Here in the US kids could buy a daisy "pop gun" which was a daisy rifle with no barrel in the barrel tube. The standard use was to poke it in the ground with a plug of dirt and shoot it about 15'. I got one of these as a 7-8 year old and when I was 10 traded something to a friend for a Daisy mod 25, a real bb gun. That was over 50 yrs ago and still shooting airguns as well as firearms.