Early Exposure to Firearms

>>34529020
your grandpa was cool

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>>34529020
>be me, 6 years old
>playing Halo CE
>Dad cuts in and says "Hey if you want, I could show you how to fire a real gun sometime."
>Sure dad, lemme get back to shooting aliens
>fast forward 2 weeks
>learning how to fire a beat up Ruger MK II at some cans in the forest next to our house
>fall in love with shooting at that moment
I still have that pistol somewhere.
Probably gonna refurbish it soon.

Shot my dad's CO2 scoped pellet rifle with him when I was ~5 years old. Got to hold an Ak5, and ride a helicopter and a Bv206 a few years after that.

I remember watching my grandpa shooting at lizards with an air rifle when I was about 3, I guess that's what got me interested

>>34530210
>hey son wanna shoot a real gun?
>WORT WORT WORT

> be me
>10-12 years old
>dad be outside with one of his brothers, shooting guns
>let's me shoot his 30-30 lever gun
>first and only shot knocks me flat on my ass
Almost a decade later I've got two funs and putting a third on layaway tomorrow.

>>34529020
My dad bought me an air rifle when I was like 8, then a .22 when I was 12.

Ironically enough, he got me into guns, now I'm getting him back into guns. I just bought an AR, and he's buying a handgun when we get back from vacation. Dad's make good range buddies, too.

Saw dad clean and load his old as shit Arminius Arms HW38 when I was about 5 or 6. I was mystified.

Grandad had a handful of side-by-side double barrel and pump action shotguns, a couple of pistols, and I distinctly remember him having an SKS, no bayonet, in a synthetic Monte Carlo stock with a low power scope. My dad and my uncle took it onto the back porch and each put a round through it at some old paint cans in a trash pile on the property.

I got more and more into guns as time went on. Got my first rifle (marlin mod 60) for my 16th birthday. Dad passed the old .38 on to me around the next year. At 19 I bought a shot to shit Bulgarian NDS-2 AK74 pattern rifle from a local gunshow. At this point we had a G27, a Remington 1100, a Stoeger Coach Gun, a Ruger 10/22, my AK and the .38. Bought a Glock 17 RTF2 from a coworker and did a pistol/carbine match with it and my AK. It snowballed from there. After moving out, my brother and I had 18 guns between us. I think I'm on Glock number eleven now and AR number 4 I think. Sadly, I broke one of my fathers rules about never selling guns and am down to just my Glock 19 gen 4, and my Danny D M4V1.

>>34529020
>be me 6-7 years old
>Dad is in reserves at local army base
>brings older brother, sister and I to some armory room
>racks of cool black army guy guns
>He let my brother and sister hold what I think was a m4 maybe m16?
>He held a m249 while i shouldered it
>Showed us how to clean a Beretta when we got home
Didn't realize how cool it was until years later. Figured anybody could just go in and look at army shit on the weekends or whatever
God I miss it

>>34529020
>I'm a little kid
>always was fond of weapons for some reason
>My dad prefered fishing, but at some moment decided to buy a 12G shotgun
>and so we were doing some different stuff like shooting some targets made of newspapers
Now I'm in the airshit but still planning to get some real firearms.

>>34531896
My uncle took my cousin and I to the local NG armory. Only got to see Ah-64s up close. No blasters though. Your dad sounds cool as shit.

>>34531882
>Dads make good range buddies
This is true. My dad was a Marine yet never got into guns other than buying a pistol for home defense. As soon as I got into guns he got into them too. Now his favorite thing to do is research them, go to the range, or look forward to one of our next purchases.

>>34531979
Are you me? It's definitely a good feel to share such a cool hobby with muh dad

>>34529020
>Grandpa's house
>Good food
>Guns
>Makes joke about being shot at
What's it like having a nice family holiday anon?

>>34529020
Shooting back

>>34529020
>dad is police captain
>knows armory guy
>get to shoot full retard mp5s and a full retard hk33

good times

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>>34529020
>be yugoslav child 4 year old
>war starts
>armed thugs start going door to door, collecting guns, bullying people
>dad is hasguns, gramps next door too
>WE KNOW YOU HAVE GUNS, HAND THEM OVER!
>they point their M70s at us all the time, safety down, lol, trigger disciple - what's that?
>dad hands over guns
>they leave for my gramp's house
>dad throws us in the car 5 seconds later and we leave for western europe
>20 years later
>jump through hoops to get guns
>get guns
>parents visit
>what's this new cabinet out of metal son, mom asks
>it's gun safe
>A WHAT? ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU HAVE A GUN IN THERE?
>No, I have 3.
>Mom has been butthurt for 8 years now
>no fucks given

yes, my first memory of guns and only memory of "home" is thugs pointing them at me and my family.

In my earliest memories I was hooked on video games, baseball and handguns. I loved watching my dad play his video games and I loved watching baseball on TV. I must've seen war movies on AFN growing up that's the only explanation since it was overseas in nogunz land.

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>>34529020
>Be 12-year-old me
>Pham Ngo gives me SKS
>Tells me to shoot the ghosts
>One of them had a faggot grandson

>>34529020
When I was about 8 my neighbour kid got a dartgun. We used to go around trying to shoot dragonflies with it at the pond. It's a miracle we never hurt anyone

>>34529020
My grandpa had a scoped .22 Contender and I wanted to shoot it. I was like 6 when this happened.

