I got my first centerfire handgun “of my very own,” when I was 12 years old. It was a Beretta Model 34. The gun was a World War II veteran and so was the man who gave it to my dad. The first owner had retrieved it from an Axis soldier who, in the words of the day, “… didn’t need it any more.”
Back in the good ol’ politically incorrect days when American GIs could still get away with that shit!
