Brad Pitt owned his first gun at age 6

Brad Pitt has been a gun owner for a very long time.

The movie star, who was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, told the Radio Times that he has had a lifelong relationship with firearms, including the fact that he inherited his first gun at a very young age.

“There’s a rite of passage where I grew up of inheriting your ancestors’ weapons,” said 50-year-old Pitt, according to the Independent. “My brother got my dad’s. I got my grandfather’s shotgun when I was in kindergarten.”

Pitt revealed he was given an air gun first and got the shotgun at age 6. He said he first fired a handgun at age 8.

The husband of Angelina Jolie—and father of six— added in the interview that he doesn’t really feel that his family is safe unless there is a gun in his home.

“The positive is that my father instilled in me a profound and deep respect for the weapon,” he said.

This isn't the first time the actor's been vocal about owning a weapon, either. In 2012, Pitt told the Daily Mail: "It's very strange, but I feel better having a gun. I don't feel the house is completely safe if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong." Click the Movie button below for more info:
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