I am so sick of it...

[SigP6Carry]

My first was an Iver Johnson Sealed 8 .22 revolver. I got a .44 Pietta 1851 at the same time. My first one I bought myself was a Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 for $80. I'm not exactly on the spoiled end of things.

 

[Dannyl]

Hi,
my first gun was an air-rifle. got it when I was 14 which is when you are allowed to get a license for one in Israel (yes, you need a license even for an air-rifle there). The same year I joined a military academy that is fairly similar to WEST POINT, and got my next one... and M16 ( a year later we were issued Galil's, this was in 1978).
off course we could only get them when we went for training exercises (otherwise they were locked in the armory), but it was quite cool to have an M16 at that age,and we did use them very often.Just as "cool" was to carry and use the LMG, which was my squad weapon. ( I was 15 when I did my first demolition course, learning how to use Explosives, with real explosives)

As a civilian, my first handgun was a Browning HP, which was my choice because it was the same handgun that I had in my service, and it made sense to me to get a firearm that I was already familiar, comfortable and profficient with.

Personally I have no problem with anyone buying whatever they can afford (as long as it is safe)

Brgds,

Danny

 

[RCarpenter]

I tell my wife the same thing when she asks me why I need more guns!

" You'll thank me when the zombies get here. Or the giant ants. I dread giant ants."

Havent got anything for em but the 35 Welan Springfield (Hope its enough)

LOL!!! Now that's funny, I don't care who ya are! Thanks for the laugh. What was that quote from?

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Well, all I can say is that these young punks think they can get a good gun by simply going to the "gun store". It is all meaningless and unimpressive unless your first gun was something you made with your own hands in your own shop. In my family, and countless thousands of others, if you wanted a gun, you got your butt out to the shop and made yourself one.

Uh...yeah, I'm quite sure everybody here did that very thing for their first.

Must be Amish.

 

[stantonizm]

I once whittled a .338 Lapua from an old pine tree. The rifling in the wooden barrel wore out pretty quick though so I sold it.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

I was the one that bought it. You didn't tell me it was shot out!

 

[StainlessButcher]

Heck, my first gun was the low end of a daisy Red Rider BB gun, followed by a Sheridan 5mm pump pellet gun (I've still got one of those) and my first ever all my own fire arm was a winchester model 42 pump shotgun in .410 gauge...which was a perfect specimen and sold for over 800 bucks a few years ago. I can relate to the OP on a humorous level though. I did have to work my way up in the world of firearms.

Butch.

 

[XD Gunner]

or can I just go ahead and buy a Glock?

First off, he said a NICE gun, so a Glock does not fit that bill.

That being said. My first gun was a Marlin 336. The first gun that I bought myself is my XD40. My jeep gun, so to speak. Neither one of my XD's are "nice, collectible, or overly high-end" They are tools.

My 1911 is turning into something nice though, and my 686 Always was

 

[JohnKSa]

I think the sarcasm in the initial post was lost on many. This was supposed to be a FUNNY thread.