How old were you when you got your first gun.

[Babarsac]

My first firearms was a Mosin 91/30 that I got while I was working out at the 29 Palms Marine Base. I was 24 and yep...I'm stilll 24.

 

[FireArmFan]

I was 6 years old when my dad and I went to a gun show and a picked out a nice little left handed bolt action savage .22 I still have it and I put quite a few rounds through it this last summer.

 

[TheDisturbed1]

ah.... my first

16th B-day... Nylon 66. Gift from Gramps, I dont think i will ever sell or trade it in for anything.

 

[k-frame]

S&W Model 67...

...which I bought very recently, and I'm 51. Got it for home defense and range shooting. I wanted a revolver because my wife has problems with wrist break on semi-autos that we have borrowed.

Next up is probably a .22 semi but no make or model in mind.

 

[Gunblade]

I was 19 when my uncle bought me a Marlin 981T for target shooting.

I'm twenty now and saving up for a Hi-Point 995 as a house gun.

 

[CountGlockula]

I was a late bloomer: thirty-something.

 

[AirForceShooter]

17, Uncle Sam gave me a gun along with lots of instruction.

My parents were sooo anti-gun.

AFS

 

[fordfan485]

Had been around guns since I was like 8 or 10, but didn't buy my first personally owned firearm till I was 20( I wont count the M16A2 to the army issued me at 18 since its not personally owned) It was a total impulse buy too. Went to a indoor shooting range with one of my friends and afterwards was looking at what they had for sale in the store and saw a romanian sar-1 for 300 and bought it.

 

[loud-mouth shnook]

4 years old.

Inherited my grampa's 16 ga. Wingmaster. He'd gotten it used in 1962. Had it into my mid 20's and sold it in a desperate time after wife's death. Still hurts me to my heart to think about it gone.

 

[ShooterMcGavin]

Ah yes, I still remember getting my very first gun.... it was on Monday, 3 days ago I'm 29.

 

[dtalley]

11th Birthday received a Winchester M290 semi auto .22lr. Had been shooting my fathers Sears bolt action .22 for serveral years before that.

 

[VTKFJoe]

I shot with my dad as a kid but didnt get my own till I was 26. My fiance who I was living with was pretty anti (now wife and is a bit better, at least she deals) but after a couple scary neighborhood incidents and with the scary y2k bug fast approaching I made the plunge and bought an 870 for $150. The Y2k bug didn't bite but the gun nut bug did

I've bought and sold many since then but I still have that 870 and probaly always will

 

[Zero_DgZ]

18. Hanging around with my nephew one day (he's my age) and we decided now was a good time to buy a shotgun.

So, I did. Still have that shotgun to this day.

 

[Rexrider]

I bought a marlin bolt action .22 three days after I turned 18 in 1984. I paid $60 for it at K-Mart (no....it was not a blue light special).

That was a very, very good day.

 

[Doc S]

16 and been adding to my collection since!

My dad is an anti-gunner.
Was barely allowed to have a BB gun.
I got to shoot with family (most of which had firearms).
When I was 16, I purchased my 1st .22 rifle (Glenfield Semi-auto).
Immediately moved to bigger rifles and shotguns. Joined the USN/USMC and added handguns to my collection...

I bought my son his 1st .22 when he was about 1 1/2...
Each of my boys has a sinleshot .22 and a singleshot deer gun (243 and 270).
They've been trying to talk me out of an AR-15 each (aint gonna happen)...

God Bless,
Doc S

 

[Sharps-shooter]

I got my Sharps rifle when I was 21 years old. it was the first gun that belonged to me, but I had been shooting since I was about 10. My dad was not anti-gun at all, and had hunted quite a bit when he was single, but never had guns in the house when we were kids. He made sure we knew how to safely shoot, load, and clean guns, but didn't even like us to have toy guns, and always taught us not to rely on them if we could help it. I think it was a good lesson. But I own guns now.

Ah yes, I still remember getting my very first gun.... it was on Monday, 3 days ago I'm 29.

Congratulations, shooter McGavin. may it bring you many happy memories, and no regrets.

 

[f4t9r]

13

 

[revolverman357]

My Father gave me this when I was 9 years old in 1971 and I still have it.

 

[GaryP]

I was 12 when my Grandfather gave me his single shot 12 gauge.
Will be 60 this year! Time flys when your having fun!

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I was thirteen and for Christmas I got a Springfield 120A
.22 single shot bolt action.

 

[SteelyNirvana]

Story goes my first Christmas my dad gave me my Sears 2200.22 Lever action single shot.I was 4 months old at the time.As far back as I can remember it was always in my closet and that's the story he's told me so I belive it's true.I bought my first gun when I turned 18,a Marlin model 60.

Brian Craig

 

[Zeke/PA]

At age 7, I acquired a Stephens Favorite.
Zeke

 

[Rev. DeadCorpse]

I was 7 when my Dad started teaching me to shoot with his S&W 19. A .38 wadcutter doesn't kick a lot. Got a .22 rifle a couple years later.

Almost 38 now and I'm already planning on my 3 yo child's first firearm. Pass on the tradition...

 

[Woodrow F Call]

First Gun A .22

I was 15, in northern Illinois, in the year of 1953.
A Mossberg 151 M semi auto .22.
It was used and I think I paid $17.00 for it used. Put on lay away and paid a little on it every week. Did not need a note from Mom or Dad or FOID card, as we did not shoot kids in school in those days lile some do today.
That was before Illinois became a communist state ruled by
the Daley Machine.

 

[dimitri]

I do want to share this with you; it is funny.
Ever since I was 5 years old my maternal uncle would buy me toy cap guns; from the Roy Rogers / Hoppalong Casidy sets to some fancy real-metal lever actions. He believed that toy guns should look realistic, he never liked the "Buck Rogers" battery powered 'ray guns'. All shot those strips of 'bang-caps'.
When I was nine my uncle returned from a trip to Baltimore (MD) and brought me a single shot "cap gun" with individual brass caps (round tin of 500). When I ran out of caps I went to the local hardware store (rifle in hand) to find more of "these rare caps". The clerk asked me.. "why don't you shoot 22 sorts or 22 longs, it can even use 22 LRs, instead of caps ?.. It was then that I realized that he had purchased a real firearm, not a toy. This was in 1958, the hardware clerk sold me a box of 100 22 LRs and I started shooting at targets in the open pasture behind the house. My parents did not know; when I was 13 they bought me my first muzzle loader (a kit you had to put together yourself), and at 18 they got me a Marlin 39A. They marvelled at my marksmanship !! They did not know I had an 9 year head-start.