Growing up dad had 3 different long guns in the glass door gun cabinet at the end of the hallway and my room was also at he end of the hallway on the left. He died when I was young so then it was hunting stories from uncles and then mom went anti- gun me and said I couldn't even have BB gun growing up. So I was shooting my friends BB guns and was good at it. Finally mom says if you want one you'll have to buy it yourself. Took me one month to save up for that Crossman that I bought at Kmart for 30.00 dollars. At that time they passed a law that if a person was under 18 I would have to have an adult to buy a BB gun since I was 13 I asked mom to buy it for me and she did. Then it was many years before I could get the money to buy my own guns but now have several and reloading equipment to boot.