I am 61 and to be quite honest, while I like and collect steel and wood guns of all types I also like many of the new evil black guns as well as plastic pistols,however, there is just no "pride of ownership" attached to many of them. I appreciate what can be done with them the same way that I like Craftsman Hammers, but if you visit my gun room I won't be dragging one out to show you. AS far as age goes ,all that we see both the military and police using are "new" style firearms so it stands to reason that young people will want what they see much the same as us older guys did. I know I couldn't wait to get an M1 Rifle and an M1 Carbine as well as a Blue Steel S&W Revolver and 45 Gov't. We truly are shaped by what we see and read about.