>>34531896
>Be 13 and go to range for first time
>Firing .22
>someone lets me fire their black powder
>getting ready to go when
>"Have you(dad) ever shot this rifle before?" "nope havent"
>Bolt action Model 70 with an old lyeman 4x scope, Granpas elk rifle
>Chambered in 375 h&h
>Only have 5 rounds
>Load first one
>Slide bolt closed
>Squeezing trigger
>Rifle lifts off the bench and pushes me back
>Overweight bald guy with an ar was in the lane to my right
>Just looks me dead in the eyes and says "ow" while pushing his earpro in deeper
>He moves to another lane
>Load second round
>Scope hits me in the eyepro
>Blow through the other 3 rounds and leave with dad
>Havent shot it since

>be 8-year-old me
>whole extended family is gathered at my grandparents' house for Christmas
>Grandpa comes in the living room with a K98k and says "This is what the germans were shooting at us"
>lets me rack the bolt a few times

Not even joking.

>>34529020
My father raised me to appreciate antiques. Tried to get me into antique tools. Ended up being fond of glass insulators

>close enough for him

Go to massive auction there is a whole house full of antique guns for sale. Spen literally hours finger fucking them all with out adult supervision at the age of 9 until some one yelled at me.

>Now be 19 have my own funs.

>>34531979
I don't know that feel.
My dad hates guns. Gets really nervous whenever I have any of mine out while he's around. He shot some of my grandfather's hunting rifles and shotguns when he was a kid but now won't touch them and looks down on hunting as well. My grandfather only owns hunting guns and a few .22 pistols that I will inherit some day. He thinks I'm wasting my money when I buy guns and doesn't understand why anyone would want or need an AR, home defense shotgun, .44 magnum, etc.

>>34533817
>true story
>not muslimbro
>no replies

now I'm sad ;_;

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>>34529020
>dad buys me a single shot bolt action .22 when I am five
>we shoot it every so often
>this along with a shit-ton of FPSs injected into my childhood

I was kill bricks of 22lr with my new rifle when I was 6. I used my confirmation money when I was 13 to buy a Anschutz and started winning club, then eventually state matches in UIT and NRA smallbore. I currently shot Highpower.

>>34534251
I'm sorry. Your dad is a woman.

>>34533817
Godspeed anon, Godspeed

>>34533817
pretty nice story my man

>>34529020
>be me
>young, probably like 5-6 years old
>at grandpas house in South Dakota
>he's a vet, has a decent little collection of some guns
>he has a scoped BB gun me and my cousins play around with, shooting at cans from the back porch
>dad, probably a bit drunk or tipsy, begins teaching me breathing control techniques, how to squeeze the trigger and to keep the scope away from my eye, how to shoot
>years later I still remember to hold my breath, and to squeeze not pull. To slowly release my breath while squeezing the trigger.
>I can outshoot him now

>>34535338
Amusingly, my mom has a ccw and is all about being well armed. She thinks guns are cool and loves shooting my .44 and AR's

>parents hate guns
>I love them for whatever reason from as young as I can remember
>Buy guns because I want them
>Parents despise me for it
>Enlist the year I get out of high school
Parents haven't responded to my phone calls since I graduated AIT, two years ago. Glad I moved my shit into a buddies house before I left for basic.

>>34529020
>Be 7 year old Autistic child
>Spend all my time playing shooters on PS2
>Become Autistic Savant in Firearms

To this day my family is still concerned by how many books I own on just the AR-15

>>34530210
you were six when halo came out.
fuck me, I'm getting old.

>>34537543
I was 4. I'm 20 now.

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>>34537543
>6 years old
>Daddy a day comes from SEARS and bring with him pic related(Model 85) (it's a BB's rifle, like Daisy shit)
>Oh
>Starts to shooting to empty soda cans and cigarettes boxes each weekend since then
>Is funny, but meh
>10 years later my autism get trigered by the movie Saving private Ryan
>That old rifle from SEARS begin to be my best friend.

Since then am into this fetish.

There's two I can really think of

>Maybe 6 or 7
>Visiting much older cousin
>He brings out a .22 revolver and a .44
>lets me shoot the .22

>5 or 6 years later
>Visiting biological grandfather
>He has a few rifles and shotguns
>double barrel, semi auto and pump action
>Lets me rack the pump action a few times, work the double barrel

Nothing too exciting. Few more exposures throughout the years, finally bought my first rifle just a few months ago.

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>>34529020
>be me
>spawn of Texas
allowed to shoot a few 22.s with me gramps at 6/7
>loved the shit out of it
>11-12 got to shoot some 9mm (don't remember what it was) and a XD 45
>45 superior boolet lol

>shotgun day comes around
>dad hands me a KSG
>oh boy
>only hip fire in fear of arm loss
>go to a distant land
>prob 600 miles away at most
>get offered to fire an ak
>reject like a lil pussy
>live in shame all my life
>15-16 ask me dad if I can work on my aim
>keep nagging him
>he feels pitty and allows me to shoot half a mag in a SKS
>pow pow
>shells fall into pool
>shells start rusting in pool
>get naggered once more

>>34529020
my father gifted me a slingshot for the bird when i was like 5, then i tried makin bows when i was like 9 and my granfather gifted me a .22 air rifle when i was 12, then i asked my father if a could shoot an old rifle it was in the house, i did in christmas when i was 14, then at 16 i converted my pellet rifle to 22lr because it harly ever killed a bird. Since then i hunt well enough with the 22 and i reload 410 with slugs i cast and homemade black gunpowder. I will make a 20 gauge canon this weekend to mass shoot pest parrots there are in my country.
btw i have to reload 22lr cases i find at the range with matches and gunpoder and shoot pellets.
MFW anti gun laws

>>34529020
I teach kids how to shoot bb guns at an equestrian summer camp.

