Your family's attitude towards guns?

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Who taught you what you know, too?

My father knows nothing about guns, besides the little the I taught him. My mother used to be an ultra liberal gun hater, but once I took her shooting, she got hooked... ha.

My grandfather owns a military shop and started me on guns at age 11. I had about ten by age 15 and have been researching since then. 99% of my knowledge is from self teaching. The internet helps with that.

So my grandpa really convinced my parents to let me start. None of his kids took much interest. He's getting to be pretty advanced in age, so I can't have a very substantive conversation with him about guns. Still, though.

My mom's family is very liberal. Not too open to them. My dad has a smaller family who doesn't care too much about them.

Not married, don't have kids, so naturally I can't give input.
 
My family is full of former military and law enforcement. Not unusual to see half a dozen guns leaning in the corner near the front door or on night stands. You should see the house at holiday time. Looks like a gun store. As soon as I was old enough to crawl I was taught that firearms are not toys, they're made to kill. So was everyone in my family. The only one that doesn't care for them is my mom...only because she doesn't like loud noises.
 
I learned about guns from my grandfather when I was a little boy. Both sides of the family are pro-gun, and both sides hunted in the past, but had gotten out of hunting by the time I came around.

My father isn't anti-gun, in fact he's a very good shot with a rifle or pistol, but a year spent in Vietnam made firearms something he didn't really want to talk about or mess with. When I became old enough, he did allow me to buy my own firearms and even started me deer hunting, though he never fired a shot while hunting.

Everyone in my extended family is comfortable with guns, having been raised around them, they just aren't a big deal.
 
I literally had guns in my hands before I could walk..........
I have grown up with them.
My dads side is a bunch of hunters and gun nuts.
My moms side could care less about guns or hunting.
We have had several dinners eaten around a gun in pieces on the kitchen table that my grandpa was building or working on, never thought twice about it, we just didn't spill very often:D
 
I'm the sole Republican gun carrying person in my family. My brother and mom are Liberals. Most of my extended familymisnas well. They wonder where I came from?:D I'm the Conservative one that fully supports the NRA and always votes Republican. I guess I'm looked at strange cause most Hispanics are not like me. I'm the NASCAR loving gun totting black sheep of the family :D:D
 
My dads side is a bunch of hunters and gun nuts.
My moms side could care less about guns or hunting.

I think Cornbrush and I are cousins.
 
Well Daddy was a orphan, Went in the army at 17 Put 20 years in & went in Law enforcement. My brother went in service at 17 done 4 years came out
Went in Law enforcement.

Me I Hunt & shot guns sence knee high to a grasshopper, Not in Law enforcement, But love the out doors & my family ; )
Y/D
 
Guns have been an ever present part of my upbringing being exposed to them for recreational shooting, hunting and self defense. Having said that my family also has a history of firearms related misfortune as my Grandfather was killed in a fight involving guns and an Aunt was shot in the leg in a firearms related accident. My Grandmother was also rumored to come to the door with a shotgun in hand anytime after 7:00 PM so we were all cautioned to call before visiting. :eek: I have also heard any number of distressing stories which as a young person I took as family fiction, but the older I get the more I have begun to wonder.
 
My Mom and Dad both grew up on farms. Dad was a hunter (and I still drag him out every now and again) so both of my parents support guns, shooting and hunting.
 
I grew up in MA but now live in PA. Need I say more about what my family thinks?

I learned a bit in the Scouts, my leader was an old Marine. Later spent some time in the IDF and that has grown into a true love affair with military firearms.
 
Those were the days.

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Same way I learned about sex, in the streets. I do not come from a hunting or gun family. Was raised in a fairly large MidWest city and actually started running with a kid, a decendant of Devil-Ants Hatfield, that liked archery. Before long, we were making our own bows and arrows, shooting rabbits, in the snow, at night. Then threw in with some other kids that gun hunted and when one of them finally got a car, out to the country we went. Later worked for a BlackSmith that had a range on his property as well as one of the finest collection of old Winchesters and Colts. Not only did he teach me about guns, but taught me how to Make-Steel, knives, hawks and spears and real BP. .. :)

I always envied the country kids as back then, they brought their shotguns on the buss and on the way home, the driver would drop them short of their lanes and they hunted the rest of the way, home. .... :)


Be Safe !!!
 
Here's how my family feels about guns. Mom is 84 now, but back in her younger days (78 to 80), I asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She told me that she'd like a new revolver and she'd prefer stainless and in a caliber that didn't kick too much. She assured me that she wouldn't shoot Dad with it, so Santa brought her a new pistol.
 
In our family.....the more firearms the better. Family reunions are a combination of trap shooting, pistol competitions, and varmint hunting. Fall is family time for getting the kids to the woods for hunting.
 
like most I grew up with guns been shooting since I was 4 or 5 and been shooting ever since now I teach others about it and we find that most get bitten by the gun bug lol. of course I get blames for it. So you can blame my dad:D
 
Well dad was in WWII and didn't care for guns, mom hated them, older brother is a hater as well, younger brother has a good southern gal for a wife so he will be OK in time. My kids love them and so do my grand kids. My wife is now at the gun shop as often as I am need I say any more? As for me blame the Marines!:eek:
 
I literally had guns in my hands before I could walk..........
I have grown up with them.
My dads side is a bunch of hunters and gun nuts.
My moms side could care less about guns or hunting.
We have had several dinners eaten around a gun in pieces on the kitchen table that my grandpa was building or working on, never thought twice about it, we just didn't spill very often
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Moms side used to give us no end of crap concerning our firearms and hunting......but over the years they have mellowed quite a bit. Most of them still don't like (make that HATE) guns, and hunting.......but they have given up trying to force their opinions on us for the most part.

My fiance's family is quite guns friendly. Her dad is a local detective, and is into firearms almost as much as I am. My fiance was taught early how to handle firearms, and shoot them safely. The only downside is that the soon to be father-in-law got rid of his MP5 before I could shoot it........he got tired of the ammo bill :)
 
I think my father used to own a rifle but my mom made him get rid of it when my brother and I came along. I also think he may have been affiliated with the mafia; he had a lot of Italian "uncles". But that's another story. Point is, he doesn't have much problem with them.

I have a few cops in the family on my mother's side, so guns aren't exactly unfamiliar territory. Still, she was a bit apprehensive when I started bringing some revolvers home (still living with my parents). But a house down the street was broken into a few weeks ago while the neighbor was home and my mother told me, for the first time, she's glad I have a gun in the house. I don't think she realizes just how many there are though. :D
 
My family was largely indifferent toward guns. My dad died when I was 2, and left a few long guns, but the guy my mom married afterward wasn't really into them. So when the bug finally bit me in my early teens, I learned all I could from the writings of Jan Libourel, Dave Arnold, Clay Harvey, Mike Venturino, Evan Marshall, Jeff Cooper, and of course, Massad Ayoob. I read everything these gents wrote that I could get my hands on, and so by the time I finally got my first gun years later...I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing. They grounded me in the basics and I went from there. My thanks to all of them.:)
 
Family is pretty much indifferent and I found shooting on my own. I don't know any outspoken anti's although I suspect we have a few on the wife's side.

My dad grew up shooting and owned a few guns when I was too young for memories but it wasn't really talked about until I started shooting.
 
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My family is full of former military and law enforcement. Not unusual to see half a dozen guns leaning in the corner near the front door or on night stands. You should see the house at holiday time. Looks like a gun store. As soon as I was old enough to crawl I was taught that firearms are not toys, they're made to kill. So was everyone in my family. The only one that doesn't care for them is my mom...only because she doesn't like loud noises.
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You need to buy your mother a suppressed 22lr.. :D
 
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