Curator's Corner: Daisy Caseless .22 Rifle

NRA Museums Special Projects Coordinator Ernie Lyles joins John Popp with another gem from the NRA National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia. It's a Daisy V/L rifle, the first to use caseless ammo. The idea is to avoid the cost of brass. The .22 bullet has gunpowder pasted on the back. There's no primer. It uses 2000 degree, compressed air to ignite the powder. The line ended in 1969 when the BATFE ruled it was a firearm, not an air gun. Daisy made about 23,000 before production ended.

[@BetterOnichThanSorry]

Just yesterday Ernie told me how this gun works at the museum. Wonderful to now see it in the channel!

[@chrischiampo7647]

BetterOnichThanSorry 😀👍🏼

[@robertdeen8741]

It would seem to me they just took the sport/art of deisling a pellet gun to the next level.

[@grayeaglej]

Exactly, just using a dry propellant insted of a grease or oil.
And then the Government had to come infringing. :(

[@chrischiampo7647]

Heddon Makes Fishing Lures Now 😀

[@chrischiampo7647]

That’s an Amazing Handlebar Mustache 😎😮👍🏼

[@michaelhayes7471]

I shot one of those a few years back there just weird

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[@davisracquet]

I hope you get better.

[@zarb88]

The black background really doesn’t help you see the firearm.