>line kids up
>make every kid put on safety glasses
>teach each one the NRA rules of firearm safety
>"this is a red Ryder bb gun, it looks a lot like the lever action rifles real cowboys used to use in the wild west"
>put a kids saddle on a knocked over barrel strapped to a pallet
>"today you get to be a real cowboy/cowgirl"
>put kid on saddle
>cock red Ryder for them
>help them shoulder, aim, flip off the safety, and fire once at a foam archery target placed in front of a dirt berm at hilariously close range
>take bb gun and put it on safe
>approach target and point at a hole near the bullseye
>"by god, I've never seen that before...you sure you haven't shot before? You're a natural!"
>(they don't have to know that I put that hole there earlier)
>they get super excited and want to do it more
>let them take 2 more shots
>if they see where the shot landed, and it's way off course I blame the wind or I "apologise" for accidentally bumping the barrel
>if not I point to another hole near the bullseye/10 ring
>rinse and repeat until all the kids have shot
>they usually leave super hyped
>they tell their liberal parents they shot a bb gun today with what they thought was incredible accuracy
>take one for the team and let the parents get pissed at me
>"but ma'am, it says target shooting right there on the brochure..."
>fist bump the kids when mom or dad isn't looking
>huge grins

I fucking love my job.

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>tfw when never even held a gun

>>34539277
What's your cunt?

>>34531979
I don't know this feel because my dad died earlier this year. I got him back in to guns, but he died before he could buy more than a pietta black powder revolver. Feels really bad man.

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>>34529020
>Be 5 (Parents divorced at 3 but see him a lot)
>Constantly exposed to firearms because they are everywhere in the house (next to bed, behind cabinets, next to safe, etc)
>Have a cup filled with random cartridges that i dump out on the carpet and play with while me and him watch cartoons
>Hes a cop btw
>He takes me to a range and i can barely get my hand over the stall
>Shoot some odd looking 22 pistol (no clue what it was but he referred to it as a "kit" something or other)
>Kinda scared me because it was loud and i couldnt see with the glasses on
>Scared me off for a while

>Be 6
>Its my birthday in January at my grandparents out in the country
>Get a bunch of presents, mostly just rc cars and shits
>He gives me a Red Ryder and my mom is cool with it
>He keeps it at his house and we shoot it in the basement and out the window
>Go shooting occasionally (real guns) but i still dont like it

>Be 13
>Actually enjoy shooting with him now, im still shit tho (we only shoot pistols btw)
>Because im so shit i told him i wanted to shoot his rifles since i figured id be better
>We shoot his Garand every other weekend and im pretty gud with it
>Do this for like 4 weeks (the weekends mostly)
>Want to shoot something else so we use his m1a
>Like it too
>Really got me into it
>Used to sit on the couch and watch war movies while fiddling with the rifles
>Childhood was 10/10

>>34539155
You are a good man.

>filename
Lol
>be twelve
>dad keeps my Henry Mini Bolt Youth under his bed
>whenever I want to play tacticool around my house I use that instead of toy guns like regular kids

six years old
family gathering in grandpa's ranch
I got my new cowboy outfit on. boots and hat.
grandpa empties a snub nose .22 in a leather holster and puts it on my pitiado belt
grandpa gets serious and says not to touch it until he tells me
first time someone talks to me like an adult
feel like the shit as I walk in to the living room
the entire family freaks out.
my dad is cool with it.

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>>34529020
>9 years old
>middle of nowhere village in russia
>see grandfather's mosin leaning against wall
>i go to look at it since i thought it was cool
>taught to never touch guns because i stroked this same mosin when I was younger and I remember my grandfather said "if you touch that again Ill shoot you with it"
>just kinda sitting there admiring it
>grandfather asks if I want to go shoot it
>"nyet i do not want you to shoot me"
>no you little idiot I said that to scare you,lets go
>thank fucking god he realized i needed ear protection,made me stuff cotton balls wrapped in plastic wrap in my ears
>shot at junk all day
>grandad told father and they both started taking me hunting
>shot my first large animal at 10 years old

Grandad died of liver cancer when I was 15,I was already immigrated to Canada at this time.Me and my father went back to bury him since none of his family came other than us.
I want to bring all the guns he owned into Canada but im 90% sure he didnt have a license ill be conscripted if I go back,so thats that.
I feel good shooting my mosin,reminds me of him.

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>>34540683
>>"nyet i do not want you to shoot me"
>>no you little idiot I said that to scare you,lets go

>>34529020
My college did (does? I don't know, I graduated years ago) a yearly shoot on Constitution Day. They gave a lecture about the 2nd Amendment and the necessity of it, then a quick safety briefing, and then bussed anyone and everyone who showed up to the shooting range. They had .22lr revolvers and auto-loaders, a few 9mms, some shotguns, and a few .22lr ARs. That day I realized I needed to buy funs.

I couldn't shoot worth shit, but I at least had fun with funs.

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>>34541829
>>34540683
Kek

>>34542117
>.22 ARs
How's your women's studies degree treating you?

>>34542210
300 people. As much shooting as you wanted. Charged nothing for it.

You want to buy that much ammo in 5.56/.223, or do you want to buy that in .22lr?

>>34534228
>glass insulators
Mah nigga, do you still collect?

