Did your parents own when you were a kid. My dad had only 3 guns
2 shotguns and a 243. I have a few more than that but not near as many as some folks. I was just wondering tonight if our generation just gone wild buying and if it was normal for the generations before us to have fewer guns. My grandpa had 2 guns. A shotgun and a 22 rifle.

Dad only had a 12ga Remington pump and a Winchester .22. He did use a flame thrower in WW2 but they didn't send it home with him.

Back then we didn't have reason to fear our government.

My parents had no guns. They bought me a Ruger 10/22 when I turned 16 and a Remington 870 Express Super Mag Combo when I was 18. Those were the only two guns ever in my parents house.

Keith

My dad had roughly 20 long guns and 6-8 handguns at any given time. Nothing high end-he liked his Ithacas and about any .22. He collected Daisy bb guns and i think when he died mom had to deal with selling somehwere around 160 or so. I know he had more at one time. Kept a few of his favorites as keepsakes.

Dad's
99 savage
16 ga model 12
old remington 22
savage hornet

My Dad had a large collection of handguns.
I used to go with him to the pit to shoot on weekends.
We shot a lot when he was practicing for his crossguns.

A single shot bolt action 22 and a 410 shotgun. Both were for varmit control for chicken and sheep predators. Have both of them still.

Dad had a Winchester .22 pump,model 61 I think and a Smith model 17 . 22 pistol. Bought me a Ithaca 37 20 gauge when I was 13. Other than that , that’s all. I bought a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington when I was 15, dad bought it , I paid for it. Dad was wounded in WW 2, never hunted.

My Dad had a 243 he bought at an auction, a 10/22 he bought new, and a 357 he bought for protection.

My dad was a rifle loony. He bought and traded guns constantly. Unfortunately I took after him in that regard. I've let some go that I wish I hadnt. Including two Savage 99s in 358.

3 was the most my dad owned at one time. A shotgun, a .22 and a deer rifle.

Chris

My dad had a 12 gauge a 410/22 over under and a 22. We never shot for fun, just hunting. No handguns.

My Dad had a .22 rifle which he bought new at the end of WWII, a winchester model 63 which I now own.
He also had a double barrel Cresent 12 ga shotgun. It was a beast. long barrels and tight chokes. No good for everyday country boy shooting.
Later he bought a Marlin 336 in .30-30 which he used for deer hunting with the uncles. Deer hunting with the uncles was more about getting together, drinking beer and playing cards than deer hunting. In all the years I hunted with them, about 6 years no one ever fired a shot at a deer.

My Mom was not opposed to guns at all. she grew up in northern WI and guns were just like any other tool. In fact before i got my divers license she would drive me out to hunting spots, drop me off and be back around dark to pick me up.

I own probably the most guns I have ever owned now and I hunt the least now since I started.

I probably should sell some.

That's funny about no one firing a shot in 6 years.

My mother was opposed to guns, but my Dad kept a double barrel shotgun and a .38 Special revolver.

The shotgun had a length of pull suited for a ten-year-old. My grandfather traded two bushels of potatoes for it during the Depression.

Jim

...btw I don't have single one of them now. Wish I could own a gun, but it's just too risky these days.

my Grandpa had one 12ga from the time he got married till a year before his passing 63 years when he gave it to my uncle

my other grandpa never had any the few times he went hunting he borrowed one he was WWII Navy

my Dad had just one shotgun until I was 11 when he added a 22 then a shotgun for me at 12 we hunted a slug only area so a shotgun was about all one needed for deer. he added more later I was the oldest so as I started hunting and shooting we did more , got into trap for a while , got into pistols some.

until I turned 12 and started hunting he had just the one weekend a year for deer camp. Fishing was his thing still is.

No guns in our house until my parents bought me a Winchester 22cal model 250
For Christmas when I was ten..
Still got it

More than I have now.