Yes and no. I grew up in the big city and my mother did not like those dangerous things. When I turned 16 we moved to 10 acres in the country, but none of my new friends were hunters.
At college the local VFW hosted 22 pistol shoots on campus. Only five rounds at a time, stand sideways, one arm out, no rapid fire and take a brake every few minutes to check the paper. Boring. One of my shooting "buddies" offered to let me shoot a box of 50 out of his revolver if I would clean it after. The outdoor range had a silhouette target way out there, probably 100 or 150 feet. He handed my a 4" blued revolver with wood grips. It was not very heavy, but the bullets were. I loaded six, lined up my sights, struggled with that double action pull and BOOM. Yep for the next 49 shots would flinch badly. I only hit the target half the time. I jerked the trigger so badly that some of my shots landed on my neighbors target, but like a teen being forced to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes by his father, I got through it. Oh but I was not done yet, remember I had agreed to clean it. The solvent stunk of ammonia. I had to clean it twice because I didn't do a good enough job the first time. After that I said that firearms were not for me.
My knowledge of guns came from the news and Hollywood which I know now were mostly wrong. My opinion of firearms enthusiasts were based on that one mule hole. While I wasn't fully anti gun, I mostly parroted the liberal politicians and probably sounded like Dana Carvey's prudish Church Lady. "Well I just don't see why anyone would need more than a ten round clip. You shoot the bad guy once and he drops dead, just like on TV." "Ordinary people should not be allowed to own an AR or AK. They spray bullets everywhere. It's true, I saw it on the news. The news showed a rifle firing full auto and the newscaster said it was an AR or AK. Clinton banned them, but now you can buy them again." After SandyHook I actually yelled at the TV "What the hell is a BushMaster and why is it killing so many kids." The only times I had ever heard of Glocks were when the news reported that some guy had shot himself in the butt, leg or foot. Therefore Glocks=unsafe. So as you can see I was a very low information voter.
Hunting and plinking were ok but evil black rifles and hi-cap striker fired handguns had as Bush 41 put it "No legitimate sporting use". So, I guess instead of anti I was more like a FUDD.
So what changed? First after 18 years of gun free marriage in our small quite town, methheads started causing problems. Breaking into cars, walking into peoples houses and taking stuff just a block away from our house. Second the Obama gun control push of early 2013. My wife said to me one day, "I think that we should get a gun."
As I researched firearms, safety and the whole political argument, I found that most of the antis were lying. I could never be told it, I had to discover the truth myself.