what got you into weapons?
>>29285817
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
I was probably seven or eight when I first played it and it made me want to kill Germans for a living. Now I just play with my Nugget and shitpost on /k/.
>>29285817
My Grandpa who fought in Korea, Medal of Honor
>>29285817
playing around with my fathers .22
>>29285817
Airsoft
>>29285817
A US Law class in High School
>>29285817
TV and video games as a young lad
>>29285817
>supposed to go to a wedding
>wedding cancelled
>at a gas station in a tux, don't have any plans now
>decide to got to the range across the street
>rent old, shitty m9 and suck with it
>gain interest in guns
That's pretty much it. I suppose the dramatic increase in local crime also contributed.
>>29285817
one day god decided he didnt want me to have any money.
>>29285927
too real.
>>29285817
Call of Duty.
Bought a VZ24 for $225, been hooked since New Years.
>>29285817
Probably vidya. I liked playing Goldeneye.
>>29285927
The same thing happened to me. I lost my job, and my guns were forced to fast for a few months. Then I found a new job, which pays more, and they are all now happily fed.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, etc
Those awesome movies from the 80s and 90s
>>29285817
I saw the Magpul Masada;
>>29285817
video games, and those plastic keychains you get from the quarter slots
>>29285817
When I was about 16, one of my friends took me shooting with him, some of the most fun I'd had in my life. We went every now and then after that, never telling my parents, because they would have freaked out. After I turned 18, I bought my first gun, a shitty 22, and had to hide it in my room until I moved out. My collection has expanded a lot since then.
>>29285817
My cousin field stripped an AR-15 for me.
That was what did it.
However for I'd already decided I loved weapons because I came to the realization that they made me not afraid.
I saw an old commercial for a movie that scared the shit out of me, but then I realized that the people in the commercial weren't afraid because they had the tools to kill and hurt the shit trying to hurt them.
I slept with my nerf guns after that.
The AR was just the nail in the coffin.
>>29285817
Fudd grandparents and a stint in the Army.
I started off building rubber band crossbow type stuff as a kid, then I had a wooden pistol shape elastic gun I made that shot a bamboo dart with a metal tip. My parents weren't gun people at all, but they said if I built it, I could keep it.
>one day, try to dart a squirrel
>dart bounces off, squirrel flashes me the middle finger
>I must build something stronger
I found out about blowguns while researching weapon ideas, had some metal tube around, and soon I was killing and eating blackbirds and sparrows.
>one time I stunned a blackbird with a clay tipped dart, kept it as a pet for a while.
>still can't kill squirrels yet, these things have taken multiple blow darts and run off.
Tried out gas-combustion guns, too unreliable. Then I got into making black powder. I'm the Anon with the copper pipe guns. My next project will probably be a black powder revolver with a gas piston. Nice thread, OP.
15 playing with airport guns not the ones you buy at sport centers. But good ones online, like Tokyo Mauri WE, I had a glock 17 from Tokyo Mauri with metal slide and ever since that day I loved glock brand glock and guns in general.
Then when I turned 19 I got my first ak, good thing too cuz I was very close to buying an air soft ver of it.
>>29286072
Airsoft* dam autocorrect. I'm glad I stopped with airsoft cuz it's true. The fucking things cost almost as more then the real deal. If I wasn't underage at the time I would prob had my real glocks sooner.
Pic related. EXTENDO stick
>>29285817
I've been into weapons and military equipment for as long as I can remember.
But since coming to /k/ I now like traps and I'm starting to think I might be gay.
my progressive liberal dad. a solid 1/4 of my enjoyment is how pissed off he is about it.
>>29285817
>what got you into weapons?
battlefield, arma, dayz, airsoft, /k/, and a proper understanding of liberty and government.
Dad was a cop. Growing up I was used to seeing ARs, and pistols with 15 round hi cap 20 clips per second assault clipazines. Used to be excited to be a grown up and buy some for myself. And then I remembered I was Californian.
call of duty
When I was in Primary School a teacher knew I liked WWI and WWII history and got me a book from a car boot called "Secret Armies of WWII"
In it was a bunch of really awesome weaponry like the Fairbairn-Sykes, the Welrod, the folding incendiary crossbow, etc.
parents. Had a cabin in new york with a crap ton of land, and a whole shitload of rifles. Mainly hunting, some .22s and a few handguns.
losing the land soon and I wish so hard that I could go back and slap the shit out of my teenage self and tell him to not spend the weekend with his friends and either ditch them to go to the cabin or bring them with cause the weekend would've been a lot more fun, and I would've remembered it.
