Guns and your father

My grandpa (mom's dad) actually got me into guns when I was about 14, spending the summer at my grandparent's house.

I actually ended up getting my parents into guns after I turned 18 and started my collection.
Between the two of them, they own five guns I think, and both CC fucking everywhere.

Also have gotten my sister's boyfriend into guns in the past year or so, he bought a vintage S&W Sigma and a Remington 783 in .308.

Trying to get my sister into shooting too, she really doesn't much care for it. Not that she's against it, she just doesn't care much for it.

>>32381969
My father was a drug addicted alcoholic who my mom divorced when I was 2 and died when I was 12, I don't know.

>>32381969
Fuck yeah he did. As I've grown older its still how he and I relate and bond. When I head home for christmas we're going to reload a fuckton of 9mm and .45acp for me to take back. I'm really lucky that I get to share moments like that with him, and I'm always thankful for it.

He will never understand why I shitpost on a chinese cartoon forum with traps, furries, neets and weebs. But he'll always understand why I love guns.

No, my dad never did shit with me.

He went on fishing trips with my brother, never with me.
He went hunting with my brother; he let me fire his .22 twice.
He rode motorbikes with my brother; got my brother's 50cc bike, rode it a few times until it broke down, and he never bothered to fix it, but he bought my brother a new 125cc.
He showed my brother how to fix cars; he spent a grand total of two days showing me.
He shared beers with my brother from when he was like 15, he never once shared a beer with me.
He played chess with my brother all growing up, every Sunday after dinner. He played checkers with me maybe a dozen times.

Man I tried to get him to do shit with me. I tried to get him to help me practice cricket. Get him to play Playstation fighting games with me. Go camping, fucking anything.

It really fucking hurt being treated so differently, and I don't think either of them still understand, or really even bother to think about why I'm so distant from them.

My dad died the day after Christmas, you asshole.

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I'm the one getting him into guns, actually. He did some shooting when he was in the army in the 70s but never really did much with it, and only fired BB guns in the cub scouts with me.

Got into guns in college, brought him skeet shooting, and he loves it now. Unlike my poorfag ass, he can actually afford well made firearms and all the equipment to maintain them without having to set money aside for a month.

Feels good to finally have a bonding activity now that I'm an adult.

Birth father was a major drug addict and gave up all custody of me when I was 2. I have 4 step-siblings from him that have contacted me but they are scum like he is. Only thing I got from him was balding at 21 and most of my hair gone at 22. If I ever see him irl I will probably mag dump into him and his kids.

>>32382052
At least you had a dad you fucking prick

>>32381969
Yes. Dad took me shooting when I was 16, been shooting ever since.

Recently, he has agreed with my mom that I can buy my own guns and keep them in the house. He wants to buy me an AR15 for Christmas. Little does he know, I have 4 guns already, one being an AR I sleep next to and conceal carry. I just don't know how he will react let alone know how to break it down to the both of them.

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>>32382180
>one being an AR I sleep next to and conceal carry.
>AR
>Conceal carry

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>>32381969
When my dad was alive we would mostly just travel and shit when we would hangout. He wasn't anti-guns, just never really got around to it, he died when I was 12 but I'd shot guns well before that and he didn't care. My step dad and I go shooting often when I go home and visit from school. He actually just bought me my first AR so that was cool.

>>32382121
>his "dad" was the DNA extracted from a skin scraping of his lesbionic mumdad
roflcopter

>>32382193
>he doesn't wear trenchcoats
normies out rooo

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>>32382043
I'm so sorry. I am very grateful to have good parents.
>>32382066
That kind of happened with me. My dad had a 1911 and a shotgun when I was a child but either he didn't want to or my mom didn't let him get me into shooting. I also hated guns as a child. However, as I grew up, he helped me buy an AR and he bought one for himself. Now we go shooting together once in a while. I also changed my mom's opinion on guns from negative to more positive (not really into them but very supportive and respectful of me). She also shoots with me occasionally. Pic related it's my mom with my Suomi

My dad is a commie pinko hippie. He hates guns.

I introduced myself to gun ownership right after the Mumbai Terror Attack.

>>32382324
>Mumbai Terror Attack
There was a lot of poo shed that day.

My dad is responsible for my love of guns. When I was little we didn't go shooting very often because my mom used to be pretty anti-gun. As I got older she stopped caring and we went more often. Funnily enough, now that I don't live with them and have my own guns, we go shooting together way more than we used to. My mom even comes along some times.

