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and mentioned to my Dad that we should have received those BB guns but we were making up for it now. ;)

Great story!

I made a huge mistake with my son, according to my wife.

Shortly after Nov 4th '09 I decided my boy needed a 22LR, and he got that for Christmas that year.

I brought out the trusty 20 ga I've had from my youth, and we started having a fine time.

Then came the 7.62x39, then the 9mm / .380 / .40 pistols, then the .308 Saiga - that thing is a beast!, on order is the Saiga 12 ga.

Jr is for ever talking to Mom about the guns he sees in the NRA rag.

The boy talked to his neighborhood buddies, next thing ya know I have Dad's calling me, "I didn't know you were into guns - let's go shooting!"

Six dads last time, off spring in attendance.

Last outing also included my 11 yr old daughter - she went nuts, loved it!

The only reason the wife is pissed is because she knows gun = $$$$$.

I'be been working on her, she wants to go shoot..........

Life is good!

Almost exactly to this day, 22 years ago, I had my first date with my wife to be (although I didn't know I was ripe for the fall) and I took her to ... Church. 2nd date we went to the shooting range. She knew my guns, my 2nd Amendment activism were part of the package from day #1. I already had a brand new Shall Issue FL ccw permit when we first started dating.

Her dad is a WWII retired USMC 06 (full Colonel) holding the Navy Cross and Silver Star. Genuine war hero with 18 air to air kills in the Pacific. She was raised around guns. Her dad bought her a .380 Beretta M84 when we married and she hated it for the low stopping power and inaccuracy. She had her greedy eyes on my beloved Remington Rand M1911A1 45acp Government model. I wasn't about to give up my beloved "Betsy." So I quick marched into a gun show and bought her a Colt Commander 45 and put tritium sights on it (we traded the .380 to help defray costs). It's been marital bliss ever since. For our first anniversary she gave me a Dillon Reloader and for our second she gave me a rifle. My BRIDE, Lord above I DO love her so!

She rarely says "NO" to gun purchases I want to make.

I never say "NO" to any purchases she wants to make. Never. Spend $1300 for a purse? Go for it baby. Life is too short. We'll figure out how to eat later. That's me. However she is the wise one and she is the one who budgets the $$$$ and pays all the bills. So she is smart enough to do things right.

I still never say "no."