> be 7 years old
> Be at Aunt's house right next to Grandpa's dairy farm
> Grandpa comes into house with 1967 Remington 870 wingmaster
> Asks my dad if he wants to blast some crows that are harassing the cattle
> follow them outside
> Grandpa starts shooting at the crows
> be about 2 feet away from him with no earpro
> EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
> hands me empty hulls
> smell them
> smellsgoodman.jpg
That's really what got me interested with firearms but my interest was turned into an autistic obsession when:
> 13 years old
> dad just died 2 weeks ago
> be depressed little teenaged shit
> family friends want to take me shooting
> go because it will get me out of the house
> shoot their .410 H&H single shot, .243 Remington 700
> all are meh
> then they give me a Marlin 336 xlr
> load it
> shoot it
> made me smile for the first time in what seemed like forever
> become obsessed with firearms
> buy airshit replicas because not 18
> Join skeet team in HS
> buy AR on 18th birthday
> now collegefag with a decent funs collection

>>34534064
>be 6 year old me
>whole extended family over for thanksgiving
>grandpa goes out back
>comes back with bow and arrow
>this is what the redskins were shooting at us.
>let's me rack the bowstring a few times

Not even joking

>>34542210
>his college promotes guns while mine has a strict "no weapons" policy on campus

breddy jealous desu

>>34543100
They teach firearms courses, too. Full sized trap range, 200 yard outdoor rifle range, 100 yard indoor pistol and rifle ranges.

Sorry your school has a zero tolerance policy. Wait until you get out. Not every place hates funs.

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>>34529020

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>>34529020
>Be 6
>inna Outdoor World
>dicking around, doing kid stuff like messing with the merchandise
>see pic related
>ask dad for an advance payment of my 10 months allowance
>spend it all in less than an hour
>miss almost all of my shots
>fucking worth it though

Ever since then I didn't really have much contact with guns thanks to lack of time, family problems, legal issues and money but I'm on the track to getting a gun.

My grandpa gave me a broken airrifle i found in his garage when i was like 5-6. I tried so hard to fix it but i was only so mechanically inclined at the time. I broke it playing army man in the woods when i tripped over a rock, i kind of wish i still had it now though

>>34529020
>See dads cabinet
>Open dad's cabinet and see his G3A3 that he brought from the army
>Dad was pissed because fudd
>Later on found out the old guy has some pretty cool shit in that cabinet
>Fucking fudds

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>>34531639

Gay swede spotted.

>>34531857
>12 years old
>30-30 knocks you on your ass
the fuck?

>>34531850
top fucking jej

First toy I can remember was a revolver pellet gun and dad was a competition shooter; he'd show me his competition gun occasionally and took me and my brother to he range every once in a while. Finally got to shoot it when I was 7 or 8 and got pretty close to where I was aiming.

>be 8
>grandpa is showing off his collection and tells me he'll take me shooting in a year or two
>has a heart attack and dies 6 months later.
>mom sells all the guns to buy shoes and clothes.

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>>34545710
WHY DO BITCHES DO THAT!? I KNOW 7 DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHOS MOM DID THAT! Albeit some were for other things like a purse, but still.. those were their dads how could they just sell them for meaningless shoes and shit? A friend of mine's mom sold a fucking mateba model 6 for 250$ to a pawnshop, a lever nugget for 150$, and a mountain of other guns for similar prices, that my friend was supposed to inherit.

>>34545782

He didn't have anything rare or valuable, just a bunch of fudd guns (no milsurp) he hunted with (never even came home with a kill that I could remember, it was basically just an excuse to sit in a stand and shoot the shit with some old buddies he went with)

Still as it was I was 25 before I actually shot a gun. I could have had an introduction a lot sooner and I'm sure I'm feel more comfortable around them than I am since all I heard from that point was "guns are bad and get babies killed"

>>34531857
>buying guns on layaway
nigger detected

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>Be 15 y/o me
> go to Brit NRA open day
>Start of day my dad and I buy tickets for different ammunition
>local military/civillian shooting range, place is huge
> Different types of funs on different ranges
> Go to full bore range first
>1000yds
>Whole selection of firearms to try. Ak, Kar 98, SMLE Mk 2 and a bunch of other bolt actions and some other straight pulls
>FUKEN JUMP ON THE LEE ENFIELD
> Dad shoots the K98
>Have a great time but run out of tickets after 5 rounds
>head over to the 25yd range for what I can only assume was the historic funs area
>Get to shoot a .357 marlin and a black powder Colt handgun
>Even with ear buds ears ringing after the Colt
> shit groupings but whatever it was first time
>rest of the day was great chilling with my dad and going around the various stalls and ranges
>fall even more in love with firearms than even my teen fantasies had imagined
>after that I joined the Cadets and got to shoot the cadet version of the SA80 and other stuff pretty regularly
> not touched a fun in years now bar plinking with my air rifle

Once I get a stable job and some good money I'll get an FAC and start shooting again at my local club!

>>34529020
>8 or 9
>rummage around in parent's wardrobe with little brother while they were out
>find smallish revolver
>"Wow, look, dad has a toy-gun"
>Aim at some shit and my brother like a retard
>can´t pull the trigger because it´s too stiff for my weak kid hands
>parents come home
>see gun in my hands
>flip the fuck out
>turns out it was a real, loaded,ilegally-owned gun

Only shot pellet and paintball stuff until last year, now I legally own a few handguns and looking to buy a rifle and shotgun.

>>34531979
>tfw your dad isn't interested in guns whatsoever

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>2008 panic buy
>father who was never really into guns percieves a threat to the right and gets into it
>I'm a middle school codfag at the time, and already had a good appreciation for no step on snek (probably from bad experiences with being run out of various places by cops for trying to fly model airplanes there)
>Pieces fall neatly into place
>Father finds out he really likes collecting and shooting
>Find out I also do
>Father and I learn to shoot together
>Load stripper clips together while watching John Wayne movies

I've got to hand it to Obama, he's indirectly responsible for some of my most comfy childhood memories

>>34529020
>>34529020
Not being allowed to have one. I'm one of those folks that doesn't respond well to arbitrary restrictions, especially back when I was a kid. This triggered a long-standing infatuation from afar with firearms. I think the first gun I ever got to fire was a .410 at a BSA jamboree. Hit my first clay 'cos I waited for it to be still in my sights, missed the rest of them 'cos I tried to fire at them normally and had no clue how much to lead the target by. Next time I got to fire a gun was about three years later, when a family friend (Marine bomb-squad turned pastor, pretty awesome guy) took me out to one of the local pistol ranges and let me shoot his collection. I think that's what really cemented it for me.

