How Old Are Americans When They Get Their First Gun?

I lie on any survey about firearms or Constitutional Rights or politics.
That’s a lie. They NEVER contact me for a survey.

In my house…..10!

I mean, is “your own gun” the first gun you bought as an adult? Because if I wanted a gun that wasn’t the 06 Winchester we kept for pests, I sure as heck had to pay for it myself, even if Dad did the transaction. I remember working a whole summer to buy a H&R M12 trainer back in the 70s.

It’s been a while, but I think I discharged my first firearm when I was about six. I owned, as opposed to loand, a firearm when I was about ten. Never looked back.

I live on the other side of the pond in the UK I am now in my early 80’s. I joined the Local Army Cadet Force at the age of 14 and almost immediately startedvtraining on the LEE ENFIELD .303 SMLE and thge BREN .303 LMG. By the time I was 16 I had passed the UK TRAINED INFANTRY MARKSMAN STANDARD, which as you may know is among the highest of any armed forces, in both weapons and had range fired both the 9mm STEN and the ENFIELFD .45 Revolver and ‘dry-fired both the 2.5 Inch Mortar and the PIAT. At 16 I joined the Royal Air Force as an AIRCRAFT Fitter [Armourer Bombs and Guns] Apprentice. I spent several years as an Armourer and Smallarms Instructor and later servuied as trained Infantry in the UK Army Reserves so I am more than a little familiiar with weaponry. Since leaving bthe UK Armed Forces with th exception of some SKEET shooting and .22 Indoor Target 25yard shooting I have never had the need or the wish to own or use a firearm for any purpose and I do not know anybody else who does either withn the possible exception of 12 gauge useage. .
If you conducted a survey in the UK about GUN OWNERSHIP most of the population would not understand whatvthe hell you werfe talking about.
Without exception ALL the restrictions on GUN OWNERSHIP in the UK has had the overwhelming approval of the electorate. I cannot think of a single person, even those who do have permission [one of my distant nephews does have a STALKERS LICENSE for DEER] to own and use firearms, who sees such restrictions as somehow being a limitation on their PERSONAL FREEDOMS.

Since it’s easier to get a gun than formula, according to Joe Biden…32 months old is the average age of the first firearm purchase and since according to Old Pedo Joe firearms are the #1 cause of death of children in this country it just makes sense…

Does a BB gun count? I guess I was 9. My first .22 single shot was a private sale, neighbor kid got an automagic, and he sold me his single shot for $20. My first deer rifle from the sporting goods store at age 15 – $75 for a brand new Remington 94. My first pistol at age 23, purchased at a hardware store for fun – can’t remember what the little .380 cost me, but it wasn’t much. Of course, I had other guns to use, any time I wanted to use one. Almost free access to a 30-06 around age 13, multiple shotguns around age 12. There were some, but few restrictions on the use of Dad’s guns.

Gadsden Flag’s post reminds me of the very first time I fired any weapons. I was either 4 or 5 years old, Dad and a friend were doing some target shooting with a .22 rifle and a .25 pistol. I was permitted to fire both. WHEEEE! That was fun!

I’ve never not owned a gun. As a baby, my family stored my Winchester 94 under my crib. I still have it, still hunt with it. It’s over a century old now. I think I got my first revolver at 15 or so. It was a 7.5″ Ruger Blackhawk in .357 Magnum. I don’t have that gun anymore but I have another just like it.

Lies. The answer is 42. That’s the answer to everything.

I married into my first guns. My wife was the original gun nut. She had several handguns and a rifle. After I retired from the military we went to the gun store where I bought my first gun. I was 43 years old.
Now I pretty much have taken over our guns. And have purchased a combination of about 20 handguns and long guns.

She does encourage me!!!
big(smile)

I may be a late bloomer about owning guns. But I always knew what the second amendment was for. And it’s not about hunting.

I “purchased” my first gun at 11, though technically family members purchase for me, since the FFL guys wouldn’t sell it to me. I made multiple purchases via the legal “family” straw purchase method until I was 18, and had even acquired a few via the birthday/Christmas/special events as gifts before I was 18.

