Brad Pitt Got His First Gun When He Was 6, Doesn’t Feel Safe Without One

In an interview with the Radio Times, Brad Pitt revealed that gun culture runs deep in his family — so deep that he received his first gun at the tender age of six.

“There’s a rite of passage where I grew up of inheriting your ancestors’ weapons,” Pitt told the Times in an interview promoting his new movie, Fury. “My brother got my dad’s. I got my grandfather’s shotgun when I was in kindergarten.”

Prior to that, he’d received an air rifle at 4, and by 8, he’d shot his first handgun. “The positive is that my father instilled in me a profound and deep respect for the weapon,” he added.

Pitt has been fairly open about his acceptance of guns, saying to a reporter once that gun culture was “in [America’s] DNA.

“It’s very strange, but I feel better having a gun,” he told the Daily Mail in 2012. “I don’t feel the house is completely safe if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.” (The man has probably had his fair share of stalkers.)

Which is why, we presume, Pitt is currently starring in a movie about a guy who sits in a bigass tank, shooting Nazis.

[h/t NYDN]
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