My first was a h and r 22 revolver, bought for me by Dad at age 6. My second wat a 1911 GI surplus again bought by Dad at Woolworth's Dept store off of a table of assorted surplus handguns in 1966. There were Luger, P38s, a wide assortment of surplus handguns. Nobody wanted the "Nazi" guns back then,lol.The 1911 cost me my summer work money I had saved up, a princely sum of 49.95. Surplus ball ammo was a penny a round.
Surplus rifles were stuffed unceremoniously into a 55 gallon drum next to the pistol table.
Those were good days. Man, I'm getting old....