>>29285817
Wild hogs and feral niggers.
>>29285817
Raised redneck and white trash in the boonies. Was given slingshots, compound bows since I was five to build arm/hand strength/coordination. Never leave home unarmed, critters out there. BB guns when I was seven for responsibility and trigger discipline. First .22 at nine, keys to the farm truck at twelve. My buddy down the road got a shotgun and access to a swamp buggy when he turned eleven but we couldn't leave his yard with them, good thing it was a large parcel with massive fields of mud.
Growing up in South Florida swamps ruled!
>>29285871
>>29285817
Feelings of powerlessness and insecurity
>>29285817
I had a childhood of playing soldier and the love of guns came from it.
>>29285817
I think I'm just now getting into them, and I've only been here 10 minutes...
>>29285817
I don't even know, but I've liked weapons since I could walk. My parents tried to shelter me from violent media and refused to buy me toy weapons, but I didn't care. I would use hockey sticks as rifles, oddly shaped sticks as pistols, etc. My parent's couldn't have stopped me from becoming /k/ no matter how hard they tried.
A cork gun my father got me for my 5th birthday.
I kissed my sister on the lips and the rest is history
>>29287980
Same. Im a male and have always liked weapons, and destruction
The USMC.
>be noguns
>go Infantry
>fire/love guns for 4 years
>get out
>wake up and scratch head, where's my fucking Rifle!?
>oh yeah
>so I go buy one
Plus I got PTSD for free. It's lovely I've attacked my wife for trying to snuggle me at night, and am soon to be a divorced cliche.
>>29288048
>>29288078
I feel like a lot of us were just born with dicks and were too stubborn or autistic to listen to our parents trying to tell us that bloodshed is bad.
>>29285847
Are you me?
I was.brought up in a household saying guns were bad. Family was defenseless when some meth addict neighbor broke into my home and killed my dad/brother. I was only 14 years old but I took a kitchen knife and killed the guy before he got to my sister. Since then I never wanted to get that close and personal in a defensive situation ever again. I much rather carry a handgun.
It was a coping measure when I turned of age, but in my mid-20's guns became a hobby and not just a self defense thing. It keeps me happy
/k/ did, I came here to laugh at gun fanatic Americans and ended up researching revolvers
>>29285817
I grew up playing Cod and shooting Nazis which got me into WW2 guns and weaponry
Conflict: Desert Storm
Was my first shooter game.
>>29285817
Former friend took me to shoot trap and let me borrow his $1600 dollar Beretta over under. That threw off my perception of the cost of guns for a while but I still loved it and bought a used pump action. Since then I've bought an average of one gun per month. Going to reorganize the safe soon, almost out of room.
>>29285817
Distrust and hatred of the American goverment.
You?
>>29285817
Grandfather/Father very early on
Movies(Taxi driver, reservoir dogs, Die Hard, Many others, oddly this Japanese film World of Kanako had a 4 inch S&W model 586 that for some reason made me go fullbore gunfag and bought 4 guns since December), vidya, some guns my dad had(S&W Model 19, Nickel, S&W stainless model 6506, Sig, Beretta 70s)
This fucker got elected and I realized it was now or never
>>29285817
Gliders.
>>29286151
Same here, my parents reaction was a combination of curiosity, denial, and fear. Funny stories about my dad incoming.
My dad regularly asks me questions about different guns and despite being a smart man cannot understand how they work. Internal mags confuse the hell out of him. He thought my SKS was tube fed like a shotgun and that "the bullets go up into the wood".
Then we moved onto calibers and he started researching ammo. He saw a program about the Vietnam war and came to me terrified that my x39 tulammo was sabotaged by the Viet Cong and that it would explode in my hands. He also thought you could load any ammo into any gun and that it would fire. I demonstrated putting an 8mm Mauser cartridge into my tokarev magwell that it was impossible, and he flipped out that I was loading a firearm indoors.
He is convinced most of my collection is Chinese knockoffs. When I came home with my VEPR he swore it was made in China and branded with Russian letters. He also thought I had bought a broken gun because of the side mount scope.
