First gun/shotgun- Stevens 311H(or is it G) 20 ga. 26" barrels choked imp/mod. My dad cut the stock down so that my little butt could shoulder it. 12 -15 years later added a piece of 1/8" thick oak where the saw blade cut the stock, added the cut off section back to it, and refinished it. 2 or 3 coats of stain, and close to 10 coats of polyurethane later, it's the most beautiful gun in the world (at least to me). I still have it, and will never get rid of it. That is the gun (for me) that goes along with the saying "...from my cold, dead hands."
First rifle-An old Remington 5??, .22 lr with a 5 shot magazine. I still have it.
First pistol- Ruger Mark I, made in the year I was born. Marked on top of the receiver "Made in the 200th year of American Liberty." I still have it also.
First centerfire rifle- Marlin Model 336 in .30-30. I still have this one also.
First centerfire pistol- Walther PP in .32 ACP. Made in the late 60s. (Maybe 66 or 68). I still have this one too.
If you can see a pattern, I sell very few guns. 2 in fact, in 22 years (3 if you count one that my dad traded for a Trapdoor Springfield). And I wish I had only one of them back. And no it isn't the one my dad traded. I was kind of glad to get rid of that jam-o-matic CAR-15. I just wish I could've sold it during the years of the AWB, instead of just a couple years prior to it.
Wyman