Remember Your First Handgun? Do You Still Have It?

[Alan]

I'm curious about everyone's first handgun. Do you still own it, or did you move on to something else? I still have mine—a bit beat up but loaded with great memories! Feel free to share your stories or any photos if you have them!

 

[Wiregrassguy]

Well, when I got married in 1968, my Dad gave me a Rohm .22 Short Snub revolver. Basically, a Saturday night special. I kept it until around 2010 when I sold it to a fellow who was looking for a .22 he could use to kill rabbits he raised for the meat. Now, when my Dad died in 2007, I inherited my paternal Grandfather's S&W .32 Regulation Police revolver from 1924. My uncle (Dad's brother) had it in his possession on the family farm when the sharecropper's cabin he was living in burned down. He retrieved it from the ashes and sorta fixed it up. It was in deplorable shape when I got it with residual soot still in the action. I had it spiffed up by Bob Cogan at APWCogan in Newville, AL. Here's what it looks like now.

Guy

 

[LOLBELL]

My first was a Colt 1911. A friend was having some financial difficulties and pawned it to me 40 some odd years ago. Before he repaid the loan, which was nowhere near what the 1911 was worth, he passed away from a massive heart attack. I tried to give it to his widow but she wouldn't take it. She said Eddie wanted me to have it.

 

[Eddie Southgate]

Not the first one I personally owned , no . I don't even remember where it went to tell the truth. I do have the first ones I ever shot though as both belonged to my pap originally and passed to my dad and then me. My two sons will get them and the rest of my stuff when I croak.

 

[kframe357]

My 1st was a 3" S&W 64 in .357 Mag (I know that it's supposed to be .38, but it wasn't). Sold off last year for finances.

 

[Jester560]

Mine was a Ruger KP90DC .45acp. I could kick myself for selling it back in the 90s.

 

[Eras Gone]

Other than black powder revolvers, the first "modern" pistol that I bought was a Colt 1911 made in 1913. This was in 1976. I bought it from the widow of the man who brought it home from WWI. Still have it!

 

[Lone Wolf]

The first handgun I bought was in 1973. It was a Hawes Western Marshal. 22cal revolver. I purchased it at the local Western Auto for $73.00. I do not have it now but I wish I did.

 

[Jack Vetra]

Good Sunday morning everyone! Praise God! Thank you Lord for another wonderful day on this beautiful Rock AMEN.
My first handgun was a Colt 1911, built in 1940 by Remington. I lost it and everything else traveling out of town to work the iron in Kingsport, Tennessee back in 1987, I must say the level of anger I had was palpable, everyone in three countys could hear me hollering I guess some crackhead needed a vehicle. Well they surely hit a lick that morning, they took everything I owned at that time. The things I missed the most are little things. Like a old block plane that my great grandfather made with blades forged by a local blacksmith in Chance, Maryland. My Vetra family immigrated from Italy back in 1750.
They settled on a little island on the Chesapeake Bays Eastern shore named Deal Island. They worked very hard to make a great life. And they did just that. I know we're talking about our first handgun, but I just write whatever comes into my head for some reason. I apologize for that but anyway yes a 1911 .45 Cal Colt clone was my first handgun, and no it's in someone else's suitcase. I forgave them but it took years. I can't stand a thief, or a lier. A lier is a thief as they steal the truth. But I know God sees all and if he can forgive the men who killed his son, then I should be able to forgive. But MAN!!!! Love y'all have a blessed day.