POLL - Were you raised with guns

If you are pro-gun, please answer this poll

  • I was raised in a gun friendly family

    Votes: 58 64.4%

  • I was raised in an anit-gun family

    Votes: 5 5.6%

  • My upbringing was neutral concerning guns

    Votes: 27 30.0%
  • Total voters
    90
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butch50

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Just curious, and I realize this won't be scientific, but......

If you are pro-gun, were you raised in a gun friendly environment or were you raised in an anti-gun environment?

I was raised in an environment where guns were prevalent, but not given much more thought than axes or saws or any other tool. They were tools, they were to be used and cared for properly and put back where you got them.

They occasionally caused some discussion as to which was better to hunt with for a specific type of hunting, pretty much the same way you would discuss which axe to use for cedar vs oak. Basically they were in the background much the same way any uncontoversial tool is.

Thanks
Butch
 
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I really feel like I missed out sometimes. I had air weapons, but now that I'm in the US and (finances allowing) ready to start aquiring guns, I am starting from scratch with no guidance. :(
 
Chorlton youre in Tx, gunlaws are good there.

But since you didnt have the essentials in gun rules, range rules, common sense stuff you might want to buddy up with someone that frequents this forum that lives near you, you can get in alot of trouble of even shot at a range/gun shop for doing something dumb..
 
My intention is to take my wife along to a class (i want her to be able to shoot any weapon of mine). I did practise my own "range rules" with air guns (everyone is loaded always, point downrange etc), but I'm sure there are things I dont know. Its just tough being mr self sufficient in everything else, and missing out on what what everyone else take for granted.
 
My dad is pro-gun, but not very proactive about it (I don't think he has gone shooting in over ten years). My mom was very anti, but she doesn't raise a political fuss, she just refuses to be around them.
 
I think I may have missed a significant area to explore: Those who had no particular interest or training in guns until they went into the Military and then became pro-gun after the military.
 
Raised with pro-gun parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Do not even have any anti-gun aunts, uncles, cousins or in-laws.
 
About as neutral as neutral could be with my family. My dad had a bolt-action shotgun and a winchester .22 that he bought when he was my age and never really shot. They were stolen before I was old enough to shoot them though :mad:

However, I was into guns at a very young age (like 5) I had a table by my bed and on it were all manner of capguns, waterguns, dartguns, even a stick that I found that I thought looked like a gun. Even at age 6-8 I loved tales of the gun. My mom used to tke one or rearrange them on the table to see if I knew what she did........and I was able to tell her which one was missing or put them back the way they were every time :)

My dad was actually quite concerned about me knowing such things about firearms, and at one point he found it "scary".

He bought me my first bb gun (after which I aquired another pellet rifle, and 2 air pistols) This was when I went through my "rambo is cool, shoot a lot of stuff really quickly" phase and luckily I didn't cause any damage to anything other than cans or phonebooks.

And then he bought me my first .22, a ruger 10/22 (after which, I aquired 6 other firearms in less than 1 and a half years) And I'm still gettin more!

My parents are divorced but my mom is also supportive of my gun habit (she bought me a very nice marlin for christmas) thanks mom!

After my dad bought me my mosin nagant he said that it would be my last gun......that was 4 guns ago and he says it every time :D
 
My mom and dad were neutral, but my uncle hosted the country's first hunting, fishing and shooting show on TV in 1955, and he got me started shooting at around age 5. I, in turn, got my dad interested, and the rest was history. Never could get mom interested though.
 
raised very pro gun. learned to hunt and shoot through my dad, uncles and a grandfather. had a gunrack in my room by the time i was twelve with guns and ammo and nobody batted an eye . it was normal. dad took me to an nra safe hunter scholol when i was a yonker. joned the air force and they introduced me to the space gun. later went over to the feds and shot their old beat guns at fletc. took a home correspondance course on gunsmithing. have trained a couple of gals how to shoot.

but even in the deep south where i live it is sad how there are fewer and fewer gun people. g..d... media!!
 
My Dad was probably on the fence between neutral and pro gun. He never owned any firearms other than air/CO2 but alway really liked to shoot rifles when we went to camps, farms etc. where opportunities usually presented themselves. I think he never really fell right into the pro camp out of respect for my Mother. Her youngest brother, my Uncle, was killed in the 1970's in a robbery by some MF'er (I mean criminal) with a Saturday night special, so she has held a no guns attitude ever since. I guess I got my passion for firearms from my Dad's side but also from being a patriotic American and history buff. As a Christian I do apologize for my "MF" reference above. We all come short sometimes.
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I was raised in a very neutral enviroment concerning guns. My mom is between neutral and pro, and my dad between neutral and anti.

