I never really gave this much thought before. I'll tell you what my Thanksgiving was like, though......I drove to my parent's house (two hours away) for the Thanksgiving festivities as my grandfather was in town from Indiana. After we were done eating and taking pictures, talking guns, and showing each other various handguns, we headed for the range. It was my wife, father, mother, grandfather, and I shooting it up in two lanes at the local indoor range. My dad let my wife shoot his S&W 5906, as we were looking for a handgun that she'd like to own. I let my mom and dad shoot my Ruger MKII with 5.5" bull barrel.
I grew up around guns with my first Daisey "Champion 99" rifle being given to me around the age of 7 or 8. My father was into pheasant hunting when we lived in Indiana, but he wasn't really all that big into handguns (mainly 22 plinkers and a shotgun for hunting). I fell in love with handguns and assault weapons, and when I got old enough, I started collecting them.
My mother wasn't a shooter, but in the past couple of years, she's taken some "outdoor women" weekend courses at Clemson University where she's gotten to ride ATVs, shoot rifles and handguns, fish, shoot with bow and arrows, hike, horseback ride, and other outdoors stuff. It was here that she actually found out she liked shooting.
My wife's father taught her how to shoot with a 243 and got a 410 shotgun as a present when she was younger, but really didn't have much experience with handguns. I took her with me to the range when she was eight months pregnant and we didn't think she should be on the back of a motorcycle until the kid showed up. She really liked the range, and handguns, and we have since picked up a little Ruger 10/22 and a S&W 5903, since she liked my father's S&W. She might have another gun or several in her future, too. I see "his" and "hers" gun safes, soon.
As for my grandfather....he just describes himself as a "dumb ole hillbilly" from Kentucky. I used to go groundhog hunting with him back when I was just a little thing. He always carried a 38, and was an avid gun owner. His brother once had over 300 firearms, and I have an uncle that once had over 500.
We don't really discuss guns or do family oriented firearms activities, like that of Thanksgiving, but we all seem to like our ownership rights......looks like I'm rambling......for the most part, I do my own thing with the firearms, but I'm supported by my family. I had a "time" with my folks when I showed them my first AR-15, but once they realized it was a semi-auto LEGAL firearm, they've settled down. I need to let them shoot it sometime. It's a fun gun.