What sparked your interest in guns?

[Al LaVodka]

"Other."
Um, I'm a man!?
Mom told me that when I was still in a highchair I used to bite the corner off a Saltine cracker and "shoot" the gun-shaped remainder...
Al

 

[clance]

My dad was a gun nut and I literally teethed on a derringer. So firearms are in my genes.

 

[Bonesinium]

Honestly I'm not too sure. I voted 'movies', because that is one of the things I'm thinking it could be. I've loved guns for as long as I can remember. Besides BB guns and paintball guns, I never had any real guns. My mother despises guns for some reason unknown to me. I remember watching all sorts of John Wayne movies and westerns and war movies as a kid. Die Hard was about my favorite movie ever. So if it wasn't movies, I don't know what it was.

 

[Laf'n'Larry]

I didn't have a choice.

How could I not be interested in guns - 1) male; 2) Born and raised in Texas. It's probably just that simply. I think almost every male is endowed at birth with a desire to weaponize every possible play object. I know that was true for me and my younger brother. In my time, I played with cap pistol replicas of Colt single-action and Winchester lever guns and 1911's. For my brother it was Roy Rogers and anything related to Davy Crocket including long rifle and coonskin cap.

His youngest is now 2 and a half and he is all about pirates and manages to turn every loose object into either a saber or a flintlock pistol. That is inspite of his mom's insistence that no weapons be brought into the house and that no one is allowed to give him a toy that is related to a weapon. She's on the wrong side of nature on this because he will turn ever stick on the ground into a play pistol or sword.

Genetics being the wonderful thing that it is, everything is in balance. His sister age 4 and half is all about being a princess. Everything has to be glittery, ruffles and tiarra's and of course we are all her subjects and must attend court affairs -- at least when we aren't having to walk the plank or getting maimed in a boarding attack.

 

[brandon_mcg]

grew up hunting. started with squirrels with a pellet gun then a 410 then doves with a 20 ga or 12 ga then deer with the 243, 30-06, .308. now it has evolved to handguns and tacticool type stuff, much to my newlywed wife's dismay!

 

[ethiopian-gunna]

I voted family, but, none of my nuclear family members are firearms enthusiasts. It was the legends, and stories of my grandfather’s African safari hunts, and his survival of the communist regime in Ethiopia that piqued my interest. But I must say, that I do not remember the day I said to myself "I like guns"; the interest seems to have been innate (I believe this is true for most males). I can not attribute my fascination with guns to any one source; my best explanation is that I am carbon copy (in mind and body) of my gun-nut grandfather whom I never met (strangely enough). I also can not explain my fascination with big block Chevy muscle cars!!

 

[wvshooter]

WVa passed shall issue for handguns and I thought it would be a good idea to arm myself.