How many were raised to be anti-gun?

[Larry Ashcraft]

I don't think there ever was a anti-gun Ashcraft, except maybe my sister who has lived in NY for 30 years.

I'm probably a generation older than most of you, but my great-grandfather came to Colorado about 1900 from Kentucky. Guns were a necessary tool to put food on the table. In the 1940's, my dad was expected to put meat on the table and not waste any ammunition doing it. He's 75 now and still loves to hunt.

Dad doesn't have much use for handguns, but has no problem with 2 sons that are certifiable "gun nuts" and a 3rd who owns them just to hunt.

 

[Mastrogiacomo]

I was very anti gun as a teenager but I had toy guns growing up. My parents never said anything one way or the other. I became interested in the real deal after exploring career options and found myself very attracted to them again. Once I shot one -- very scary -- but I fell hard for them. Now I can't wait to add to my collection when I get working.

 

[casual]

no guns in home growing up, but conservative environment and lots of toy guns - no real talk about RTKBA

no way my mother would give bb guns to her 5 little criminals

I owe my respect for the 2nd Amendment to a guy I knew in college who first told me that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to guard against the tyranny of the state (Federalist No. 46) - and he was a pretty liberal dude

Amazingly, I had never thought of it before

unfortunately, I got married prior to that and it was a long hard road converting my wife (also very conservative, but anti-gun)

The lovely lady is coming along these days though.

 

[Kinsman]

Folks were heavy antis. We were not allowed to have even toy guns even though both Mom and Dad learned to shoot as kids. These daze, Dad is ambivalent, Mom is hard-core against. My boys are both learning to be safe and to guard their liberty.

 

[dev_null]

Wasn't sure which one to pick... For years as a kid I wasn't allowed to have toy guns. I was always jealous of other kids who owned stuff like the Fanner Fifty, and spent many a November circling capgun sets in the Sears catalog. OTOH, I was allowed to own a Daisy BB gun when I got older, and to go shooting with a friend who owned a .22. Guess the folks loosened up a bit over the years.

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[Jrob24]

My parents seldom talked about gun control. My mom is somewhat anti, my dad is nuetral. I was allowed to play with toy guns and was given a BB gun as a gift. I remember throwing a tantrum when the Brady law passed, though at the time I was too young to understand it. Just learning that there were people who wanted to ban guns upset me.

 

[Nightfall]

Well, I didn't really develop an interest in firearms until... well, I guess I always liked guns. I didn't get a genuine interest into the real thing until I was about 12. I still remember it. In 5th grade, we had to cut up some magazines and make a collage for some reason. Well, the teacher had some gun and hunting magazines, and I ended up spending more time staring at pictures of high power revolvers with scopes (and drawing them) then actually doing the schoolwork. My interest continued non-stop since then, and I wouldn't change a thing. Obviously.

As to my parents, I got to play with toy guns as a child, and there wasn't really any anti-gun sentiments in the house. My father isn't a shooter, but he seems to enjoy it a bit when he has to qual at the range and such. My mother on the other hand seems to be leaning increasingly in the anti-gun direction. It took a couple years of badgering both of them to get my first firearm though. I had a choice between a Sig Sauer P226 and a Remington 870 Express Magnum in 20 gauge. I figured the 20 gauge was probably a better starting point, but I do kinda wish I had gotten that 226 from time to time. Then again, it's probably going to be my first handgun purchase when I hit 21, so no loss.

BTW... found this pic of me and my father as a kid... wouldn't some of the gun grabbers LOVE to see this. Would you look at that, fingers off the trigger, even at that age! Instinctive, I tells ya!

http://www.angelfire.com/va3/nightfall0/index.html

 

[mushoot]

My Dad was in the infantry in WWII. He does not like guns, I guess he has his reasons. I always had toy ones. When I was away at college I mentioned I had one and he told me never to bring it around his house. End of discussion. I have many now and enjoy shooting and reloading. I never talk about it around him and he never asks.

