Your Age?

[Ronnies111]

Don't think I've ever seen this post? How old are you & when did you receive or purchased your first firearm?
Me...53 of last July.
Me...Received a 410 @ age 6 from my father. Almost 6
We lived in farm country in Marianna, & Dellwood,Florida
Can you imagine how the public would react today?
My cousin & I were hunting squirrel's & rabbit after 3 years of hunting with one of our father's. Which put's us @ 9 year's old. We followed the safety our father's has taught & made us repeat (verbially) about every day. We are still alive & to date have not killed anyone, that didn't deserve it...lol

[IronButt]

Age 61. Bought my first gun, a Mossberg 20 ga bolt action at age 10 from my uncle. We were surrounded by farms & I kept the family supplied with pheasant, rabbits & quail all Fall/Winter.

First rifle was a new Mossberg 22 that I bought with money from my paper route about a year later, followed closely by a used Win. Model 74. I don't think I paid over $30 for any of the above guns.

First pistol was a new S&W 38 Spl I bought when I was in the service. That cost me $66, if I remember correctly.

Times change!

[cgbudde]

51, Brought my first 22 rifle, Sears, can't remember what model but it was a bolt action. Shot my first handgun when I was 5. We were at the vacation home in vermont, and my father let me and my brothers shoot his 22 high standard revolver, and his gvt model 45. Boy was i hooked.

[RoyJackson]

59 here (soon to be 60)
.22 single shot bolt action rifle when I was between 10 and 12. I don't recall the brand of the rifle, but it was pretty old when given to me.

[1861]

63 here , my Father gave me my 1st gun , a Steven/Savage 22 cal. single shot , in 1954 for Christmas .

[87th PVI]

41
technically inherited grandpa's shotguns when he passed...I was 6 or 7.
took posession of them when I was about 18.
bought first gun at age 21... Browning Buckmark .22LR

[jahwarrior72]

i'm 37 now. i bought my first handgun when i was 16, from a biker i worked with in the Bronx. i think it was a Raven .25ACP. i practiced by shooting pigeons and beer bottles on the roof of an abandoned building.

i bought my first legal handgun when i was about 33; it was a S&W SW9VE, from Gander Mountain in Dickson City. i had owned a few before then, and had custody of my brother's, but it was my first real gunshop purchase. my first shotgun was bought from a local shop two years later.

[Ronnies111]

Age 61. Bought my first gun, a Mossberg 20 ga bolt action at age 10 from my uncle. We were surrounded by farms & I kept the family supplied with pheasant, rabbits & quail all Fall/Winter.

First rifle was a new Mossberg 22 that I bought with money from my paper route about a year later, followed closely by a used Win. Model 74. I don't think I paid over $30 for any of the above guns.

First pistol was a new S&W 38 Spl I bought when I was in the service. That cost me $66, if I remember correctly.

Times change!

That's nice when you can remember & lived when the country (USA) was a really nice & safer place to live & enjoy, It's a whole different place to be today & as every day goes by it continue's to deteriorate from within. Some of our leader's has a whole different country in mind? What was his name???

[jcabin]

Pulled my first trigger on a shotgun at age 6( a year after I moved here from NYC)in BELIEVE IT OR NOT: A 1ST GRADE FIELD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!! We shot at clays. Oh how times have changed!!!!!!!

Then in the scouts I fired shotguns and .22's for years.

Age 22 bought my first handgun, a SA XD9 Service model.
Reason: I was tired of watching the news and seeing the scum move into my area, and chose to defend myself and not become a victim. I realized my fists would no longer suffice, and acquaintances of mine had been mugged at gun and knife point many times during the months leading up to my purchase.

[Vismund Cygnus]

I'm 19. Got my first gun when I was 17, a 1941 JP Sauer K98. First gun I ever purchased myself was a MAS 49/56 about a month after I turned 18.