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In 1982 a Los Angeles man named Larry Walters used a lawn chair and weather balloons to ascend to 15,000ft above ground. On the way up, he lost both his glasses and his bb gun, which he planned to use to shoot balloons to descend. He caused a 20min power outage, and was fined $1500.

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In "A Christmas Story," Ralphie says he wants the Red Ryder BB Gun 28 times throughout the course of the movie. That's approximately once every three minutes and 20 seconds.

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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what bb guns are used for. Here are 21 of the best facts about Bb Gun Bullets and Bb Gun Pellets I managed to collect.

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1. The Red Ryder BB Gun from A Christmas Story is still being manufactured even though the comic it was based on was cancelled in 1963.

2. The BB gun company Daisy originally manufactured windmills, and included a complementary BB gun with each windmill purchase in order to promote sales. The guns became so popular that the company stopped selling windmills and started selling BB guns.

3. A boy named Press Clay Southworth unknowingly shot Buttons with a BB gun. Buttons was the last wild passenger pigeon to have existed. The extinction of the passenger pigeon is now considered to be, "most senseless human-induced extinctions in history"

4. A cat was shot 25 times with a BB gun and once with a large caliber bullet in Florida. Not only did he survive, but he limped home afterwards.

5. In Alabama it is expressly legal to shoot a dog or cat with a BB gun if it relieves itself on your lawn.

6. One of the first ways scientists managed to put foreign DNA into plant cells was by using a modified BB gun to shoot DNA-coated pieces of metal at an onion.

7. Larry Walters. A man who, in 1982, achieved his childhood dream of flying with the aid of a weather balloon... I mean 40+ weather balloons, a lawn chair and a bb gun. A dream 20 years and 16,000ft in the making.

8. Daisy BB Air Guns were originally a promotional giveaway with the purchase of a windmill

9. The BB In BB gun refers to the size of the projectile originally fired from them.

10. In Wichita KS You can carry a firearm with no permit but it's illegal to carry a BB gun.

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The singer from Puddle of Mudd, Wes Scantlin, was arrested for trying to take a BB gun on a plane from LAX and subsequently had bail set at $850,000.

In 1951 zookeepers in St. Louis kept a round-the-clock vigil to make sure that a wound suffered by Phil, the zoo's gorilla, healed. Every time Phil tried to scratch the wound, a zookeeper would shoot him with a BB gun. - source

BB gun is not short for "ball bearing" gun. BB is the name of a pellet size used in shotgun shells.

Peter Billingsley (Ralphie from "A Christmas Story") still owns the original Red Ryder BB gun and the original pink bunny outfit. this is a new post, other post had the wrong link, sorry. - source

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The actors on Xmen got in trouble for shooting each other with BB guns on the set of the Xmen movies.

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Peter Billingsley (Ralphie from "A Christmas Story") still owns the original Red Ryder BB gun and the original pink bunny outfit.

Stubbs the tailless cat. He is the honarary mayor of the Alaskan town of Talkeetna since 1997. The mayor has survived a mauling by a dog, an attack with BB guns and a fall into a deep fryer and continues to serve even today.

In Wichita KS You can carry a firearm with no permit but it's illegal to carry a BB gun.