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Brad Pitt Talks Owning Guns, 'Respect For The Weapon'

Brad Pitt recently opened up about growing up owning guns and learning to have respect for the weapon.

Brad Pitt Talks Guns

Pitt, who was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, revealed that growing up where he did it was customary for family members to pass down their firearms. “There’s a rite of passage where I grew up of inheriting your ancestors’ weapons,” Pitt, 50, told Radio Times. “My brother got my dad’s. I got my grandfather’s shotgun when I was in kindergarten.”

Pitt’s first gun was an airgun. By the age of six, he had his own shotgun. At eight, he’d fired his first shot from a handgun.

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

Pitt, who recently married Angelina Jolie, with whom he’s raising six children, also claimed that he doesn’t feel safe unless there’s a gun in the house, a sentiment he previously shared back in 2012.

"America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA,” the World War Z actor 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."

Pitt’s latest film Fury, in which he stars as World War II army sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier, hits theaters Oct. 17.

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