Many of us grew up around some kind of firearm, under the guidance of the legal firearm owner, and developed a specific leaning towards one over the years and into adulthood. I was not exposed to firearms, other than my late dad owning a .357 S&W Magnum in the early 1970s. I suspect it was his passion for the movies, more specifically the Clint Eastwood ‘Dirty Harry’ series, that he came to own one.
The gun store where he purchased it is still in existence and doing brisk trade. As I came into firearm magazine publishing in late 2015,