>tfw going trap shooting with both of them in a week or so.

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>>32382324
>Mumbai Terror Attack.
I would drink at a few of those places they hit. Was there a year earlier visiting family, Indian cops don't carry and the ones that do(usually Inspectors) have old WW2 Wembley's or Lee Enfield's so any attack was going to be bad until the military could show.
>>32382332
Indeed

>>32381969
>the weak must fear the strong

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>>32381969
>Be Son of Clint Eastwood
>5'11

>>32381969
Dad was anti-gun and wouldn't let me openly keep toy guns until just before he died. Bastard killed himself when I was 12. His father was anti-gun too after (presumably having killed someone) in WW2.

>>32382180
Lived with my grandpa and he wouldn't let me keep guns in the house. He wasn't personally opposed, but my grandma hated them when she was alive and he wanted to respect her wishes. He was OK with me keeping my guns in the garage or shed, and my AR15 "disassembled" in my room, little did he know I had 7 others stashed in there a few months after my 18th birthday.

Didn't have room to store one of my bolt action rifles so I kept it in the shed and someone broke in and stole it. Thank God I had taken the others out just a couple weeks prior.

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>>32381969
My dad was an army officer who worked in the intelligence community and then the private security sector.

He introduced me to guns, but since we mostly lived overseas when I was growing up, I don't know of him owning any or having any in the house. We went shooting very rarely at ranges where we would rent firearms.

I actually offered to buy him a 1911 GI for Christmas a few years ago (I would have needed his info for the paperwork) after he talked wistfully of qualifying with one back in the 1980s, but he politely declined.

He's always been a fairly relaxed mainline liberal with a strong civil libertarian streak, but as the party has moved further towards one extreme on the issue, so has he, and since about 2013 (aka Sandy Hook) he's moved more and more into the anti-gun camp. We recently had a bitter argument about Hillary and gun control in early September of this year. Both of our voices were raised. I normally get along very well with my father and I regret it. He's more recently told me I should sell at least a few of my guns (I own four) and has frequently described having guns in a safe in my house as a health hazard for me and for my girlfriend.

It makes me pretty sad. He's a good guy, and while I know it's childish to feel like I can force him to agree with me and "see the light" on this, I wish I could take him shooting or have a fun day taking apart and cleaning an AR with him. In a lot of ways, I consider him a better man than me. I wish my hobby wasn't something that came between us.

>>32381969
>Did he introduce you to guns?
sort of. he first showed me his guns but i shot my uncles guns first. my dad bought me a BB gun when i was a wee lad if that counts

Went shooting at the new range recently for my brothers birthday. Me, bro, dad, bros boyfriend. Great time.

>>32381969
My dad started taking me shooting when I was about 5.

I'll never forget the sight of miller light shooting out of my Dad's nose because I slammed his sks' bolt on my finger while cleaning it.

My grandfather on mom's side collected S&W, he also loved cowboy action.

My other grandfather owned a small gunshop.

I got pretty lucky that the only anti-gun people in my family are my Mom and Aunt.

>>32382499
>and has frequently described having guns in a safe in my house as a health hazard for me and for my girlfriend.
What a poor excuse for a man. I would cut contact with him for a while and see if he eases up.

>>32381969
Yes, he enjoys skeet and trap shooting the most and no I reintroduced him to guns after my grandfather was shot and killed in a robbery. He had a very strong resentment for guns but has become more open after he remembered shooting my grandfather's guns as a child.

>>32382541
>cut contact with my father because he takes the soft propaganda on NPR without its requisite grain of salt and is in a different political party than I am

yeah okay, sure buddy.

>>32381969
No, I grew up in suburbia, and we didn't have any guns. I used to be fairly anti-gun when I was a kid, but I became a supporter of the second amendment on principle, having never fired a gun myself. When I was around 18, my grandma told my dad and I to come over one day, and she gave us my late grandfather's .22 and 12 gauge, older than my dad and fired no more than 100 times each. My first post on /k/ was asking to identify them. Nonetheless they just sort of sat in our closet for about 2 years. In the meantime I went away to college. I kept thinking I should buy an AR, but I was always on the fence about it. Finally I asked for one for Christmas, and lo and behold it's under the tree. As I'm buying ammo and cleaning kits, I remember we have 2 other unfired guns, which I decide to take and clean up. One of the most gratifying moments I have ever had was showing my dad the barrel of his dad's old .22, it was in great condition and I could tell how excited he was to restore his dad's old gun. We take them all out to the range after New Years and just have a blast. That was last Christmas, and since then we've put about 1500 through the AR, 500 through the .22 and an untold number of shells through the 12 gauge. I've also picked up a pistol and my dad is strongly considering getting a revolver. So long story short we've sort of got into it together, and it's been something we have really bonded over the past year (not that we didn't have a great relationship before).

