Were Your Parents Gunowners?
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Dad grew up hunting and shooting. After he came home from WWII, he didn't hunt anymore. But he still would take the .22 out, and I remember him shooting out the flame of a candle, just to impress us kids. His brothers would do the same thing. He'd get his friends to drag me along hunting, and I got one fine education in the woods with those fine people. The old man has been gone 35 years now, and he's still missed.
S&W645
NRA Life Member
Mom may have had the first gun in her hands just last month. She bought guns for dad but never handled or shot them. Dad was trained by the Navy with a 1911 and a 1903A3. He had had guns when growing up. My grandmother used a shotgun. My grandfather on dad's side is a ?. Great grandfather and on back owned guns all the way back to the founding of this country. My grandfather on mom's side was in WW I. Her side of the family also had guns going back to the founding of the US. Relatives on both sides were terrorist to the British in the Revolutionary War. And fought the French in the French and Indian War before that.
Warrior1256
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My Dad owned a shotgun, he was a hunter. But that's the only firearm he owned. I own a bunch of guns and he seemed confused as to why I would want them.
Peggy Reist
New member
So finish the story. What about your mother? Is she still living? In Chicago? Did she learn to use a gun?
Stengun
New member
Howdy,
I'm a farm boy from rural Arkansas where I grew up hunting and shooting.
My Dad was on a Rifle and Pistol team while he was in the Navy during the '50s and my stepdad was a FFL holder and had a FFL reloader's license.
When I was 12yo my two brothers and I was shooting tin cans with a .22 rifle and our Mom came outside a said she wanted to shoot too. We laughed because we had never seen our Mom shoot a gun except for a shotgun one time. So we loaded the gun, a Remington Nylon 66 and our Mom hit a can with every shot. We were shocked! She looked at us and said "I grew up on a farm. I know how to shoot. I grew up hunting with my Dad." and turned around and went back in the house.
Paul
I'm a farm boy from rural Arkansas where I grew up hunting and shooting.
My Dad was on a Rifle and Pistol team while he was in the Navy during the '50s and my stepdad was a FFL holder and had a FFL reloader's license.
When I was 12yo my two brothers and I was shooting tin cans with a .22 rifle and our Mom came outside a said she wanted to shoot too. We laughed because we had never seen our Mom shoot a gun except for a shotgun one time. So we loaded the gun, a Remington Nylon 66 and our Mom hit a can with every shot. We were shocked! She looked at us and said "I grew up on a farm. I know how to shoot. I grew up hunting with my Dad." and turned around and went back in the house.
Paul
In the 1950's I went shooting quite often with my father. Numerous weapons for sure! It is where I also learned to not hold a semi auto pistol to close to my face. My father was army and he had the real deal 1911 45 military issue. I was holding this thing in my pudgy little hands when I was drawing it closer to my eye so I could see the sights better. Good thing dad was watching and supervising lest I become very short sighted!
Hell...I didn't even know there was such a thing s an FFL in the 50's
S&W645
NRA Life Member
1938 was when they came in but nothing like what we have today.
CapGun
Active member
Nice to see so many of you have fond memories of your parents and a lot of it had to do with the shooting sports, hunting etc.
My parents did not have guns. For what ever reason the subject never did come up. They did allow me to have a Daisey BB gun at an early age,
maybe around 10. I could shoot in in our back yard and never had the desire to see what it would do to a neighbors window. I liked my butt at normal temps.
They also got me a bow. I wonder how many of you had a green fiberglass bow, 25 lb. pull. Pretty sure that was more dangerous then a BB gun.
Owning a gun just never entered my mind. Maybe because I grew up in NY suburbia. Even after I got married and still lived in the area I had good reason to acquire a gun it again never entered my mind. I guess subtle brainwashing.
When I moved to where I live now I heard you could buy a gun and wear it openly without a permit. Thinking "Wow how about that".
Still no desire for a gun. I always thought that if I wanted or needed one I would just go out and buy one.
Then William Jefferson Clinton...... what??? If I wanted a gun I would have to wait three days and one of the new most popular guns might be "blacklisted". That convinced me to go out and get what they didn't want me to have. Up to this point the most powerful thing I shot was a friend of my Father's .22 pellet gun when I was 10. So I went and purchased a Glock 17. Thank you Billary.
I shot it for about a month then put it under my wife's dresser.
Fast forward to the Presidential Primaries and it looked like B Hussein might just take it all. I reached under the dresser and pulled out the brown paper bag, blew the dust off and opened the Glock case. From then on I realized how important the Second Amendment is and how we were losing out Liberties! From then on it was buy what they want to take away. So I bought one of those scary black guns! Don't remember what I bought next but I remember going to buy a safe. They were actually hard to come by. I knew that the two main things you put in safes were guns and gold. Something was up for sure. One guy at a gun store told me to make sure I bought a big enough safe. I laughed to myself thinking even though the safe I have in mind is one of the smaller ones he has no idea how many guns it holds. How big a safe do you need and how many guns.
