i have almost all of my grandfather's and uncle's (he taught me to hunt and shoot) old guns, 2 stories come to mind, one is a parker vh grade 12gauge double that i got for christmas last year from my uncle, when my grandfather came over here in the early 20;s he worked the streets of ny, saved up enough money to move to new haven ct, while deliverin some bootleg gin to a club in new haven, they couldn;t pay him so they gave him the parker shotgun, he shot that gun in countless trap/skeet meets, huntin with it as much as he could, when i got the gun it was covered in cosmoline, i cleaned it all off and noticed two worn spots, one on each barrel right above the foregrip, i looked closer and saw the fingerprints from my grandfather.

the other gun is a war production wather p-38 that my grandfather won in a round of poker with his buddies, my uncle carried that pistol when he was on the vice squad.

that parker was the first shotgun i ever fired and the first shotgun to give me a black eye, and the p38 was the first handgun i ever fired as well.