Where did you buy your first gun.

[Seansworth]

Benelli Nova at Bass Pro in OKC. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I realized how awesome some of the privately owned gun stores around Oklahoma are.

 

[Uncle Meat]

Back in 1974 my best friend got caught smoking by his dad.
As punishment, his dad sold me his H&R single shot 30/30, 20ga combo. for $50.
My friend understood and never held it against me.
He knew that way, he would get to shoot it again and he did.

 

[F16mickey]

Route 66 pawn in Sapulpa a Ruger P90 fo $350

 

[trbii]

Ruger Mark 1 .22 target pistol at Skaggs Alpha Beta sporting goods dept at 21 & south Memorial. 6 7/8" length barrel and found a black leather holster w/strap to carry it on many hikes to plink and hunt out East of Owasso from 1976 thru 1986. Loved that pistol and happily sold it off when the 22/45 model came out. Love this new one the same.

 

[taaz67]

Purchased a FIE Titan 380 at gun show in the myriad on labor day weekend in 1985. If I had only known .

 

[flatwins]

Ruger Mark 1 .22 target pistol at Skaggs Alpha Beta sporting goods dept at 21 & south Memorial. 6 7/8" length barrel and found a black leather holster w/strap to carry it on many hikes to plink and hunt out East of Owasso from 1976 thru 1986. Loved that pistol and happily sold it off when the 22/45 model came out. Love this new one the same.

Cool! A grocery store sold guns? We had a similar place in Enid. It was a pharmacy but also sold sporting goods. Those days are gone, unfortunately.

 

[dennishoddy]

H&R .410 from US Army Surplus in Ponca City. Paid $17.50 for it when I was 11 years old. Mowed yards to get the money.

 

[ronny]

The first gun I ever actually bought was in about 1952, or thereabouts. I was about 14. Walked in a local mecantile store in Healdton and bought it myself for about $20, or perhaps a few dollars more. It was a Mossberg 142A. When I went away to the Army, it just kind of disappeared. I never did know what happened to it. Some younger cousin probably wound up with it.

It looked like this
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[ronny]

My second bought gun was a Mossberg 185 20 gauge bolt action shotgun, bought that same year from the same store for about the same price. (I worked hard that summer). It now belongs to one of my cousins.

Looked just like this one.
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Ha! Three guns in one! Not quite!

 

[henschman]

Chinese SKS, at Best Pawn in Stillwater when I was 15. Straw purchase FTW!!!