cop school and introduced me to Mr. Colt ... the 1911A1 and me: love at first sight ...
Grew up in the sixties watching the great B & W cowboy shows and Lone Ranger and some of the other movies on Saturdays ... The Colt SAA was the first gun I lusted after (before I even entered grade school)
... Mom's dad was a serious deer hunter who introduced us to rifles. Back then, we could hunt pheasant in a field next to our house (SE Michigan).
... Many years down the road, the military sent me to cop school and introduced me to Mr. Colt ... the 1911A1 and me: love at first sight ...
RocketMan
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Some years ago a friend and coworker told me about some M1 Garands for sale by a kitchen table FFL aquaintance of his.
I had confused the M1 Garand with the M1 Carbine; always thought the carbine was cool and kind of half wanted one.
I went with him to see the Garands, money in hand, and was initially disappointed that the Garand wasn't the carbine. But I fell in love with the Garand that night, and it went home with me. It was my first firearm purchase.
Now I have a carbine, too. It was my second purchase.
I had confused the M1 Garand with the M1 Carbine; always thought the carbine was cool and kind of half wanted one.
I went with him to see the Garands, money in hand, and was initially disappointed that the Garand wasn't the carbine. But I fell in love with the Garand that night, and it went home with me. It was my first firearm purchase.
Now I have a carbine, too. It was my second purchase.
hjaeger
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HK. HK. HK. Rheinmetall.
CAPTAIN MIKE
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I Learned to Shoot in the BOY SCOUTS
One summer while attending Boy Scout summer camp at Mataguay Scout Reservation in eastern San Diego County, I was introduced to archery and shooting, and came to enjoy them both very much.
Later, a school teacher cousin in rural Oklahoma introduced my younger brother and I to hunting, and from there it just became a natural part of life. I often take my young son with me to an outdoor range near where we live, to shoot his BB-gun and his small-fry .22. He gets the 'full safety briefing' everytime, and we go over the basic firearm safety rules every time so that it becomes second nature to him at a young age.
I think we who support firearms ownership and use should volunteer our time to youth organizations such as the Scouts, to encourage kids to learn safe firearm habits and to introduce them to the ENJOYMENT of archery and firearms.
One summer while attending Boy Scout summer camp at Mataguay Scout Reservation in eastern San Diego County, I was introduced to archery and shooting, and came to enjoy them both very much.
Later, a school teacher cousin in rural Oklahoma introduced my younger brother and I to hunting, and from there it just became a natural part of life. I often take my young son with me to an outdoor range near where we live, to shoot his BB-gun and his small-fry .22. He gets the 'full safety briefing' everytime, and we go over the basic firearm safety rules every time so that it becomes second nature to him at a young age.
I think we who support firearms ownership and use should volunteer our time to youth organizations such as the Scouts, to encourage kids to learn safe firearm habits and to introduce them to the ENJOYMENT of archery and firearms.
CAPTAIN MIKE
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I Learned to Shoot in the BOY SCOUTS
One summer while attending Boy Scout summer camp at Mataguay Scout Reservation in eastern San Diego County, I was introduced to archery and shooting, and came to enjoy them both very much.
Later, a school teacher cousin in rural Oklahoma introduced my younger brother and I to hunting, and from there it just became a natural part of life. I often take my young son with me to an outdoor range near where we live, to shoot his BB-gun and his small-fry .22. He gets the 'full safety briefing' everytime, and we go over the basic firearm safety rules every time so that it becomes second nature to him at a young age.
I think we who support firearms ownership and use should volunteer our time to youth organizations such as the Scouts, to encourage kids to learn safe firearm habits and to introduce them to the ENJOYMENT of archery and firearms.
One summer while attending Boy Scout summer camp at Mataguay Scout Reservation in eastern San Diego County, I was introduced to archery and shooting, and came to enjoy them both very much.
Later, a school teacher cousin in rural Oklahoma introduced my younger brother and I to hunting, and from there it just became a natural part of life. I often take my young son with me to an outdoor range near where we live, to shoot his BB-gun and his small-fry .22. He gets the 'full safety briefing' everytime, and we go over the basic firearm safety rules every time so that it becomes second nature to him at a young age.
I think we who support firearms ownership and use should volunteer our time to youth organizations such as the Scouts, to encourage kids to learn safe firearm habits and to introduce them to the ENJOYMENT of archery and firearms.
CAPTAIN MIKE
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I Learned to Shoot in the BOY SCOUTS
One summer at Boy Scout Summer Camp at Mataguay Scout Reservation in the mountains east of San Diego, I participated in archery and .22 shooting for merit badge activities, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Later as a teenager, my schoolteacher cousin in rural Oklahoma taught my younger brother and I about hunting, and we were hooked.
I think more of us who support shooting and firearms ownership would do well to volunteer some TIME to help youth organizations such as the BOY SCOUTS and the GIRL SCOUTS learn Firearms Safety and Firearms Enjoyment.
Very Respectfully,
One summer at Boy Scout Summer Camp at Mataguay Scout Reservation in the mountains east of San Diego, I participated in archery and .22 shooting for merit badge activities, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Later as a teenager, my schoolteacher cousin in rural Oklahoma taught my younger brother and I about hunting, and we were hooked.
I think more of us who support shooting and firearms ownership would do well to volunteer some TIME to help youth organizations such as the BOY SCOUTS and the GIRL SCOUTS learn Firearms Safety and Firearms Enjoyment.
Very Respectfully,
Spieler
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British MP on the Berlin duty train when I was 7 showed me his issue Browning HP and I was fascinated. That same summer my cousin took me shooting with his single shot .22 rifle on some family property in upstate NY. There was no turning back after that summer.
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