Interestingly, and purely by luck, have I managed to avoid the FFL’s Future Gun Confiscation Itemized lists, colloquially Form 4473 because once I turned 18, I didn’t have the disposable money to buy new and shiny….. and now I avoid the FFL’s and only do private sale to keep my personal property off of these government confiscation lists; can’t verify and validate the confiscation lists, if they don’t have the self-reported confiscation lists .

40 years later, and still not a single 4473 filled out in my name, and those from family when I was under 18 were all legal straw purchased or through private sales. So out of pure luck none of my guns have ever been listed on the FFL’s future confiscation lists for the government oath-violators.

For the few old timer family members that are still alive 40 years later, the paperwork probably is missing on who they “sold” it to, and the ones who are no longer around, definitely don’t have any paperwork who they “gave/sold” it to, it never even went home with them for the wife/kids to know the gun even existed, we’d go to the range for the day with the new gun and they’d drop me off at home with my now 100-300 rounds tested firearms.

I feel bad for the kids now-a-days as this type of purchasing is getting harder to keep under wraps and avoid the government agent FFL’s confiscation lists.

I traded a throwing knife for my first gun at 12. Carried it to my very violent school until I traded it off.

I think I was about four years old.

I purchased my own, first gun at the tender age of 60 (2012).

My Mom hated guns so Dad did not push that very far. When some of us kids would go off camping with Dad (she also hated camping, how handy was that!) he’d always bring along his ancient old .22 bolt action single shot (had to cock it each round, which took a fairly strong hand). I think I fired my first few shots at about six, when we were visiting some of Dad’s side of the clam in rural open lands. First fired a twelve bore pump at about twelve. I thought that one was FUN. Got pretty good at busting up those orange discs as Uncle flang them accross the desert for me. Then my little sister (1 year younger) said MY TURN. She missed almost all of them. So Uncle gave Dad the flinger and HE picked up his scoped M1906 bolt gun, the one he brought back from the War in the Pacific. (he’d been sniper there..) and made a hunting stock for out of one of the trees on the farm that blew down. As Dad flung the pigeons, and Sister missed, Uncle would pick them off as they flew away. VERY impressive when they exploded, I had NO idea how difficult that would be. UNcle was on her right, Dad was flining to her left. He had to wait till she had missed before he’d fire. He got almost every one after she’d missed, too.
I bought my first long gun at 18, walked into a gun store in my Grandparent’s smallish town, picked one out, bought it. Cash on the table, Never even asked my name or date of birth, or even what state I lived in. Totally legal.

I had to sell off a bunch of stuff when I fell on hard times some years back, before my statid stupe decided we had to tell Uncle about every gun we buy or sell, and fill out forms.so HE can have an inventory of what I have. SO I have no idea where they ended up. Some were on some of the online boards, sent to FFL’s in other states, but I’ve no record of that. Private sales before they got shut down worked too. So I don’t know what I had that went where. Too bad so sad. Even the ones I sold face to face through an FFL I question whether those can really be traced until THEY get their complete searchable database set up and populated. SO if they come round asking me about THIS ONE I probably cannot help them at all. Went away some years back, no record of where. Dont eve remember what year I offed that one, either.

I do know a young man who, when he was eleven, fired an M1 Garand for the first time He nearly broke his face, he was grinning so hard. DAD, I WANT ONE!!!! then big sister tried it, then Mum. Dad shrugged his shoulders and delclared “well I guess we’ll be getting hold of CMP here in the next few days. He did and they did. the family now own four very fine Garands in 7.6 x 59. The boy got into competition shooting at 13, joined the club’s rifle team and competed at 15. He did VERY well, helping the club win some matches.

Excluding toys, my first firearm was a loaner from the American Taxpayer ~20y/o. Excluding that, I bought my first rifle sometime around 23 but couldn’t take possession / finish the transfer until several months later when I went home on leave. My dealer kept it under lock and key for me. It has long since been sold off.