/blogpost

>>32382499
>>32382573
Your dad sounds like a huge fag.

>>32381969
Biological dad is liberal anti-gun. He was never in my life and left me with mom...

Step-Dad is /k/ incarnite. We nearly burnt down our woods around our hous pouring homemade napalm into a groundhog hole. When he had ideas we usually ended up.in some fucked situations.

The guy really is the only father figure I ever had.

>>32382573
If my dad was so effeminate that he soaked up NPR and had open, partisan disdain for one of my passions, I'd at least make him suffer a bit for it. Wouldn't want him to influence my kids or wife.

lmao no, I'm hispanic which meant that gun owners around me were rare. I had a couple uncles in the army but one lived in puerto rico and the other was older and not really into them anymore but at least he would tell me cool stories about 'nam.

I basically had to seek out my own training and get over the hurdle of getting a cc on my own. Thank god for the internet tbqh. After I did that I took the NRA courses and just kept going to the range. I mostly focused on pistols though, that was always my main interest. I actually took my own step-dad to the range a few times as well as a few friends.

Nowadays I do a bit of IDPA and have brought p much all of my family closer to the light and am well on my way to teaching my younger brothers about gun rights, conceal carry, and proper firearms handling.

Surprisingly everyone around me has been enthusiastic and receptive about it, especially my mom.

My father sold heroin and got caught in a country where shitposter masters hail from.
Me and mom moved to glorious US.
Raised by mom and family, dad only calls for money. He burned bridges with all his close friends and family many times. And now he's sick, or so he claims.

Got into guns myself.
If I have a child, I will use my own life experience as motivation to not fuck up and be a father for them. Also to teach them responsible gun ownership and importance of US Constitution and pitfalls of modern liberalism.

>>32381969
Dad tried to get me into guns when I was like 12 but my dad and I always butted heads until I was about 17 (Mom pinned dad and I against each other via lies, long story). I didn't recently get into guns until about two years ago, which is why I just buy milsurp is because "muh history and muh untold stories"

I probably wouldn't give a shit about guns if it wasn't because of the history behind them.

Yes.

Taught from when I was a kid. He was a keen hunter and we did lots of hunting.

Crazy thing was that he used this fucked up old fixed 4 power scope on his beat-to-shit Model 94 'thutty-thutty' and nailed nearly everything he shot. I couldn't even see through it, it was so blurry and the reticle was off center. Kek! Happy times.

>>32382573
No, I don't think you understand. He has a DIFFERENCE OF OPINION, anon. You need to cut all contact with him, publicly denounce him as a traitor to the constitution and the values it represents, then order twelve hundred pizzas to his house.

I mean sure, he raised you and he's your dad and you probably get along well otherwise, but HOW DARE he think differently on this singular issue. Come the day of the rope, these people will hang, but until now, the next best option is to heap scorn on him and shut him out of your life completely.

It's really the only logical thing to do in such a situation.

My dad had guns while I was growing up, but never used them. His dad, my grandfather, gave me a single shot H&R shotgun at age 7. I've been in love with guns ever since.

After turning 21, I started buying pistols, got my dad interested in it, we used to go shooting every weekend.

>>32381969
Ehh. Mine only got me into them For hunting. Mines kind of a fudd.

I REALLY got into guns after i turned 18. Got a job right out of high school that paid well, so i was able to start buying them immediately.

.... And im not gunna lie. Vidya Games kinda of got me into them, like, REALLY into them.

My dad shot himself in the head with his 30-30 when I was a year old.

>>32381969
My father served in the Air Force for 20 years, though he was previously raised in England. He doesn't dislike guns, since he wants a USGI M1911. But from growing up he was controlled by my mother even after they divorced so I couldn't get into buying guns until I was 18.

>>32381969
My dad taught me marksmanship with everything except a realgun (not for any particular reason aside from suburbia having few places to shoot realguns, there was a gun in the house for defense). Dead now, though. Too much drink. Saddest part? Sobered up and got super-responsible, just before the end.

