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Among those things so very uniquely, distinctively American is the Daisy Red Ryder lever action Carbine BB gun. It is coming on that time of year once more, and I will once more call attention to the fact the Daisy Red Ryder Carbine WAS NOT AN AIR-RIFLE! IT WAS SPRING-POWERED! How does a Daisy Red Ryder spring-powered BB gun become an “air-rifle?” By the ignorant in power calling it such and promoting the ignorance through films like “A Christmas Story (1983).” Now I find it a charming film with some very clever dialogue and I continue to watch it with delight, but decades before the film was made I earned my genuine Daisy Red Ryder BB gun selling garden seed and Cloverine Salve door-to-door as a child in Bakersfield. This was such an important event in my life it became the focal point of my novel Donnie and Jean about two children growing up in Bakersfield, and it was the mechanism by which Donnie met Jean and how these two children changed each...
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