Well if any of you come across a great sale on a very good large safe let me know!
Now the criteria for what I buy isn't just what "they" want to take away. Much more goes into the decision now.
I have to thank BH O'Bama for making me much more aware. NRA Life Member, GOA life member. and SRO. Nothing like the credentials that so many of the members have here but I thought you might get a kick of my metamorphosis. BTW is was never anti-gun. Just ignorant.
My parents did not have guns. For what ever reason the subject never did come up. They did allow me to have a Daisey BB gun at an early age,
maybe around 10. I could shoot in in our back yard and never had the desire to see what it would do to a neighbors window. I liked my butt at normal temps.
They also got me a bow. I wonder how many of you had a green fiberglass bow, 25 lb. pull. Pretty sure that was more dangerous then a BB gun.
Owning a gun just never entered my mind. Maybe because I grew up in NY suburbia. Even after I got married and still lived in the area I had good reason to acquire a gun it again never entered my mind. I guess subtle brainwashing.
When I moved to where I live now I heard you could buy a gun and wear it openly without a permit. Thinking "Wow how about that".
Still no desire for a gun. I always thought that if I wanted or needed one I would just go out and buy one.
Then William Jefferson Clinton...... what??? If I wanted a gun I would have to wait three days and one of the new most popular guns might be "blacklisted". That convinced me to go out and get what they didn't want me to have. Up to this point the most powerful thing I shot was a friend of my Father's .22 pellet gun when I was 10. So I went and purchased a Glock 17. Thank you Billary.
I shot it for about a month then put it under my wife's dresser.
Fast forward to the Presidential Primaries and it looked like B Hussein might just take it all. I reached under the dresser and pulled out the brown paper bag, blew the dust off and opened the Glock case. From then on I realized how important the Second Amendment is and how we were losing out Liberties! From then on it was buy what they want to take away. So I bought one of those scary black guns! Don't remember what I bought next but I remember going to buy a safe. They were actually hard to come by. I knew that the two main things you put in safes were guns and gold. Something was up for sure. One guy at a gun store told me to make sure I bought a big enough safe. I laughed to myself thinking even though the safe I have in mind is one of the smaller ones he has no idea how many guns it holds. How big a safe do you need and how many guns.
Well if any of you come across a great sale on a very good large safe let me know!
Now the criteria for what I buy isn't just what "they" want to take away. Much more goes into the decision now.
I have to thank BH O'Bama for making me much more aware. NRA Life Member, GOA life member. and SRO. Nothing like the credentials that so many of the members have here but I thought you might get a kick of my metamorphosis. BTW is was never anti-gun. Just ignorant.
Coyote Blue
New member
So many fine stories and memories! Thank you all very much.
Deanimator
New member
She was living with her sister until the sister got Alzheimers. She moved out to the suburbs and admits to hating to visit Chicago anymore.
As to her learning to use a gun? Who knows? Until recently, she couldn't carry one, and I expect that Joe Biden will say something intelligent before she gets an Illinois concealed carry credential.
She tried to talk me out of carrying here. I just asked her, "So you're willing to move to Ohio and act as a human shield for me?" That was the end of her trying to get me not to carry.
Peggy Reist
New member
So would she move to Ohio? If she doesn't like Chicago, is there anything keeping her there? I'm all in favor of people moving out of Chicago (and suburbs). At least she'd be safer in Ohio even if she chose not to get a permit.
My dad owned guns and shot recreationally, but seldom hunted. My mom's family was involved in one of the pacifist churches but she would shoot once in a while after she was married. I spent many happy hours with him wandering the countryside, plinking at inanimate targets of opportunity. I actually got away from shooting for 20 years or so - but I kept our guns - when I moved away from areas with wide open spaces and was forced to do my shooting at ranges. I finally decided that I wanted to shoot bad enough to put up with the (necessary) regimentation of the shooting range.
mwhals
Member
Dad had the following and still has some of them:
30.06 rifle
12 gauge shotgun
.357 pistol
.22 pistol
.22 rifle
.44 pistol
30-30 rifle
.45 pistol in stainless steel that is my favorite.
When I was around 10 years old, dad let me sit at a table at the firing range. I then was permitted to shoot the 30.06 rifle. I remember holding it tight against my arm as he instructed. When I shot it, my butt moved a good 6 inches back on the bench seat and I remember us laughing about it.
Dad used to reload his own ammo, but no longer practices that.
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30.06 rifle
12 gauge shotgun
.357 pistol
.22 pistol
.22 rifle
.44 pistol
30-30 rifle
.45 pistol in stainless steel that is my favorite.
When I was around 10 years old, dad let me sit at a table at the firing range. I then was permitted to shoot the 30.06 rifle. I remember holding it tight against my arm as he instructed. When I shot it, my butt moved a good 6 inches back on the bench seat and I remember us laughing about it.
Dad used to reload his own ammo, but no longer practices that.
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