Probably scout camp where I shot a .22lr bolt action, no idea what I was 12 at the time, after that I went to the canteen and spent all my remaining money on ammunition tickets to go back and shoot more.

>>34543060
>be 8- blue moons
>whole tribe sitting around fire for unga bunga
>father of father walk in with club and say "dis what other tribe beat us with"
>let me swing club

Not even joking.

Dad was always /k/ as fuck.
We used to live in a trailer, and at the foot of the couch my brother slept on, was the gun safe.
He's bought us a few rifles with consecutive serial numbers for Christmas.
We have a photo of my brother as an infant, maybe a year old at most, sitting on the couch with a 1911 laid against him.

>Around 8 or so, dad takes my brother, my mom and i and takes us shooting on our frozen pond.
>Throws little hard decoritive gourds out on the frozen ponds as targets.
>Tries to teach me how to aim and take good shots
>Instead, i magdump 25 rounds from a 10-22 as fast as i can
>From that day forward, i have loved guns.

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>>34547536
>be protostar me
>Whole cluster gathered at grandparents stellar nebula
>Grandpa neutron star (he was a fatass) comes in the orbit plane emitting beams of lower energy radiation than usual and says "this is what the red dwarves were radiating at us"
>Lets me emit radio waves
Not even joking

>mfw one of my brothers became a brown dwarf and just sits in our parents' stellar nebula and fuses deuterium.

>>34547536
Lame

Go back to/b/

>>34534930
Working at a gun shop in USA I get to meet many immigrants from former Yugoslavia. They are my favorite people.

>>34543376
What college is/was this?

>>34537516
Knock on their door anon, make them talk to you, even if they reject you it's better then silence

>>34547804
only if you come back with me

>Little kid, about 5. Family visits Aunt and Uncle in the country
>Pops and uncle getting ready for hunting trip, I tag along when they drive out to the back 40 with a truckload of hardware.
>Don't like the earplugs, but pops says leave them in.
>They sight in rifles, big ones. Smoke, flames, and a KA-WHAM I could feel in my chest.
>Showers of splinters exploding from the stumps that targets were tacked to.
>They check targets
>"Daddy, daddy, can I shoot a gun, too?"
>Pops gets a .22 from the truck, holds the forend, but lets me aim and shoot.
>Got the xring, Unk can't stop laughing, "Maybe we should just send him out for a deer..."

Pops gave me my first .22 at 12, my first shotgun at 15, and my first pistol for my 18th bday.

We still go shooting together, although we don't hunt anymore.

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>>34531979
My dad is a cop and super into guns so its nice to bond over him with it. My mom was never into it when I was younger and now that I am grown up and out of the house there isn't much for me and my mom to talk about so she decided to get into guns and actually really enjoys it.

>be 6 year old me
>dad has an old lever action rifle in his closet, as well as a small revolver that belonged to his father
>shows me how they work and lets me hold it them

Not sure why he bothered as he's never had any interest in guns. The revolver was prohibited too, too snubnosed for Canada.

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>10 years old, spending the summer at grandparents house in PA
>Grandpa tells me war stories and let's me shoot his m1
>Grandma shows me how to shoot crows in the garden with her ruger mkII
He convinced my dad to buy me a ruger 10/22 for my birthday, and my collection has only grown since then. Ever since then me, my dad and grandpa went hunting with each other every year until he passed a couple months ago.
>mfw when he passed he left me his m1 but I can never have it because of shitty NJ gun laws

>>34548633
What's the law that says you can't have it?

>Grandpa always had his Moss 500 and an ancient Sears .22 on the wall.
>Liked to rack it and play with it, wanted to go out shooting with him but he worked almost constantly at a steel mill
>Years pass, never get the chance to go out with him, he passes.
>Inherit his guns, pull them apart, scrub them clean, reblue them, buff the wood.
>Take them out shooting with a bottle of his favorite irish whisky.

This was all very recent, since then bought a Mosin and started building my own AR.

>>34538864
What country? And what kind of parrots?

>>34537033
you should fuck her

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>>34533989
>.375 H&H
>deer rifle

Why do you need a safari round for a fucking deer

>what got you started with firearms
This video
https://youtu.be/oy43yskCyLQ
I had a panic attack after watching it and bought an AK on black Friday along with lots of ammo. I was so scare of WW3/Civil war/Trump being assassinated.

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>>34529020
I have a similar story
>my step father was in nam
>nice guy but essentially cucked by my mother because he had to take care of me for a good portion of my life
>told me about the M16 that he'd use in the war
>ever since then I wanted an M16
>ironically after I started playing Goldeneye 64 I was introduced to the AK-47 or as it was called in the game, the "soviet KF7"
>lead me to being an AK guy
I still don't own an AR (except for a receiver I haven't built yet) because I don't like the aesthetics on modern AR's. The only ones I like to this day are the ones that look like the classic Vietnam M16. When I start working again, I plan on building out that receiver and turning it into something similar to pic related.

>>34531857
>30-30 knocks you on your ass
You must have been some sort of 90lb mega twink. Or a manlet in the making. Or both.

