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My very first gun purchase was a Universal M-1 Carbine in 1987 while stationed at Ft. Knox. I had just PCS'd from 3 years in Panama or I would have had a firearm earlier than that. It was soon followed by a 4" Taurus blued .357 magnum revolver. Third was a Norinco AK, and fourth was a SA M1A (used).
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A WASR-10. 2006, the day I turned 18. I had a 22 and a shotgun that my parent ms bought me when I was younger. Neither were shooters and were not all about that style of rifle. They have since changed their views.
I bought it and hid it. They didnt know I had it until a few years later.
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I think it was a 1911 when I was about 12 years old. It was at a gun show and I remember negotiating for the handgun and the holster.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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LOL That shit would NEVER fly now! Ahh, different times for sure.......Originally Posted by SteyrAUG
11C2P '83-'87
Airborne Infantry
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i'm 99% sure it was my HK-91 in 1988.. I know I bought it and a Ruger P-85 right about the same time.
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1973 - a Colt Commander, for I believe $159.00, at the PX.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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The first was a Ruger Single Six 22 lr probably about early 72'. My 2nd was a Colt Gold Cup about a year later. $190 brand new. Pythons were the same price.
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Bought my "just as good" Spike's Tactical 16" M4 LE.
Back in 2010, new baby on the way, along with replacing our flooring and redoing his bedroom my version of nesting was adding a firearm to the house. Sobering moment when you realize you are responsible for the safety of someone else.
I still have it, it's the sbr I've posted. Swapped the barrel and handguard, just about everything else is the same.
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Vandal, Holy smokes my first AR was a Spikes upper on a S&W lower because it was "just as good." I remember thinking what a rifle I got for $750. All bought new/separately. I even was comparing it to BCM before I bought it and found some article justifying my purchase. Goodness.
First gun I bought myself though was a Colt Defender cause it would just conceal so well!
I learned guns the hard and stupid way.
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Single shot Colt .22 derringer in 1966 when I was 18. Traded a beautiful German switchblade for it. Dumbest swap I ever made. It did save my bacon though in a bad part of KC. I would have been dead meat had the baddies not run off.
The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of postmodernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality, irrationality into insanity, sexual deviancy into polymorphous perversity. And since then, generations of intelligent students under the guidance of their enlightened professors have looked into the abyss, have contemplated those beasts, and have said, “How interesting, how exciting.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss (1994)
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