Raised around shotguns, rifles & handguns.
Trained withM16, M60, LAW & hand grenades &
M203.
Bought my first hand gun when I was sixty,
Thanks BLM!

I like that the question asked is about “acquiring” one’s first gun. So the gangsta banger can say “I been carrying one for da boyz since I been 11.”

Of course, I doubt they actually went into da hood to ax anybody.

Bought a WW2 souvenir model 1910 from a veteran when I was 15. I found out after this wasn’t permitted so I left it with my friend’s Father. Also a veteran.

We too had family guns, and fishing poles, and I’ve had one or the other in hand for as far back as my memory goes. When my grandparents downsized from a farm to a mobile home and RV, Grandpa handed around a couple pistols to family, and moved the gun cabinet and remaining contents to our house. He had a nice collection of WW2 bringbacks, three of which I have, with two more promised to me by an aunt. My first actual firearm purchase was a Hawken kit at age 18, because we didn’t have a muzzleloader, and then the Contender at age 21, because I wanted a hunting handgun, with additional barrels soon to follow. As it was prior to the boating accident, I’d have to take my shoes off, plus the wife’s and daughter’s, to have sufficient fingers and toes to number the collection. May have needed some of Mom’s too, thinking about it.

What is the average age of the school shooters? I bet it’s under 21. Clearly they got their first gun while in high school, if not before.

Just saying

First gun was a single shot .22 hand-me-down from Grandpa at about 11 yo. Bought a new single shot 20 gauge when I was 17 I think, from Western Auto. Yeah, that was before the GCA.

I was ten.

1962 , AGE 13 , SINGLE SHOT 22LR RIFLE , WAS ABLE TO USE AS PARENT / SUPERVISED SISTER , SAID YES OR NO WHEN N WHERE COULD USE IT .
DO YOUR CHORES AND FLY RIGHT AND I COULD USE IT .
MISBEHAVE AND NO GO ON ABLE TO USE IT .

THANKS MOM , AND ALSO OLDER SISTER . TAUGHT ME ALOT .

Started shooting a .22 with my dad at 5 or 6. Got my first .22 at 9 and my first .410 at 13. Bought my first rifle in ’73 at 15 years old with my own money. It was a Marlin 336 30 30 from Western Auto.

Got the use of under supervision of an old Sears .22 rifle at age 8. Was given a Marlin/Glenfield .22 of my own at age 10. Purchased my own with my own money at 16. A second/third/who knows, hand Winchester Model 94 30-30. Had used Dad’s Mauser M98 as a deer rifle at 14.
Still have the Marlin and the Mauser. Traded the 30-30 off on a Ruger 44 Carbine.

7 for the .22 my father bought me at Western Auto. It was kept in my room and I was responsible for it. First thing he taught was safety and maintenance. My Drill Sgts were easier to please for maintenance.

I got my first gunm the day momma got outta prison.
It was raining.

I was a late starter, age 26.

It was a stainless Mini-14 Ranch Rifle with one of those ‘sterile’ folding stocks they used on the .556.

Neatest part of that gun was that the last 3 digits of the serial number were .223…

Ten years old. Was,shooting and hunting before that. First was a single shot, breakovver 410.

I fired my first gun when I was 5 years old. My dad took me out into the woods behind our house, we sat down at the base of a big tree in the shade, he took a bolt action .22 out of the case he was carrying and started teaching me about it, then handed it to me, instructed me, and I pulled the trigger for the first time. I didn’t know at the time that was going to be my first rifle.

A lot of kids where I lived then, starting around age 6, could be seen toting their .22 bolt action rifles into the woods to favorite shooting spots to plink cans or shoot targets, and do a little hunting with bagging a rabbit or squirrel. I was no different and at age 6 I joined them. A little later I got a semi-auto .22 and became the areas most popular kid among us gun kids because I was the only one to have a semi-auto and all the other kids wanted to shoot it.

