Was curious as to how many others grew up in anti gun families. I was never really around firearms growing up except for going shooting once before I joined the Army about 5 years ago Im 22 now and wil be 23 in just a few months. all my firearms experience began just 5 years ago and am curious how many others are in the same boat.
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Same here my folks didnt like anything that resembled a firearm. I was however allowed to have waterguns. When I was in my teens I got in to paintball and that was a huge feat for me as they hated it but dealt with it cause it motivated me to work so I could pay for my hobby. If it wasnt for that I think they would have been like hell no.
Treo
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My mother was on the Benson High School (Omaha) Rifle team.
Family history is that one of her freinds was shot by a hunter who was climbing a fence W/ a shot gun.( in one version the hunter was my grandfather) Mom witnessed the event. aparrently became an anti on the spot.
Family history is that one of her freinds was shot by a hunter who was climbing a fence W/ a shot gun.( in one version the hunter was my grandfather) Mom witnessed the event. aparrently became an anti on the spot.
Husker1911
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Not anti, by any means, but my older brother was playing with friends with toy bows and arrows. They'd pulled off the rubber suction tips, and Steve was struck when a friend's arrow glanced off a metal drum they were shooting at. He lost his left eye.
I was five or so when this occurred. Mom, being the good mother she was, vowed "never again." Neither me nor my younger brother were allowed BB guns or other projectile toys/weapons, as children.
Still, when I was 16, Dad took me downtown and purchased my first shotgun. Living in east central Nebraska as we did, pheasant, quail, duck, and goose hunting was in our life's blood. Mom wasn't anti, she simply wouldn't allow another accident to a child of hers.
I was five or so when this occurred. Mom, being the good mother she was, vowed "never again." Neither me nor my younger brother were allowed BB guns or other projectile toys/weapons, as children.
Still, when I was 16, Dad took me downtown and purchased my first shotgun. Living in east central Nebraska as we did, pheasant, quail, duck, and goose hunting was in our life's blood. Mom wasn't anti, she simply wouldn't allow another accident to a child of hers.
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My father was ambivalent towards guns, after being in the Army in WWII. While in action in Germany, he was wounded, captured, and had to have his leg amputated. Not exactly the greatest of memories to have. Before the war, he used to hunt rabbits with a .22 rifle, to put meat on the table during the Depression. And he was a decent rifleman, shooting Marksman on the qualification course in the Army. So not anti-gun, just that they no longer held any interest for him (he never owned one), after the war. My mom was the anti-gunner; toy guns and water pistols were okay, but anything else was forbidden. I think it was more about our own safety than anything else. Of course this didn't keep me and my brother's from having any BB guns; we were quite resourceful in that regard; we just didn't let mom knowabout them. Eventually as we got older, we started to buy firearms and keep them hidden throughout the house. By then my mom didn't seem to be as concerned, as we had actually become very responsible adults, in spite of ourselves. So having non-gun parents didn't deter us one bit from having a lifelong interest in firearms.
Bubbles
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My parents were neither pro nor anti. We didn't have guns in the house when I was growing up, and we didn't get the "guns are bad" indoctrination either. I purchased my first gun after taking a safety class when I was 25 years old. The rest, as they say, is history.
FWIW I later taught my mom to shoot.
FWIW I later taught my mom to shoot.
Deanimator
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My mother used to be fanatically anti-gun... until she got hit upside the head and her purse taken. Too bad she lived in Chicago and couldn't have a gun. She recently moved to the suburbs and could own a gun now if she wanted to. Now she's only anti-gun. Ironically, she lives just around the corner from the Lane Bryant store where five women were murdered execution style recently. No CCW in Illinois, so they were just expected to die submissively.
My father had apparently had a gun at some point, since there were some very old .22 Shorts in his dresser drawer when I was a kid. As a young man he had carried a 12ga. sawed off shotgun as protection from the Klan when he drove from TVA camp to TVA camp working the various projects. Lynching isn't NEARLY as much fun apparently if you don't know who's going to be dead when the party's over. But then Klansmen are cowardice personified.
Ironically, it was my mother who got me interested in guns, by pointing out a gun on "The Man from UNCLE". My grandmother, who always enjoyed stirring things up, started buying me gun magazines every month. I got my first copy of "Smallarms of the World" between 7th and 8th grades. I got my first gun, a Commission 88, when I was in college. I got my first handgun when I was in college.
I just got my Ohio concealed carry license. My mother was really against it. I simply told her that since I have a years' long history of documented death threats from neo-Nazis, if she wasn't going to follow me around 24/7 as my bodyguard, she didn't get a vote. End of discussion.
My father had apparently had a gun at some point, since there were some very old .22 Shorts in his dresser drawer when I was a kid. As a young man he had carried a 12ga. sawed off shotgun as protection from the Klan when he drove from TVA camp to TVA camp working the various projects. Lynching isn't NEARLY as much fun apparently if you don't know who's going to be dead when the party's over. But then Klansmen are cowardice personified.