I'll post more if there's interest.
>>29286137
Looks like the Shota from Summer Wars.
>>29288582
I posted this, >>29288551 I always liked weapons and history/Milartyish stuff, but also really got into getting guns too bond with my dad, but he gives me shit about it.
>>29285874
I feel like there is a story here
as for me, i first handled guns in the boy scouts (insert gay joke here), after that guns became my thing.
>>29285914
Story on why that wedding was cancelled?
>>29288603
why you gotta say this now im imagining things i shouldn't be imagining.
>>29285817
Obviously phallic obsession according to liberals.
>>29285817
My dad owned a few guns for hunting when I was little, and still does. My uncle on my mom's side used to be a confirmed bachelor that put all his energy into guns and hunting, and I'd spend a lot of time staying at his place in the country during the summer.
I shot a .22 with my dad and uncle for the first time when I was 4 or 5, then got my 20 gauge when I was 12, and have been accumulating guns ever since.
I have 8 or 9 guns now, with half of them being WWI-II era bolt actions.
>>29289119
Liberals say that because they see it through their own mindset, which is phallic obsessed. Why do you think so many of them are cucks?
>>29285817
Who else comes from a fudd family? My family and relatives mostly just see my surplus bolt actions as somewhat interesting (they think they're all mausers, even calling my K31 a Swiss Mauser), to basically worthless.
>>29285817
My dad bought me a bb gun when i was like 9 and I used it so otften that once I translated into actual funs I was a pretty decent shot right off the bat.
I can remember making a few fairly impressive shots with that thing actually.
>>29285817
Fallout 3.
Shit game though.
For me, it was a multitude of things, from being born into a large, Lebanese family with a 50/50 split of hardcore liberals and hardcore conservatives, to playing bideo games with my cousins.
I think the biggest one is the absolute shitshow about 10 years ago when my cousin (who was a cop at the time, now retired) brought a few of his favorite guns to my grandmothers at a small (read: 30 people) gathering. (I still have mo clue why he did it)
The moment people saw the cases shit hit the fan. My grandpa was excited as shit, grandma scared shitless, uncles arguing over wether he should open it or not, ect.
After the whole thing died down a bit, I asked him to open the cases, and if I could see what he had. Pic related, an M1911, and what looked like a Nugget graced my eyes. I was so fucking excited to see a real gun after seeing them in movies and games.
As I picked the M1911 up, there was another fucking burst of Arab screaming with both the pro and anti funs of the family showing their pleasure and displeasure, respectively.
After that, I got a lot of offers to go to the gun range, but since my parents were strict anti funs I never got to go until a few years later.
The liberal side of my family still calls him a "cult leader" who "indoctrinated" me into the scary assault weapon club.
When my youngest cousins turn 15 I'm going to do the same shit, hopefully it'll become a cycle.
>>29289196
Yeah, New Vegas is better.
>>29289187
>I can remember making a few fairly impressive shots with that thing actually.
I did the same with my Daisy bb gun, the one a step below the Red Ryder. I'd hold it at roughly a 45 degree angle to shoot faraway grazing geese.
I pretended I was artillery or 19th century era volley fire infantry.
>>29289112
What kinda things anon?
Medal of Honor: rising sun. I remember me and my old man playing split screen and blasting gooks. Shame most games nowadays don't have split screen.
Wanting to emulate war heroes and movies. My air and airsoft guns reinforced it. Videogames and youtube videos s till piqued my interest during my teens and then I bought some fuddish guns a year and a half ago and now I keep my interest in them as a hobby and American duty.
>>29285817
Nothing in particular. Been fascinated by weapons ever since I could remember. Not sure why though.
>>29288062
Wat
>>29285817
Growing up in wooded area and gramps buying me my first BB gun.
A red Ryder.
childhood abuse and wish for power
>>29289063
>I first handled penises in the boy scouts during penis inspection, after that penises became my thing.
...and there's your joke.
>>29285817
I guess I just loved shooting since I was ~5 and got to shoot my first bb gun and 22.
Thank god pellet rifles have evolved so much since I was a kid, it's easily the gun I shoot the most each year even though I have a lot invested into expensive salt guns.
