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    THE DAISY CHAIN

    Aug 11, 2022 6 minutes

    The Daisy airgun – that's just a toy isn't it?” Well yes – but no. Certainly it is inexpensive. It is compact and very light in weight at around 2lb, being made of steel stampings and plastic, and fires steel BBs at low power through a smoothbore barrel. It's a repeater with an underlever action “just like the Winchester of the Wild West”. But while all this makes it very appealing to a nine or 10-year-old, it cannot be treated as a toy as it could do very serious damage to an eye or other tender part.

    However, it can provide an excellent, early introduction to shooting and to the safety rules properly imparted before any shooting actually begins, and the paper manual included with the gun provides useful guidance for both parent and child.

    These guns have been around for a long time. By the 1950s around 1.5 million children were given Daisy airguns by their

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