Ironically, it was my mother who got me interested in guns, by pointing out a gun on "The Man from UNCLE". My grandmother, who always enjoyed stirring things up, started buying me gun magazines every month. I got my first copy of "Smallarms of the World" between 7th and 8th grades. I got my first gun, a Commission 88, when I was in college. I got my first handgun when I was in college.
I just got my Ohio concealed carry license. My mother was really against it. I simply told her that since I have a years' long history of documented death threats from neo-Nazis, if she wasn't going to follow me around 24/7 as my bodyguard, she didn't get a vote. End of discussion.
Dad is Army but never owned a firearm. Mom doesn't like guns.
I bought my first 2 rifles while living in their home. They weren't so hateful against guns after I bought them but my mom still asked "why do you need guns?" in a disappointed tone.
I never saw a real gun while around my family. I guess you could say it was the video games that made me do it
I loved using the AK in Counter-Strike and the Mosin Nagant in Call of Duty so now I own them. I love shooting now and collecting guns is my hobby now. My Dad still asks me "why do you like guns so much? you weren't brought up with guns around." Idk. I just do.
I'm 20.
I bought my first 2 rifles while living in their home. They weren't so hateful against guns after I bought them but my mom still asked "why do you need guns?" in a disappointed tone.
I never saw a real gun while around my family. I guess you could say it was the video games that made me do it
I loved using the AK in Counter-Strike and the Mosin Nagant in Call of Duty so now I own them. I love shooting now and collecting guns is my hobby now. My Dad still asks me "why do you like guns so much? you weren't brought up with guns around." Idk. I just do.I'm 20.
Seems to have that reaction from my grandparents every time. My mom, used to be fanatically so, I thought I had made a little bit of progress about a year ago but no joy, wasn't really progress at all. Although she doesn't cringe in horror anymore like the time between Basic and AIT when she walked into my brother's room, where I was cleaning my S&W 28-2, she looked like she had walked in on me eating a baby.
Some of these posts are just plain sad.
My family isn't really anti-gun, just anti-guns-as-a-hobby. At least my Mom is. For instance, my Dad got his CCW back in '98 or '99, but didn't start carrying until this summer, when I convinced him to. My Mom wants there to be guns in the house, for protection and use against varmints, but any time I mention saving up for another gun or when I go out target practicing more than once a week, she says "why? You don't need another gun!" (I have a rifle, shotgun, and two revolvers right now) or "You're going out again?! You spend way to much time with those guns." I do love my parents, but I will be glad when I have a home and family of my own and don't have to answer to my parents for all of my decisions.
I'm 20 too.
~Dale
My family isn't really anti-gun, just anti-guns-as-a-hobby.
At least my Mom is. For instance, my Dad got his CCW back in '98 or '99, but didn't start carrying until this summer, when I convinced him to. My Mom wants there to be guns in the house, for protection and use against varmints, but any time I mention saving up for another gun or when I go out target practicing more than once a week, she says "why? You don't need another gun!" (I have a rifle, shotgun, and two revolvers right now) or "You're going out again?! You spend way to much time with those guns." I do love my parents, but I will be glad when I have a home and family of my own and don't have to answer to my parents for all of my decisions.I'm 20 too.
~Dale
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growing up in the logging camps of Wash State, my dad and grandpa always had guns fo hunting, mainly to put food on the table as many did. From the time i was old enough to hold one, i had a .22 and then a 30-30 and shotgun. One funny time my dad, who was a crack shot, shot at a rabbit from several yards, we both knew something was wrong after about ten shots and that rabbit just sat there. Best i remember it was about 10-15 degrees that day and turned out on inspection of that "damn rabbit", it was frozen solid and the .22s had merely glanced off it! Took a lotta years for old "dead eye" to live that one down!
growing up in the logging camps of Wash State, my dad and grandpa always had guns fo hunting, mainly to put food on the table as many did. From the time i was old enough to hold one, i had a .22 and then a 30-30 and shotgun. One funny time my dad, who was a crack shot, shot at a rabbit from several yards, we both knew something was wrong after about ten shots and that rabbit just sat there. Best i remember it was about 10-15 degrees that day and turned out on inspection of that "damn rabbit", it was frozen solid and the .22s had merely glanced off it! Took a lotta years for old "dead eye" to live that one down!
Yeah. I got an apartment so she won't see my guns again. I think I started to change her mind though. She would say things like "guns kill people" and I'd remind her that people kill people, not guns. I think she is still uneasy about the fact that I own firearms but she'll have to live with that.
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My mother rocked me to sleep at night while I held my red-rider BB gun. I'd cry if she tried to take it away from me.
I am so happy my family was never Anti.
I am so happy my family was never Anti.
Ghost Walker
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Unlike his brothers, my famous educator of a father - to the best of my knowledge - never so much as touched a gun in his entire life. My mother was absolutely terrified of all firearms, and for most of her life wouldn't allow one in the house. (Don't remember her ever touching one either!)
