I went to vote and then went to the gun shop to buy my first EBR. Ive wanted one for years and even though i wasnt financially as ready as i would have liked to been at the time, i managed to scrape up the funds. I figured id better get one before the price went up too much.
Edit: or before they got banned.
I bought an AR 180 in 1980
Bought a Colt Sportster in 85
Built a rifle length in the late 80’s
Built a PWA lower before the Cal Assault Weapon Ban
Have two Stag lowers being built as I type
Oh yeah there was a BM 59 in there somewhere.
JA
I’m guessing that first time AR buyers are less likely to be members here (yet), so that option might be underrepresented.
For example, while I bought my first AR during the first ban, I’ve convinced at least three people to buy their first AR in the last few months. They aren’t members here, but I’ll try to rectify that, too. 
2006 here.
Guess mine was a preban FAL in 98, then a couple NM AR15s between 2001-2005 before picking up my carbine in 2006.
My first purchase was in 1993/94.
Wow - I think it was 88/89 - Colt HBAR - being a short guy, swapped the A2 stock with an A1, just like my armory issued/kept M16A2 in the day.
I had been meaning to get one for a while, but never really got around to it. In 2008 I saw the winds of change a-coming and got ready, but plans fell thru mid summer and had to use the fundage elsewhere.
Got a stripped lower right after the election before prices went berserk, and right after the initial run on guns. Which in retrospect was a good thing I think, because I likely would have ended up with DPMS, RRA or some other questionable quality gun, since I didn’t know what I didn’t know, and my advice was coming from a friend who build his gun from a del-ton kit and fiercely argues it is ‘just as good as’ a Colt…
In Jan 09 I saw the Daniel Defense rifle coming out, and at a reasonable price, so I got one as well.
Forgot to mention that it was a Colt’s Match HBAR MT67##. Too bad I sold it. . .
Jan 2001 I believe it was.
1996 - Colt Match Target HBAR.
1949, right after Leon Czolgosz shot Bill McKinley
Bought my LMT in September, and lay-awayed my Beretta CX4 9mm just a week ago.
I’ve not been without an AR since my 16th birthday.
Bought my Bushmaster in 2002.
I bought my first one in early 05, then 2 in 07, then 6 more in 08 
I bought my first rifle in December 1986 an H/K 93 rifle from my recruiter for 350.00. I traded 2 weeks later for a Hungarian SA 85 AK from Kassnar Arms. I was only 17 and didn’t quite understand the dynamics of the gun world. I followed this purchase with a Mossberg 500 pump shotgun. I regret that I don’t have the AK or the H/K 93.
I got my first lower in the spring of 07 and bought the upper to complete it in Fall of 07.
-DM-
i bought my very first Colt AR-15 in 1987.
January 3rd 2009 !! I got a late start. But I have full blown B.R.D. now !!
I remeber seeing a colt AR in a pawn shop for $300 back around 1988 but I did not think I could spend that much on a rifle ???
Are we all that ignorant when we are 18 ? LOL
S.M.