>be 9 year old me
>drive down random path that leads to an opening to the missouri river
>dad gives me his ak and tells me to go for it
>shoots at water and trees n shit for 3 hours
>hooked
>bruised shoulder for next week

went to the same spot for a while. although stopped after it turned out one day we were accidentally shooting 100 feet from some people gathered near the river. started shooting behind my uncles place since he has 10 acres of property and didnt mind me shooting in it

>>34548177
Served!

>>34551075
>Granpas elk rifle

>>34542917
Fucking skeet team! I'm almost 30 now, grew up/live in Texas and I've seen some older friend's kids on HS skeet teams. WTF!? I didn't have that shit at my HS! How cool would that be, I'm so jealous of that shit. At least we had a shop class but I couldn't believe that was a real thing.

>>34551095
But Alex Jones is just a con artist talking bollocks

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>>34551503
And I'm a gullible pleb, what's your point?

Its fun having paranoid mental breakdowns, it's why I love happenings.

>>34533817
Nice dude, hope your famjam is okay

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>>34529020
>Grandfather fought in Vietnam

I am officially too old to be here.

>>34545710
>>34545782

Does anybody know of any legal methods for avoiding this outcome (i.e., making sure your kids inherit your firearms if your spouse isn't 100% reliable in this area)?

I was thinking maybe you could have a will that specifically transfers them to a trust for the kid(s) until they reach the age of majority -- but how would storage work? Are there companies that could handle this?

>>34529020
>be me
>7yr old
>birthday and my grandparents from MD were visiting (lived in NY at the time)
>opening presents
>go to open gift bag, feels super heavy for my anemic 7yr old arms
No anon, you should open this big box first
>ok
>pull off paper and see "Marlin"
>no idea what it is at the time
>pullout a single shot Marlin youth .22
>gift bag has 3 bricks of 500rd federal ammo
>grandpa looks at me
Well I talked to your dad and we both thought it was time you learned about firearms and responsibility
>almost cry from happiness and excitement at owning a gun
>fast forward 4yrs
>grandfather on dad's side bought me my first H&R 20ga

Gotta say I am really thankful looking back that I have based family and my rural community was cool with this thought process. The day after my 7th birthday I told everyone in my class o got a gun for my birthday and everyone was fascinated, not a single "OMG SCHOOLSHOOTER" response. This was also only about a year after Columbine.

>>34531882
Dads make the best range buddies. I had just bought a Swedish Mauser a few weeks back, and the first thing dad did when I told him about it was open his reloading case and hand me 3 boxes of rounds loaded specifically for Swedes.

>>34539155
I'm not gay, but I would suck your dick for all the good you are doing.

>>34546030
>silver spoon trust fund kidde
Hey Alex thought you left /k/?

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>>34547798
>Astrophysics jokes on /k/

>>34539280
and can you handle this ass?

>>34551095
Is this a shitpost?

>>34549126
Bayonet lug and detachable high capacity magazine makes it an "assault rifle" which is illegal, and it's also on the list of rifles banned by name.

I wasn't exposed to guns until I was about 20 sadly. Now it's my favorite hobby and I own ten funs

>>34529020
>be 8-year-old me
>whole extended family is gathered at my grandparents' hut for May Day
>Grandpa comes in the living room with an SKS and says "This is what we shoot at imperialist pigs"
>lets me fight off American invaders a few times

>>34539155

Good work anon. I'm a Finnfag who does pretty much the same thing with kids that are in senior high school. Military reservists here organize twice a year voluntary training courses for them with name that roughly translates as "Safety Training Course for High School Students". We organize these courses with Defense Forces, Police, emergency services etc. The training course mainly teaches them some basic safety skills (first aid, how to extinguish small fires, orienteering etc) and includes also introduction to rifle shooting with .22 LR bolt-action rifles. I have been volunteering as shooting instructor for couple of years. In basics of rifle shooting we try to teach them the most important basics - safety rules, how to handle firearms properly and (very) basic shooting skills. Some actually prove to be pretty good shots after just that minimal training, but we also try to provide every single one of them a positive experience with firearms.

Personally I started with firearms around age 13 with the .117 caliber BSA-manufactured pellet gun. Around the same time my who had older brother who had some .22 caliber pistols & rifles took me shooting a couple of times - possibly because he got me cleaning the guns after shooting. I bought my first own firearm at age 18, got into military-style weapons (modern & historical) after doing military service and have been shooting them ever since.

>>34552046
>I can save $1000 at a time so that means I'm a trust fund babby
more like I'm a responsible adult with a steady job

>>34552223
100% real

>>34552592
What are the gun laws in finnland?
What kind of firearms can you posses under what circumstances.

>>34534251
Did your dad use to be your mom, if you know what I mean?

>>34552919

The basic firearms legislation in Finland is pretty strict, but with an acceptable purpose for which the firearm is used, jumping through all the loops and going with long-term plan one can actually own stuff that would be either hugely expensive or impossible to own anywhere in United States.

All firearms manufactured after year 1890 have to be licensed & registered and firearms manufactured before that can only be owned without license if one does not have ammunition for it or intent of shooting with it. The usual acceptable purposes are hunting (documentation about successfully passed hunting examination & having place where to hunt required) and shooting sports (membership in sport shooting club/reservist club required, some firearms demand additional documents with pistols & firearms being the most difficult to get permits for). Full-auto weapons only available to licensed collectors (membership of firearms historical club required, filed collection plan must include the particular weapon and one has to collect other firearms belonging to collection plan before one gets permit for full-auto stuff).

While this is not exactly based to legislation police (which is organization that processes firearm purchase permits for each firearm) dislikes applications of pistols, revolvers or semiauto rifles for hunting purposes. Getting them is possible if one is a sport shooter that does type of shooting sports in which they are used (IPSC, SRA, IDPA...)

