Re: Your first firearm?
Marlin 25N, I got it on my 10th Birthday (mostly) with money from cutting grass, shoveling snow, and other odd jobs around the neighborhood. It took me the better part of a year to save the $94 for the rifle. My dad took me to buy it, he picked up a couple bricks of ammo, spare mag, and the taxes/transfer fees on everything.
I still have it and regularly shoot it. It's on the second Trigger pack at this point, I wore out the first one after about 30,000rd.