>>29285817
Living in a violent and dangerous shithole in south America. First gained interest in Guns as practical defensive tools, later started admiring them for their history and engineering.
>>29285817
My grandma owns a ton of land in west Texas. I used to go there for the summer. She carried one of my grandpa's old Remingtons (he had a collection) to shoot snakes. One summer she had some new meth heads as neighbors. I went out alone and they saw me. I felt so hopeless when they started shooting in my direction. From then on I carried a gun everywhere on her property and keep one in every room.
>>29285817
Grew up around them DESU. Dad got me my first .22 rifle in the 5th grade and it's been one wild ride ever since
>>29285817
I've always been interested in technology.
When i became more interested in war history, i discovered that technology advanced extremely quickly in era's of war, because there was a need to one up the enemy. In most of the cases, it was weaponry, that automatically made me more interested in weapons and how they evolved over time.
>>29289104
The groom, my cousin, apparently got caught by his bride-to-be fucking the maid of honor. Who happened to be the bride's sister. Additionally, the Groom's father was fucking the bride's father on the side as well. The whole thing was apparently a disaster.
>>29289809
dude what?
>>29285817
ran into the issue of people who wronged me who were bigger than me.
>>29285817
Gramps
>Hey Sonny, come over here, I wanna show you the rifle I shot nazis with.
>>29289809
>>29289861
MY ENTIRE FAMILY ARE DEGENERATES!!
> dad was SF
> gave me army stuff
> bought me toy guns
Massive mistake on his part. I can never stop.
>>29289897
Not a mistake at all. Better you be for guns overwhelmingly than to be indifferent or even slightly against or afraid of guns.
You should see how many people I go to college with that have never shot a gun, but are terrified of them and have the nerve to think their opinion on gun laws matter.
>>29285817
I've always liked learning about mythology, history and weapons. PLay lots of vidya and such. Then Sandy Hook happened and the prospect of another 'Assault Weapons' ban convinced me to get off my ass and get some real funs. I've only got 4 funs so far (Mauser M48, Sino-Soviet Sks, Walther p22, Canik TP9).
>>29289246
>Sexualising the Kazuma
>>29289936
I'm kinda surprised how many guys became gun enthusiasts as adults via choice and often as a percieved fear of losing gun rights.
I'm glad to see it doesn't take only an upbringing with guns to see the light.
>>29285817
4chan and old WW2 movies (and the History channel).
>>29285817
I hate leftists. Leftists hate guns. I therefore must like guns.
>>29289913
It's about perspective. Do you remember the first time you shot a gun? I was 11-12, and my dad took me and my brothers to the range to shoot some .22 and 9mm pistols. I look back on it as being incredibly fun and new, and I really wanted to shoot the AR15 they had to rent there. I promised myself I would eventually fire it.
Now I'm 19 and my collection has only stopped growing because I don't have any money. I enjoy handling and cleaning them as much as I like shooting them.
>>29290062
The perspective that's wrong is that they simply have decided not to give guns a chance. Those are the anti gunners, those and the fudds that aren't aware that they're anti gun.
>>29290083
It's funny to watch any YouTube social experiment in general that has liberals firing weapons. The same. They are all the same. They go in anti, they shoot, they come out happy and far more lenient, if not even ashamed at themselves for having fun with their rights.
>>29285817
Dayz the mod not the full game
>>29285817
When I was young, my father had a substantial gun collection but I never really paid any attention. I did however have a good stash of NERF and cap guns from a young age.
Before I was old enough to start appreciating actual firearms or learning to shoot with my father, my family ran into some financial difficulty and he sold off most of his collection, only keeping a couple family heirlooms and hunting rifles.
I guess my interest just blossomed from the toy guns I had as a kid. In my teen years, I started really becoming interested. First I got a couple of airsoft guns, and then it took off from there.
When I turned 18, I had two guns. A single shot .410 from my father, and a 91/30 that I bought myself. 6 years later, I have well over a dozen firearms.
>>29290106
That's how it usually goes, and it's a good thing. Some though get these weird murderous thoughts and that's what they obsess over.
>"every pull of the trigger could mean another life taken"
That's when I totally gave up on buzzfeed on my normiebook, those tryguys ruined it completely.
>>29285817
The second amendment. Not joking.
Reading about the bill of rights in American government class made me realize what a great concept it is.