I've carried on the legacy in the not-drunken ways, and now I'm shooting handguns.

>>32382066
I wish that was the case with my dad. He doesnt seem interested in it though.

If anything im getting my Little brother into it. I was never close with any my brothers though and his 18 Year old ass would rather go get fuckin Drunk and get DUIs and Drunk Tattoos and shit with his friends. But whatever, its his life.

Im into reloading and tried to get my dad into it, but he is adamantly against shooting reloads. Had a fucking 243 blow up in his face one time, like 20 years ago.

My mom probably has put more rounds downrange than my dad ever did. Odd family, to say the least.

>>32382742
So he did get you into guns

>>32382688
When you have nothing left and have to autistically strawman your opponent, you've lost the argument.

>have quiet, soft spoken dad
>mostly a house husband, fairly liberal, never talked about guns
>one time ask him to go out shooting with me and my friends
>guess it's kinda unconventional to be teaching my father to shoot, but whatever
>we get out to the range, he spies my buddy's AR15
>"Hey, can I see that?"
>field strips and reassembles AR15 in less than a minute

And that's how I learned my quiet, househusband dad was viciously trained by my milfag granddad to be a solider from the ages of 6-17. He left home at 18 rather than go to Vietnam, and rejected everything military after that.

>>32381969
>the weak should fear the strong

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Bong here

dad probably never held a gun in his life

grandfather was a shotgun owning farmer and keen hunter who grew up when gun control was a pipe dream. he did his national service in Aden/Yemen and told understated war stories about scorpions in boots, stopping arab cars then waving them off with مع السلامة, Twin Pioneers being used to search for arms being smuggled into the country from saudi etc.

the latter was a big influence I think

My father is a contrarian with very socialist post-'68 tendencies. Skipped his military service and all. The last thing I remember him doing with me is teaching me to ride a bike when I was 6. He's basically a passive-aggressive antigun who barely tolerates me being hasguns. He gets more interested when I bring home a bladed instrument and he's still convinced that I have 3 rifles and one pistol (we're more in the range of 6 long guns and 3 handguns)
He came shooting at my range a couple of times, so you could say I introduced him to the sport. He doesn't like it though.

My mother is a whole other story: she used to be afraid of guns until I introduced her to safety rules and basic technique when my grandfather died and left her a couple of pistols. She comes shooting her .22 with me from time to time.

Nah, I'm the odd one in the family. First one to like-like guns and military stuff in about two generations.

>>32382804
funny thing is, I believe many /k/ommandos would end up training their children to the way of the gun, if they had any. I know I would.

>>32382776
There was no argument, only autism.

>>32382776
I'm not the anon you're responding to in that post, but to be quite honest I'm not interested in destroying my otherwise fine relationship with my own father, no matter how unpopular he is with my fellow posters on a semi-anonymous Manchurian Bannerman figure-painting forum.

>>32382846
There's a different between that and forcing your child to spend multiple hours each day practicing rifle drills and landnav, to the point where they can't have any friends. The verbal and occasionally physical abuse didn't help either.

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Nope. Learned things from my sis and my late brother, then on my own. Dad wasn't (still isn't) good with guns. Figured that out after I finally convinced him to come shoot with me. Asked me to clean his revolver afterwards too, as he didn't know how (despite talking a big game about his old time gun experience). I even offered to get him out of the house and at the range all the time, but he never wanted to do shit. I really wish he'd been into hunting, shooting, and everything I'm into now. Maybe he would have actually done shit with me when I was growing up, or ya know, maybe come to a game or two. Pretty much paid the bills, watched the news, and slept. Thanks pops, I guess?

>>32381969
My father got me into guns. He took me trap and skeet shooting, and is the reason I thoroughly enjoy destroying things with a shotgun.

He doesn't go shooting with me because he has short-term memory loss and doesn't trust himself around something that can kill people.

He got brain damage in 2000, caused by Lyme Disease and West Nile Virus. Turned out he was the first case of WNV in Illinois, and the first person to be studied at Mayo Clinic with the virus. It also turns out that the Lyme interacted with the West Nile and kept him from turning into a vegetable and/or being paralyzed from the neck down. It also really changed his personality from what I remember him being as a kid.

Going through that shit as a 9-year-old seriously sucked, but I'm glad to have had him get me into guns.