"My Daddy was a pistol, so I'm a son-of-a-gun"..sorry couldn't resist it....
Just grew up around them, and then when I got stationed at FE Warren AFB in the early 70's I fell in with a crowd of gun nuts who spent lavishly on things such as reloading equipment, riflescopes, prarie dog hunts, antelope hunts, coyote hunts,etc,,,so I got started there...and we wasted a fair amount of money on beer and wimmin'