Who had guns as kids (under 18) and what kind?

A Daisy BB gun.

My friend had a .22 rifle. We were out in the woods with his dad. He had set up a pop bottle a ways away and challenged us to shoot the top of it off. My friend shot first and missed. Then his dad shot, and he missed. Then I shot and hit it in the top, just below where it's swelled out to accommodate the bottle cap. It was the first shot I ever took with an actual firearm.

 

América ?
More Anti America hate rhetoric ?

Many Countries, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, allowed 10 year olds to hunt fowl with a Double barreled 20 gage shotgun, 40 years ago.

 

Is that not a personal matter ?

 

Most if not all bots and trolls don't have an avatar.

So it is wise to have one yourself if you are not a bot or troll.

 

I've got you on the alcohol though.

When I was newborn my parents fed me beer.

They said I liked it more than milk and it quieted me down and made me sleep.

That is a German thing.

 

Today I like milk more than beer however.

And tequila is my drink of choice, besides milk and orange juice.

 

I always had a flask of Brandy for medicinal purposes, and wee drop of Brandy or Whiskey was not amiss.

 

And what does any of that have to do with ordinary citizens keeping guns in their homes?

 

Ignore lists. Hmph. Feeble.

 

Let's read that again. 40 years ago.

 

You should do more ignoring. Paranoia works better when you have your eyes shut

 

Yes, I know, I was there.
Ever so much fun to be had.

 

.22 pistol and rifle, about 12 / 13.

 

12 or 13 rifles and pistols sounds like a fairly good amount of guns.

 

I studied the American Constitution when young and in school... it made sense to me, particularly when witnessing the trampling of human rights of the British Government against its own, practices denied by the Brits and generally overlooked by Americans.
Many here, seem to not appreciate underlying principles of the Constitution and take their rights for granted while those rights are being slowly eroded.

 

I have been told truly horrifying accounts over pints of Guinness and whiskey chasers, the atrocities and horrors committed by British Soldiers against people, " iliterate bustard bully boys" my grandfather called them, he was from Dublin.
I could not repeat thosse accounts here.
Rapes of children street executions etc..

 

15. All old/worn.
Llama 45acp cheap1911 clone
Rossi chrome stubnose .357
Blackhawk single action .44 mag
Savage pre-serial number 12 gauge pump
Knickerbocker brand old sawed off double barrel 12 gauge
Remington Woodman semi-auto 30.06

 

At 12, bought a .22/.410 over/under with my own money. At 14 got a Daisy double barreled BB gun. In warm weather there were few days I didn't take it out. In better shape it would be worth a lot to a collector.

 

Impressive

 

Had a Crossman bb / pellet rifle at about 6 years old. Spent a couple of months doing safety and dry fire drills before I fired it.

I received a .22 rifle from my dad at 9. That fall, I started squirrel hunting.

Then I got a .270 and a 20 gauge at 13, and started deer and grouse hunting that fall.

By 18, a 12 gauge and a .30-06 had been added.

I still own them all, and my son started shooting the .22 at 9.

So I had 5 guns before 18. I'm 44 now.

 

I bought a Nylon 66 (.22 semi-automatic with 14 round tubular magazine) when I was 14. I pretty much had access to all of my father's guns at that age, including 9mm semi-automatics, .357 magnum revolvers, semi-auto shotgun, a .22/20 gauge Over/under, several other .22 rifles, and a 20-gauge double, as well as a couple of .22 pistols.

Edit: also had a bb gun from about age 8 on, and bought a pellet gun at 13, a bb/pellet pistol at 13, and a high powered pellet pistol (pump) at 15.

 

While it was a foolish thing to do, based on silly motives, there was nothing illegal about it. The easier thing to do (and just as safe) would have been to buy gun locks for the guns. I hate waste, and what the earlier poster did was wasteful, but legal.

 

And it's your right to not have a gun or have one in your house. Just please don't try to limit my rights to do so. I have never lived permanently in a house/apartment that didn't have a gun in it (usually mine) (yes, I've visited other people without having a gun in the house). My father was a forensic psychiatrist, meaning he dealt with the criminally insane. He was the most pro-gun person I've ever known. He knew that there are evil people out there (the stories he could tell....), and the best defense from them (after good locks and a dog) is to have a gun for defense. When his father (my grandfather) was too old to shoot a pistol, my dad bought him the equivalent of an assault rifle (M1 carbine) as it was just about ideal for home defense, just like an AR-15 is now.

 

The Rights Of Englishmen have been preserved in the U.S. Constitution. Ironically these rights no longer exist in England.

 

My parents were rum drinkers, and so was my grandma.

So we always had plenty of rum in the house.

I started to discover it when I was 14.

Discovered Scotch the next year at 15.