![268733580[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/dPC0DUS.jpg "268733580[1].jpg")
I'd like to thank /k/ for making me a libertarian.
>many, many years ago
>vidya man
>no real grasp on politics, don't have many opinions
>order brass knuckles or someshit
>hmm these are interesting
>hey there's a weapons board on 4chen
>let's see what other weapons people have
>i live in a liberal shithole so reading things that make sense was startling
and now i'm a happier person for it i guess
>>29285817
gun control
>>29290165
another point i'd like to make
>my country of origin got fucking assblasted many wars ago
>gubberment prohibited people from owning gats so they got fucked
i'd like to be holding a gun when someone is shooting at me thanks
>>29288144
I'm sorry that your chance to operate came at such a cost. For real though, that sucks and it's a shame anyone has lost people in such horrible ways.
>>29288189
Have you learned your lesson yet?
>Went to a texas gun show.
>Saw a bolt action for $150.
>Me: "OMG, I can own a rifle for less than $200"
>Seller said it shoot .22 LR
>Me: "OMG, 22 LR is cheap".
>Bought the gun, find out that it actually chamber for .22 mag.
>.22 mag is current obsolete and no where to be found.
>Gun friends laugh at me for being a complete noob and Jewish
>Vow to myself to not be a cheap jew on guns ever since.
Now I got a p320, p238, AR15, and ruger 1022 lmao
>>29286137
haha, same here friend
>>29288099
You could just not ptsd though anon.
>thank you for your cervix
From the beginning that I remember I had an interstate in warfare and stuff like it so I always thought guns were cool but going to the rifle range in the boy scouts and getting to fire one of the assistant scout masters M1A was the thing that really got me into them.
I realized on day on /b/ that in every innawoods.net thread people assumed /k/ would fuck everybody up. So from there I realized I didn't k ow shit about guns. 4 years of /k/ later and I have come to love the bomb and only go back to /b/ for traps.
>>29289224
NV is /k/ as fuck, has a better story too
>>29285817
My father
When i was young i would always watch him shoot muzzle loaders out the back of the house.
He bought me a m38 mosin at 12 for Christmas. I've been hooked ever since.
He passed away last month, at my house in his sleep.
>>29285817
WW2 documentaries.
when i was 13 my uncle in roseberg took me quail hunting, he let me shoot his scoped 1022 and i loved it, i remember us driving down a logging road in his jeep he had a benelli nova right next to him just in case a quail ran across the road
>>29290452
he looked like a cool dude. and he had a shar-pei.
sorry for your loss.
>>29290572
He was and the shar-pei was named loco.
>>29285817
The Boy Scouts. Plinking around with a little .22, then we got to play with shotguns, then one of the dads was like "Hey kids, wanna shoot targets with my ARs?"
I ended up getting kicked out of the troop for being gay but it started an itch that I just couldn't scratch until I could get my own guns a few years later.
>>29285888
Trips confirm.
Also movies.
>>29285817
I remember like it was yesterday
>7 year old me
>4 year old brother
>all i know about guns is from movies, pull the trigger and get blown back 20 feet
>dad takes his old single shot .22 and the three of us trespass onto this old outdoor range he went to in college
>hands me loaded rifle
>crying 'dad, i don't want to! it'll hurt! i'm scared!'
>"don't worry, just pull the trigger son. everything will be fine."
>pull trigger
>best feel i've ever felt
>10 years later
>ask parents to sign age waiver for enlistment
>>29285817
En bloc clip.
>>29290235
CCI still make .22 mag
>>29285817
Being a boy.
>>29285817
My father. Taught he how to use and respect firearms with his pump BB-gun, and when I was a teenager, we would go hunting and target practice.
Today, I now like the mechanical parts of firearms. I like to take apart my pistols and SKS and just explore how everything works.
>grew up in Montana
>shot guns my whole life
>grandpa was the sheriff
>moved to Colorado
>lived through Columbine shooting
>sudden realization that weapons aren't just for fun/hunting
>become an adult
>live every day knowing I am the only person responsible for defending myself and my family
I can't actually remember a time when weapons weren't a normal part of nearly every day life.
Scifi weapons like phasers and blasters got me started
GoldenEye was an intro into IRL guns
Tales of the Gun really got me interested
Deadliest Warrior convinced me to buy a Saiga 12
