Your background with firearms

[Mr. Reactionary]

What is your maximum background with firearms?

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

First option. 

Glock 17 with a scarlet-red slide. 

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

#3. I took a CPL course last spring/summer and have the certificate lying around if I feel the need to get a CPL, but I felt it wasn't for me.

[Joe Republic]

I've seen plenty of police officers in my life, but that seems obvious and redundant, so let's just go with option 5.  Proud of it. 

[Big Abraham]

Nice try, I don't believe in background checks.

[Cassius]

No. 3.

[Former President tack50]

My grandfather owned a decomissioned and deactivated gun from his time in the military, so option 4 for me surprisingly (though I am not sure if it counts).

In any case I do not intend to own guns any time soon. I am already somewhat scared when I am out shooting with a friend of mine who owns a compressed air rifle, I can't imagine shooting a "real gun".

[Mr. Smith]

Since I was Boy Scout, Opt. 3.

[certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

Do NERF guns count or no?

[Ancestral Republican]

Own several guns

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Second-to-last option. I've handled guns (I work in a museum that focuses on contact-era Iroquois archeology but also has some later stuff including Civil War-era weaponry), but never fired one.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Fired one, never lived in a house with one, which is probably the standard 'grew up in the British countryside' answer.

[Crumpets]

Option 3. Fired one once at a biathlon range in Canada. I'm not a good shot, as it turns out.

[beesley]

'I have never lived with or shot a gun but have seen one irl before' got my vote, and I'm happy for it to stay that way - my interest would only be in their history rather than anything recreational.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Option 4 due to the presence of police officers.

I've got prior experience in laser tag, of that counts.

[beaver2.0]

Never owned one or lived with someone that owned one but I'm vaguely considering getting one at some point.

Obviously, being a boy scout, I have shot them before.

[parochial boy]

Used to have a gun at home, but it was actually owned by the government.

[KaiserDave]

Option 3, a Ruger Mark IV, that's it.

[DC Al Fine]

I own a couple long guns and use them for hunting.

[Virginiá]

Lived with / shot several (numerous) / do own

[The Dowager Mod]

#1.

[Illiniwek]

I shot a gun that was just full of gunpowder once. My only real interaction with a gun.

[TheFonz]

I currently own a lot of guns. I plan to continue growing my collection forever, and I don't see why I'd ever get rid of any unless I gift them to my kids some day, so I imagine the number I currently own will never go down. In fact I acquired two new guns just today. They were gifts from my wife's grandfather, who has officially reached the "give everything I own away" stage of life.

[Xing]

Unless police officers count, happily #5.

[Alcibiades]

On a residential ‘adventure’ trip I went on in school, one of the activities was a firing range, but that was only rubber pellets so I’m not sure if it counts. Apart from that, nothing.