What Was Your First Firearm?

[jmzhwells]

10/22 about 14 years ago. Still have it. My first that was "mine" was a rem. fieldmaster pump .22 owned by my father. Then it stopped ejecting so I spent my own cash for the 10/22.

[rabagley]

Glock 17 I bought at the age of 21.

[The Gleam]

The question I would like to then ask to those replying is:

"Do you still own that firearm?"

For me, yes on both:

First long-gun: Mossberg 500 Cruiser.
First handgun: H&K VP70z

[SureShot241]

Mine was practically the same thing, but with a wood stock. AWESOME rifle. I'll never sell it. Pretty dang accurate too, especially for the $150 something bucks I bought it for :-D

Mine is super accurate! The groupings at 100 yards are crazy for such a small round. The Marlin bolt .22's are freaken tack drivers

The question I would like to then ask to those replying is:

"Do you still own that firearm?"

For me, yes on both:

First long-gun: Mossberg 500 Cruiser.
First handgun: H&K VP70z

I was wanting to add that. I am interested to see of people still have them

[ConfucianScholar]

I know some won't believe it but my very first "gun" was a flame thrower my dad got me when I was in grade school. It was a model intended for burning piles of trash (which was legal to do back in the 70's) his business had upgraded to a different system to burn trash and I was the lucky recipient of the surplus flame thrower.

[kylemurdoc]

Single shot bolt action Daisy 22. I was elementary school age.

[Shotgun Willie]

To shoot: M16A1, USAF basic training, 1973.

To own: S&W M10 1975

[Shotgun Willie]

I know some won't believe it but my very first "gun" was a flame thrower my dad got me when I was in grade school. It was a model intended for burning piles of trash (which was legal to do back in the 70's) his business had upgraded to a different system to burn trash and I was the lucky recipient of the surplus flame thrower.

YAY DAD!

[Arondos]

if you count BB guns it was a daisy, single cock lever action. You could shoot your hand and the BB would bounce off. I shot thousands of BB's into a box stuffed with newspapers in our basement.

After a few years I moved up to my first real firearm a 16 gauge Montgomery Ward Western Field pump shotgun. Killed a lot of cottontail rabbits with that weapon.

[CrossedRifles]

LWRC M6A3

[adrenaline]

My family has always been anti-gun until I decided to just get one firearm. Every since I was little, I would try things my parents themselves wouldn't want me doing. This was one of my lil' rebellions.

At first, I said...I'm going to buy one just to see what gun ownership is like....so was going to buy the one gun I'd have forever kind of thing.

H&K Fullsize USP 9mm


Since then, I've acquired more (and will never sell my first)....it is like telling a kid, "You can have one toy....for the rest of your life....just one."

When anti-gun folk ask me about firearms, I tell em that I was once an anti. Till I tried it...and then I describe it as taking the red-pill in the Matrix.

For those who haven't seen the Matrix .

You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. -Morpheus

[yellowsulphur]

Lee Enfield No. 5 Mk I, jungle carbine. It was a Korean Conflict bring back from my grandfather. As a kid I'd run around pretending I was some bad *** British paratrooper. Sadly it was "lost" at a relatives house. The HK .45 USP full size was the first gun I bought.

[TheExpertish]

...
H&K Fullsize USP 9mm..

H&K USP40 was my first.

[Dutch3]

Winchester Model 37 16 ga shotgun. I wish I still had it.

[AR15Kimo]

Mossberg 500

Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk