How old and which one.....

[Annihilator]

When you went out to buy your first firearm, how old were you and what did you purchase? I was 21, went and bought a used S&W model 66 with the 4” barrel and 2 boxes of ammo. About a week later I bought a new S&W model 17 with the 6” barrel. Kept both of these for years, then eventually traded them off for other firearms.

 

[HansGruber]

I was 13 or 14; I bought a Remington Nylon 67 (or maybe it was a 10C) .22 from a local hardware store (my dad did the paperwork, but the money came out of my wallet).

$45.

Traded it a year or so later for a bolt action Marlin 25 that I still have, at the same store. Missed that Remington, though...replaced it a few years ago with a 10C, cost me $300...

 

[Keystone19250]

54 years old and purchased a S&W 40 Shield Then down the rabbit hole I went with Springfield handguns. Had 7 handguns at one time now down to 3.

 

[BET7]

56 years of age in 2012 (started late, just let's say Beer got in the way ). Went to Cabelas and bought a Bushmaster XM-15 ORC and a S&W M&P 9mm pistol. Paid a premium for the Bushmaster, as talk of AR bans were similar as they are today.
Note: I'm not counting a single shot Crossman pump pellet pistol that my father had to get the permit for and we bought when I was a teenager (yes, even back then in NJ, a pistol permit with two references was required to purchase a pellet/bb gun as they were considered legitimate pistol firearms. Man, I'm glad I'm no longer living in that State)

 

[papa]

I was 17 and bought a Winchester model 1400 shotgun 12 ga. Kept it a few years and traded it in on my first handgun , a blued Ruger Security-Six .357 with 4 inch BBL.

 

[chrisjohnson65]

I think I was around 12 years old. My dad bought (paperwork wise) me a Marlin bolt action .22 from the local hardware store. Maybe at 13 or 14, my dad did the same for a 20 gauge Savage pump shotgun. Still have both to this day, and I'm 55. The first firearm I bought on my own, as an adult, was my Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 mag. I bought that in the mid '80s, while in the Army. Still have that one also.

 

[jmcd]

About 10 and bought this with hard earned allowance.

Seriously, at 16 I bought a Crossman pellet gun that I needed a firearms identification card to own.
At 21. I bought my first pistol, a Helwan Brigadier. The electronic skeet game was more reliable.

 

[wmg1299]

I was 28 years old and had just started the police academy. The department Rangemaster took a group order for the class. We all bought Glock 27's as our backup/off-duty weapons because we were issued Glock 22's and wanted magazine compatibility.

 

[10mmLife]

I picked up a Remington 870 express super magnum for my first purchase at 18 years old then I bought a Ruger 10/22 Stainless with the gray birch laminate stock a few weeks later.

 

[Annihilator]

I picked up a Remington 870 express super magnum for my first purchase at 18 years old then I bought a Ruger 10/22 Stainless with the gray birch laminate stock a few weeks later.

When ya get your first “yeet cannon”?....

 

[KillerFord1977]

Dad had me use his guns since I was 8 yrs old.

at 21 yrs old I bought a Hi Power and a Sig 228 on the same day. Couldn't decide which I liked better, so got them both. Oh to be Single again ....

 

[TidalWave]

My first gun purchase - solo - was also a Hi Power. Age about 25.

Dad bought me a little .410ga when I was somewheres around 10-11. Graduated to his pump gun a couple yrs later, and we always had .22 rifles around - we leaned twds small game “for the pot” then. Quail, rabbit etc. Oddly, there weren’t nearly as many deer around then as now, and the woods full of hunters we didn’t know worried Dad a bit.

 

[dbarnes42]

I bought my first gun at 51, a SA Loaded 1911 chambered in .45ACP. My wife was 49 and she got the same gun.

 

[OkiePewPew]

35y XDS 9. Before that I was shooting my dad’s XDM 40 and PT111 Pro which eventually got return for defect exchanged for a G2 and down the Springfield rabbit hole from there.

 

[Bassbob]

Break action shotguns at about 9 and about 12, 1894 30-30 at 12 and the old man gave me a Colt .25 and a 1911 when I was 15 or 16.

I personally bought my first legal handgun at 21. It was a Russian Makarov in .380.

 

[benstt]

The first one I bought solo was a Browning A-Bolt II in .30-06 with a Leopold VX-II 3x9 at 18. My first ever was an 870 Express 12 gauge at 12. My dad bought it for me.

 

[Recusant]

Dad took me up to Potomac Arms which was the retail store for Hunters Lodge located at Zero Prince Street in Alexandria, Va. Hunters Lodge was part of International Armament Corporation. The occasion was my 16th birthday, and I had enough cash to buy a WWII K98. They didn't have a decent K98 in the store, so the salesman took us across the street to a huge warehouse where there were more cases of guns stacked to the ceiling than I could count. The gentleman took a crowbar and pried open a case. Out came a rifle covered in cosmoline. It was a 1938 S/42; all matching. I got the rifle, a sling, and a bayonet for $36.90 + $1.10 for tax. In retrospect I'm sorry I didn't get to meet Sam Cummings or gotten dad to buy the whole case!

 

[Lock n' Load]

At age 18, Dad bought me a Remington 700 as a high school graduation present. Less than a year later, I bought a Remington 870 Wingmaster with an Improved Cylinder barrel. Still have and shoot both as they are as accurate as they were in the late 1960's. Both still look good too as I always followed Dad's advice on cleaning and maintenance.

 

[C. Sumpin]

One day at the dinner table before we started eating, Dad pulled out a wad of cash bigger than I had ever seen before. He proceeded to count out equal piles for me and my older sister. It was for the "runt" pigs we had saved and raised ourselves in a small pen I had built in the corner of the windbreak. He had sent them to market included in the last load and I had forgotten about it; he now surprised us with a reward for work. Don't recall the exact amount but it approached five hundred dollars. My own money. WOW. Could save it or spend it as we liked. Few days later he took me to the small Sporting goods store in town where I picked out a clip fed Winchester .22, around $89 as I recall, no paperwork, no nothing but the money changing hands. Got a few boxes of ammo. Went all about the farm and woods with it, never instructed with it, kept it in my BR closet, used it anytime I wanted. Shoot the eyes out of a snake with it.
Marvin, my best friend on the farm to the east had a bolt action .22, I'd shoot the mud beside a bullfrog sending it airborne then we'd both shoot ( and often enough, score a hit ) in the air. One day I took aim at the arrow tip on the weather vane on the lighting rod on the barn roof to watch it spin; but it did not spin, just broke off! Put many a round through it over many years. Don't recall what I happened to it. Was nine years old when I bought it.

 

[papadan]

Little late to this party, I'm back in the hospital with Kidney failure. I grew up with BB guns and on my 18th birthday, I went to JC Penny's and bought myself a browning BL 22. Still have it and my old BB guns.