 

[Standing Wolf]

My parents started out as Eisenhower Republicans, but drifted leftward—far leftward—with age. My mother became a teacher, joined a union, and adhered to union so-called "principles." They meant well, but weren't in real close touch with reality.

Of their three children, one's a heavily armed ultra-conservative; one's an Objectivist, and one's... Well, two out of three isn't half-bad, eh?

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My father had only one pistol, the 1903 Colt Pocket Auto that I now have. He showed it to us at an early age to teach us gun safety. My first gun was a bolt-action .22 when I turned 12. I still have that gun, and I can still shoot damn near MOA with it. Actually the M1 carbine BB gun and the Sheridan 5mm pellet rifle followed the true firearm, but as you can see, my folks were fairly trusting of my good sense. I never let them down, either.

 

[JohnBT]

I voted in the pro-gun category, but we weren't so much actively what's now thought of as pro-gun as we were a bunch of gun owners. All the male relatives, and all the neighbors too, had one or more guns and so did some of the women. Well, all except one cousin.

We carried pocket knives, owned hammers and saws and shovels and axes, had a set of chains in the car trunk and thought that 'Be Prepared' was just plain obvious.

John

 

[TekChef]

pro-gun...very much so.

My stepfather was active duty in the military until I was about 14. He put a firearm in my hands and taught me about responsiblity, and how that we are the defenders of the US if the military was not present, RKBA, etc

He is VERY pro constitution, and very pro gun.

My mother does not really care...I have got her to fire my .22 pistol once or twice. She knows how to use a firearm...I don't think she would hesisitate to defend herself with one, or any weapon she could get her hands on. She said she was raped when she was young..and she's not going to let it happen again without a fight.

 

[DadOfThree]

Grew up on a central Indiana farm. 'nuff said!

 

[4Truck]

From the time I was old enough to hold a rifle, I was shooting.

My parents were, and still are both pro-gun, as was the rest of my family.

For me shooting was a staple of my youth, I hunted with my father and grandfather, as did the rest of my family and I really think it brought us together. To this day my father is my best hunting partner, and we shoot regularly. My grandfather has now passed, but I will always cherish the times we spent hunting, and I plan to pass those values on to my children.

 

[CZ-75]

Grew up on a central Indiana farm.

So did my dad. He doesn't like guns much.

 

[P95Carry]

Now - I am gettin on ........ and when I was a kid, neither my folks nor anyone I knew locally, where in the least spaced out by me playin with toy guns ........ later on I went to the real deal and still had no problems .... there was a very good attitude back then (50's and early 60's).

My dear ole Mom .. a very dear frail ole lady .. is well happy that i carry ... and is more than upset by all the anti's.

 

[Esky]

My mother was definitely anti-, and my Dad let her call the shots (!) altho he told me about his childhood in Northern Calif, where at the age of 11 he had his own .22 rifle. So when I turned 12, I was all set for Christmas, having dropped many hints about a Daisy BB rifle... but to my dismay, Santa didn't come through.

Many years later, my Dad apologised to me for that... he reckoned that he was all set to get me one, but was firmly overruled. Maybe it's no surprise that they got divorced!

Now I'm in sunny Western Australia, where guns are pretty much non-existent (except to criminals!) but there are still a few struggling gun clubs- which I've got to get into.

I'm looking forward to my return to the US of A in a few months, but I'll be coming back to Ms. Feinstein's California... I wonder if SHE will let me have a BB gun by then?

Esky

 

[12.7x99mm]

I guess I was raised in a gun friendly house hold. All I remember at the dinner table was WWII talk… all the time.

I think I shoot my first real gun when I was about 6. A .38 police pistol. My Grand Dads I think. Before that it was air rifles in his basement all day long. Then I got my first gun when I was? 13. A 20guage 22mag single shot O/U. For hunting deer and geese up at the lake house.