Her mother didn't feel the same way; and, my maternal grandmother is the one who bought me my first 22 rifle - Which I had to keep hidden in the floor beams of our dark and rustic basement while I was growing up.
Her mother didn't feel the same way; and, my maternal grandmother is the one who bought me my first 22 rifle - Which I had to keep hidden in the floor beams of our dark and rustic basement while I was growing up.
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My family wasn't ant-gun at all. Dad had a hunting rifle and, maybe, a shotgun. But they were mainly props he used as an excuse to go for a walk in the woods instead of work on some sort of project or household chore. Mom simply had no interest.
My DH's family though, ...
My DMIL used to keep a loaded .22 lying on the deck rail when eating at the outdoor table on warm summer nights (no AC). At first it was a bit disconcerting to see her suddenly put down her fork, stand up, and take a shot at a groundhog in her garden, but I got used to it pretty quickly since no one ever even paused in the dinner conversation except to praise her marksmanship.
My DH's family though, ...
My DMIL used to keep a loaded .22 lying on the deck rail when eating at the outdoor table on warm summer nights (no AC). At first it was a bit disconcerting to see her suddenly put down her fork, stand up, and take a shot at a groundhog in her garden, but I got used to it pretty quickly since no one ever even paused in the dinner conversation except to praise her marksmanship.
My family is a mixed bag... My grandmother and mother don't care anything about guns. My dad, former EMT, saw too many gunshot wounds to have any interest in them; he'll use them for tools if he has to, but its rare.
Now my grandfather used to collect them when he was younger, he's gotten out of it, but he got me started. Now, if only I can get my little sister to shooting.
Now my grandfather used to collect them when he was younger, he's gotten out of it, but he got me started. Now, if only I can get my little sister to shooting.
graygun
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My old man wasn't there after I was eight (thank God) and my mother was sort of indifferent. She did buy guns (cheap stuff as Christmas presents,twice) for my older brother when he was in his teens. She didn't get one for me but I shot my brother's stuff and a friend's shot gun.
chupacabrah
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i didn't get my first bb gun until i was 20. never went shooting until i went with a guy here at work this past year (aside from shooting my brother's glock a few years ago).
My parents don't care that i have guns, they even let me shoot out behind their house. they just don't like them too much, and didnt want me around them when growing up i guess.... I think that's the wrong way to go, I'll be introducing my kids to guns when they're of adequate age.
My parents don't care that i have guns, they even let me shoot out behind their house. they just don't like them too much, and didnt want me around them when growing up i guess.... I think that's the wrong way to go, I'll be introducing my kids to guns when they're of adequate age.
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My Dad taught me to shoot with a Webley Falcon air rifle when I was about 12, some 32 years ago now.
Yoda
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I wish I had become a gun nut earlier...
My father had a .45 somewhere, and we all knew it, and there was a 28 guage dove gun in the closet, but that was aboput it until I hit 7th grade, and he put me in an NRA class... and I did pretty good there.
However, when I was dating my practice wife, her father would frequently get drunk and threaten her with a .45. "You killed the only one who ever meant anything to me!" My practice wife, at 17, was driving the car in which her mother was killed and she was almost crippled for life. Anyway, after we got married, there was no question of having a gun in the house.... and so it was for 22 years.
However, after that marriage collapsed, I got the bug. By that time, however, my youngest son was out of control, and I will forever be grateful that I got a safe before I ever brought a gun into the house. I now have two safes full of guns plus a few more guns that won't fit.
I've also got a new wife, and she carries a J-frame. Her father has a .410 to deal with critters, and he asked to borrow one of my .45 revolvers due to increasing wierdness in his rural area, and her uncle carries a Taraus 4410 to deal with armadillos.
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My father had a .45 somewhere, and we all knew it, and there was a 28 guage dove gun in the closet, but that was aboput it until I hit 7th grade, and he put me in an NRA class... and I did pretty good there.
However, when I was dating my practice wife, her father would frequently get drunk and threaten her with a .45. "You killed the only one who ever meant anything to me!" My practice wife, at 17, was driving the car in which her mother was killed and she was almost crippled for life. Anyway, after we got married, there was no question of having a gun in the house.... and so it was for 22 years.
However, after that marriage collapsed, I got the bug. By that time, however, my youngest son was out of control, and I will forever be grateful that I got a safe before I ever brought a gun into the house. I now have two safes full of guns plus a few more guns that won't fit.
I've also got a new wife, and she carries a J-frame. Her father has a .410 to deal with critters, and he asked to borrow one of my .45 revolvers due to increasing wierdness in his rural area, and her uncle carries a Taraus 4410 to deal with armadillos.
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M14/11B
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My Dad was career Army and used to bring home a .45 at night when he was OD. I got to dry fire it a few times when I was about seven...what a thrill! My Brother had BB guns all the time and I used them when he wasn't looking. He was a lot older. Bought my first gun at 16.
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