How the Red Ryder and Daisy Airguns seeped into ... who wrote "A Christmas Story" came by in 1982 with his movie script, asking for a type of Red Ryder that didn't exist until they made ...

In the 1983 comedy directed by Bob Clark, all 9-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB gun. But his mother, teacher and even Santa tell him that he'll shoot his ...

Red Ryder’s name recognition made the character attractive to licensees. ... whose work inspired the movie—he’s also the narrator—misremembered the gun from his own youth as a Red Ryder.

By the end of the ‘40s, Daisy was selling one million Red Ryder BB guns a year. Just like the one Ralphie wanted in the movie “A Christmas Story.” But the exact model Ralphie wanted in the ...

Joe Murfin, chairman of The Rogers Daisy Airgun Museum, shows off a 40th anniversary edition of the popular Daisy Red Ryder airgun Friday Nov. 15, 2024.