Legislation got notably tighter few years back due to two school shooter A-holes. At the moment we are waiting for new national firearms legislation due to recent EU firearms directive.

We have no caliber-restrictions, no magazine-restrictions (new legislation is expected to possibly include some sort) and suppressors are perfectly legit to own as far as one has legally owned firearm in which to use them.

Feel free to ask if you have more specific questions.

>>34552469
The M1 Garand doesn't have a detachable magazine lol it feeds from an en bloc and I'm sure you know this. Sorry you're cucked in that hellhole commie state of yours.

>>34552469
Just read what firearms are banned and I think I may have misspoke about the Garand. It appears you've got an M1 Carbine. My bad, Anon.

>>34529020
I hope this thread survive another couple hours. want to get my story in.

>Early 90's
>Dad comes home with a new Packard Bell computer
>Installs and launches DOOM II
>See the reload animation on the Super Shotgun
>Become enamored
>'Dad, can we go shooting?'
>'No'
> :(

>>34529020


When I was in Kindergarten, I drew a picture of a machinegun and said when I grew up, I wanted a machinegun... probably since before I was 5 I literally loved guns

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>>34553622
>M1 carbine banned by name
I thought we had it bad in Commiefornia
>mfw on a ten day waiting period for a kahr arms m1

>>34555495
I'm curious as to why no one has just outright fought these unconstitutional gun laws. Like, it's obviously infringing upon the second amendment. Why aren't more people suing the state government? Why aren't we seeing more of these types of cases reaching the Supreme Court? Why are y'all letting this happen? Why not write to your congress people and your representatives and try and talk some goddamn sense into them?

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>>34555632
On the west coast, the short answer is the 9th circuit. The laws actually do get petitioned fairly regularly, but the 9th is very left wing and hears appeals before SCOTUS. It's very difficult (and expensive, I imagine) to keep pushing for the supreme Court hearing, so most attempts die in the 9th. Now that a favorable ruling is more likely, attempts to get that far will likely begin again. We'll see how it goes.

tl;dr
Petitions do happen, but are always heard by the very liberal 9th circuit which will uphold regardless of constitutionality. One does not simply petition into the supreme Court

>>34555757
Oh, well it still sucks for y'all. I reckon it starts out sort of reasonable and snowballs from there as to how it happens? I don't know. I live in Kentucky so we don't deal with none of that.

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>>34556305
Middle-income Californians tend to be nosy, vindictive, and self-absorbed. Most are happy to destroy anything they don't personally enjoy, especially if it would make them more comfortable or grant a sense of power or accomplishment. Such is life under communism. I'm looking to get out myself (going to school in a based state, thinking about staying there or in one of a few other based states), but the majority of my family is in CA, as is a lot of industry. It doesn't help (though I'm thankful for it anyway) that I'm very close to my family. My father is bittersweet about it, but when he says shit like how he knows I'll come back less and less often, and how he'll miss me but he's thankful for the time we had and that I have to do it, it tears me the fuck up. My mom is nice enough not to talk about it much, but I know it bothers her too. All that said, its too fucking expensive here either way, and fuck living at home when pic related.

It's unfortunate, because California has some of the best /out/ and /o/, and vast swaths or the state are surprisingly based and home to legitimately pleasant people. It's been jerrymandered to death though, and all the California hype the boomers were exposed to turned the cost of living up to 11.

>>34551192
>Cucked by Kalashnikov

>>34548021
Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale Michigan.

>>34556442
Honestly, KY is pretty /out/. It's like it's own miniature south and everyone for the most part is pretty chill about things. Especially in a small town. Lexington is pretty liberal and hipsterish and definitely has some bad spots. I wouldn't trade KY for the world though, but I'm hoping that after I get in and out of the Marine Corps I'll have enough saved to buy some New Mexican land and start a ranch or something.

>>34557672
I wish it was cheaper to "shop around" for states. Part of me wants to just go motor home and change it up every few years, but I'm a skyfag/techfag, and neither profession is very friendly to that sort of thing. Certainly there's a lot worth seeing out there.

>>34529020
>be 9 year old me
>jew
>bible belt
>dad's parents were in concentration camps
>dad had a psychotic brother who routinely tried to kill him
>dad has a .22 LR and Ruger MK II for self defense because he doesn't know shit about guns
>dad has sat me down on repeated occasions throughout my childhood and told me that most of the world will hate me
>go to the range and lets me try the Ruger
>it's too heavy for me
>lets me try the LR and rest it on the bench
>looking through the scope of something and seeing a hole appear where I was aiming makes me feel like God
>2001
>dad is sporting a fully erect rage boner for the arabs
>he and mom are constantly raging about Hamas and PLO
>dude at indoor range tells him about AR-15's and a clinic open to the public at the hi-power range
>"wanna shoot some of those guns in your vidya games?"
>rest is history
though my dad is way more into shooting than I am and treats hi-power like a religion.
he's always trying to get other jews out on the range as well
he's convinced that someone will be trying to shoah us again
or just some other government shenanigans
before leaving for perry a few days ago he asked me if I thought it was possible for aircraft to deliver a slow-acting poison from high altitudes or by helicopter because """a friend""" believes it

>>34553597
he's talking about the m1 carbine, you nonce

>>34557943
If your dad is concerned about another shoah, he should try to persuade his co-religionists to disavow Marxism and stop trying to disarm the goyim

>>34535661
fellow dakotan here.
Best state.