I was likerugerdude. Always had capguns, rubberband guns, and anything gun like I could play with. Then got bb rifles. Then the Marlin 22 bolt actoin rifle. Then the double barrel 20ga shotty and a 16ga. Got into the blackpower stuff at 18yo. No handguns until i turned 21. Now it's handguns whenever i can afford them.

I believe that even if my parents were anti I woulda turned out as big a gun nut as I am now.
 
i didnt have any guns when i was growing up. i had to buy all of my gun related goods myself, not that my folks were anti, they just wouldnt buy stuff for me. so while i learned to love guns, i learned how to look after money aswell. good folks, mine are
 
Pro-gun but neutral I guess (that wasn't an option on the poll).

My dad had guns, lots of them, mainly rifles and shotguns with only two pistols (his and my moms).

My family also had rules which I was to obey, and obey them I did, and the guns were not locked up and many were kept loaded.

My dad was "neutral" on the issue. He wasn't NRA or grass roots. He didn't talk soley with pro-gun types or was as hot and heavy on the issue as I am.

He didn't hunt. Guns to him was for self defense and to have in case of need only. He didn't have any "EBR's" and didn't care to have one, but he didn't feel as though others shouldn't have them either.

I had a .177 pellet gun and a .22 in my room. With ammo if the need for it should arise. I didn't shoot it without permission, the rules you know. I respected my father, so therefore I respected his rules.

12 gauge and 20 gauge as well as a 30-06 and a few other rifles in the living room closet. His S&W .38 and my moms .22 in their bedside drawers (I knew where they were because I was shown where they were).

Guns were in my home as I was growing up but they were not as big of an issue as I make them out to be as an individual (paying money to grass roots, being on the internet boards, etc..).

So, gun friendly but neutral.

Wayne
 
Not anti to the sense of going out of their way to demote guns, but not pro either, just knew they exsisted and didn't feel a reason to have them. When I was 12 I really wanted a BB gun. I know all you guys out there are going "Ha! I had a 30 06 when I was 8!" but this is Canada and it's way more ....liberal?
Anyway I got a .177 Webley Tempest break-action pistol at 12 but I could only shoot it with dad in the back yard. Under his supervision. No going out into the woods, or anything. But I never once took it without his permission and shot it anywhere, I always respected his boundaries, he was nice enough to buy me the gun so I wanted to act responsible with it.
Now, at 18 I took the Canadian PAL course, aquired my licence and am looking to get a Sig for the range. I want to get dad into guns so we can have something to do together, but he's too busy with his business and investments.
I was more into having fun, spending money, fast cars, etc.
Instead he still drives a 10 year old Buick, instead of splurging on a new car or a gun he goes and buys real estatee and invests.

Two different people.
 
LOTS of guns in my grand father's closet. Mostly double shot guns, lever rifles, and .45 long colt handguns. I still remember being allowed to LOOK, but not cross the threshold of the walkin closet. When I was a little holder, and could actually go in/fondle :) them, it was a BIG deal. No, I never crossed that line without permission!!! ARE YOU NUTS, I KNEW better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I was kind of raised in a semi-pro, semi-neutral environment. My Dad did a lot of shooting when he was younger, owned a sizeable collection, but other than the few times he's gone with me as of late I don't think he's shot a gun in almost twenty years. He got bored with it I guess and gave all his guns to his brother, except the black-powder stuff and the Uberti '66 carbine in .38 spl, which he had hung up on the walls. I remember staring at that Uberti and those Colt Navy .36's up above the fireplace as a little kid. He got scared that someone was gonna break in and steal them though so he took them down and hid them in the attic when I was about five I think, though, my Mom never had any objection to them. My Mom's does want to go shooting, but she has no objection to others doing it.

The only other gun my Dad kept was the little Ithaca 48 single shot .22, that was specifically bought by my grandfather, for me. I didn't start shooting until I was about twelve though, and my first exposure was in the Boy Scouts. My first centerfire was the Norinco SKS that my dad bought me when I was 13 or 14, can't remember. Now I'm 18 (never made Eagle Scout though) and I have a decent arsenal of my own.
 
In NYC only cops and criminals had guns.
Now my father was from Savannah GA and had won a scholarship to college in riflery. He taught me to shoot with a bolt Remington .22 and that was part of any trip to see my grandmother in Savannah. So my parents werent really anti but just didnt have much opportunity.
 
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