I'm a bit late to the party here, but the thread did get me thinking about something I hadn't actually mapped out in my thinking.
After my pop got out of the Marine Corps in the 1970's we ended up here in Ohio. The rest of my family already lived here and engaged in a very active "family gun culture" such that pretty much all the males hunted, and when they weren't hunting they were going to gun shows, or they were out shooting for fun. This is still true in the family, I swear we make the guys on Duck Dynasty look anti-gun, lol. I pretty much started carrying rifles as a youth (no idea on the legality of it back then, but all the boys had .22's they carried around to shoot down at the pond or wherever, it seemed like). It was just part of who I was and how I grew up.
Went into the military and that kind of thing disappeared from my radar through necessity and stationing (Cali, 'nuff said, and then Texas where you can't OC), though I remained an active target shooter and gun enthusiast. Forgot about carry (except when camping or hunting) until the CHL law hit here in Ohio back in 2004 (I think?) when the newspapers, in typical anti-gun fervor, went on and on about how we didn't need CHL's, why, if you felt just that paranoid and scared you could strap on a gun and open carry. They meant it in an anti-gun way of course, belittling any desire to carry whatsoever, but that particular argument stirred my interest greatly. From that point forward it was only a matter of time between that and me actually starting OC as an adult. I wanted to ensure I was on the right side of the law, and the moment I figured that I was, I strapped on the (at the time) GP-100 and all has been right with the world ever since.
So I guess mark me down as somebody who profited in a pro-2a way from anti-gun lunatics and their propaganda efforts.