>>34529020
>Dicking around with guns on a friend's land with dad and uncle; never shot anything bigger than a .22
>Hey c'mere anon, you wanna shoot the shotgun?
>Fuck yes I want to shoot the shotgun
>Uncle gets behind me and braces me so I don't get knocked on my ass
>Dad tosses up soda can full of dirt
>KA-FUCKING-BOOM
>Can explodes
>Shoulder is sore and I think that's the coolest thing ever
>Holy shit that was awesome

And at that point in time it was pretty much guaranteed that I'd end up here at some point.

>>34529020

>Be five or six years old back in 92/93.
>Dad is a bit of a survivalist.
>spent weekends shooting SKS, CZ52, Ruger MK I, and 10/22 with 30 round mags.
>Later taught me how to load his black powder pistols and how to use them.

>>34551075
its the >elk are hard to drop meme, famalam

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> be son of wealthy white family in East Africa in early 90s
> go Guinea fowl shooting with dad after wheat harvest for as long as can remember
> shoot first animal (a dikdik attached) when 8 years old with 22lr
> moved to Australia and started shooting wallabies + rabbits as teenager
> now hunt fallow deer in Tasmania with hand loads every season

>>34539322
>anon "gets his pa into guns" by being an incessantly whingy cunt
>anon's pa buys a cheap revolver to end his suffering inflicted by his own kiddo
sad!

>>34529020
My dad loved guns he is always had an AR-15 and an AK-47 and a 44 Magnum for as long as I can remember but I didn't follow in his footsteps as a gun nut until I played Metal Gear Solid for the first time all the weapons seemed so exotic and cool and the game seemed far ahead of its time I really became obsessed with it the guns especially I thought the socom was a fictional weapon until I got the internet and was able to look up the mark 23 and I have coveted that gun ever since and although I don't own one my favorite gun is pretty much a copy of it a large-capacity 45 pistol with laser and flashlight my dad who was excited that I was in to Guns got me a 22 for my 11th birthday and I have probably shot enough 22 caliber bullets to destroy every bird in the state of Alaska which I have tried to do.

My two brothers also started shooting guns around the same time as I did but I had a natural gift for aiming so I stuck with it while they got interested in other things.

>>34529020
i was about same age or so when my dad gave me a little daisey .22lr single shot to use squirrel hunting later that year. i still have the pictures of my face when i opened the box. my dads gone now but i still have that little rifle and i still use every once in a while and strangely i always get my daily limit with it.

>>34529020
>Be me 7th or 8th grade
>Go over to friends house. Friend has some land
>Asks if i was to go shoot some gats
>Go out back, first thing we shot was a .22 with no earpro. Not bad.
>Next i am handed a 12 guage
>His asshole step dad takes 1 of 2 pairs of earpro and then leaves
>Friend takes the other while i am shooting
>Fire 3 shots
>Am enlightened to the fact that shotguns are significantly louder irl than in vidya or movie
>It also kicks much harder than a .22
I went home with ringing in my ears and a bruised shoulder.

>>34529020
> be me
> 8 years old
> Shoot a shitty .410 made by sears
>Don't fall over but get a shitty bruise and a cut finger from the shit tier trigger.
>Hate guns until 12.
>Play COD 3 and Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30.
>Binge watch Iraqvetern888, Hitkok45, MAC, and old Tales of the Huns Episodes
>Become a full fledged autist and later shoot everything my Uncle has.
>Learn about Forgotten weapons binge watch his videos.
>Years later find C&resnal and watch his videos while at gym.
>Realize that most gun channels are full of hillbilly retards or fanboys who get into an autistic rage if you point out a problem in their "god-tier" rifle or handgun.
Ah well good times don't last forever I guess...

>>34562116
Sorry to hear about your dad, my dad's gone to and I cherish the 22 he gave me when I was 11. I dont fire it anymore after it phantom ND'd one time;
>cleaning the 22
> empty the cartridges from the tube magazine
> pull back the slide to eject any chambered cartridges
> no round comes out
> visually inspect chamber to look for cartridge
>no cartridge to be found
> work slide three or four more times just to be sure
> pull trigger to release pressure on the firing pin
> boom 22 sized hole in my closet door
> okay not going to shoot this one again had a similar incident when I was 13 but I chalked it up to my stupidity

>>34564133
Wait even Ian? I like to think he's the anti-hillbilly,hooah,gun nut, retard

>>34565474
No Ian is based Jesus. I would dare not mock him.

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>Grandpa comes in the living room with an SKS and says "This is what the gooks were shooting at us"

I wonder how many Americans got killed by the SKS in Vietnam.

>>34537543

Heh when my grandfather took me and my older brother to shoot guns I was playing call of duty world at war

>>34565527
none, the vietnam war is a libtard myth created to guilt us into accepting gook refugees

>>34558737
I'm sure he'd do that if any of that tripe were true.
Go on an post some /pol/ infographs about muh cultural Marxism now.

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>>34542387
Yeah. Not as much but I still pick up neat ones.

>>34531979
My dad was my only real range buddy, and we'd only ever go shooting with each other. He passed away last year, and I haven't made it out to the range yet cause I don't want to go without him.

>>34566119
You know what they say - everything is a butt plug if you try hard enough.

>>34529020
being shown at 7 years old how to assemble, load and shoot a 4 ga shotgun by my father.
I could barely lift the fucker, never mind shoot it.
I still wish that he hadn't handed it in during one of the many weapon hand ins, that the UK loves to parade around.

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>>34529020
>Raised by Marine Corps Father.
>WW2/ Korea Vet.
>Go to Ranges on USMC bases and fire M1911 .45s at 9 or 10 years old.
> Learn all about recoil.
>Join Marine Corps in 1964.
>VietNam in '65.
>Semper Fi.