No one got shot, we all knew the rules and the safety aspects and were suitably trained and instructed, never had a problem with the sheriff showing up to take our guns away (in fact if they did happen by on patrol and saw us they wanted to try out our rifles and provided even more instruction and safety reminders). If you got a new gun, you could bring it to school for ‘show-n-tell’ and let the other kids turn green with envy. We had gun safety and training classes in our school, every Wednesday at PE instead of dodge ball or some other activity we had gun day with an instructor and got to do a little target practice behind the school with supplied bolt action .22’s.

Then when I was 10, by then most of the kids by then in our circle of gun kids had gotten semi-auto 22’s. But something more significant happened when I was 10… one of the kids in my circle, his dad died of cancer. A while after his dad died, one night a man broke into their house and attacked his mom and Leon used his .22 semi-auto rifle to shoot and kill the intruder and save his moms life. This was a significant point in time for all of us gun kids, its when we realized the first time there really are monsters in this world and if you are not prepared to defeat them yourself they will hurt and kill you.

Today the anti-gun industry want the monsters to win.

Why does Italy have less gun violence???? The reasons may surprise you.

Italy does have tough gun laws but they also are a socialistic country

A social safety net

After 12 years of living in Italy, I can definitely say that the country has its flaws. But one thing Italy has going for it is a fairly broad and dense social safety net, which takes care of its most vulnerable citizens. We have a national healthcare system that, while imperfect, ensures that people receive medical attention, including for mental health disorders and needed medications—largely free of charge. (Critics of universal healthcare will argue that we pay higher taxes, and we do. But we don’t pay for private health insurance, and no one sacrifices treatment, loses their home, or goes bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills.)

Studies have established a link between social welfare programs and reductions in violence, perhaps because when people’s most basic needs of shelter, healthcare, and sustenance are met, they are less prone to violence. In Italy, the national healthcare system—combined with rigid protocols for gun ownership—make it less likely that violent or mentally disturbed people will fall through the cracks or get their hands on guns.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/italy-has-a-gun-culture-but-no-mass-shootings-here-s-why/ar-AAXXkLU?cvid=27193c4f05344fb1aa987f92f2c90d68

IF the prohibition of people under 21 passes this is the type of gun control I suggest..
NO ONE under the age of 21 volunteer to place a government issued weapon in their hands to go fight globalist wars, to make them richer…Its mighty funny they trust an 18 year old to go to foreign lands to kill and die, at the whim of a politician…Also, if they wait till they turn 21, they can drink a beer when they choose to do so..That way pesky officers and anal NCOs don’t treat them like children and send them to N.J.P…Then, the Globalist and military industrial complex would panic, when their riches start waning…They desperately need young cannon fodder…When the money starts disappearing, they will pay a judge or court to strike it down, to get things back to normal..

I was 13 years old when I bought my first gun with my own money.

Now don’t get excited. Technically speaking, one of my parents bought it. When I completed an NRA Hunter Safety Course, I was allowed to have my first gun. It was a Ruger 10/22, paid $49 for it brand spanking new at Jensen’s Custom Ammunition in Tucson, AZ.

I wanted the Remington Nylon 66 more but it was constantly selling out the day they’d come in. The Ruger 10/22 was a lucky choice, still have that gun and still shoot it. Beat up from mountain trails, backpacking. Countless thousands of rounds fired thru it. Still works great!

So, yeah, 13 years old. Next gun was a shotgun at 19. First revolver at 21. Was about 25 I think for my S&W model 59.

That about covers it.

First shots around 5 YO.
First rifle (22lr – still have it) for birthday @ 7 YO.
First shotgun (20 ga. – still have it) for birthday @ 9 YO.
First handgun (22lr – still have it) for birthday @ 16 YO.
First self-purchased firearm (38/357 – long gone now) @ 18 YO.
Steady upwards progression since – now 70 YO.
I think I’m gonna start slowing down soon.

I was 14 yrs old. My Dad bought me a JC Higgins .410 ga Shotgun. Got my first pheasant with that gun.

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