President Obama said Thursday night that he has never owned a gun, and said growing up in Hawaii did not lend itself to a lot of “hunting and sportsmanship.”
“I have never owned a gun,” he told CNN host Anderson Cooper in his opening remarks at a “town hall” on gun violence in Virginia. He offered a caveat that there is some skeet shooting at Camp David where he’s used a 12-gauge shot gun on a “fairly regular basis.”
“I’m not making any claims about my marksmanship,” he noted.
Growing up in Hawaii, he said, he didn’t spend a lot of time hunting, unlike other areas of the country where hunting is a regular pastime.
“Other than hunting for wild pig, there’s not the popularity of hunting and sportsmanship with guns as much as there are in other parts of the country.”
