Autumn tests automatic weapons on her YouTube channel. She's 9 years old

Having picked up her first gun aged two, Autumn Fry is a truly disturbing image of American life. Now nine, she has 36 of her own and reviews semi-automatic weapons for 200,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, Autumn's Armory.

- GEMMA DUNN

And after roaming from state to state in a motor home, her gun-loving parents Randy and Lindsay finally decided to settle the family in Oklahoma because of its relaxed firearms laws.

The gun culture they represent is an aspect of American life many Brits find shocking and difficult to understand.

And that's exactly why Stacey Dooley wanted to get to know the family when she travelled Stateside for her latest. series of Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over.

Describing Autumn as "really charismatic and incredibly bright", she says: "She's super-switched-on and, at times, you almost forget you're talking to a prepubescent child. She's not even 10 but having lengthy discussions about what guns mean to her and why they're such a massive part of her life and culture.

"I fundamentally disagree with America's relationship with firearms. But at the end of the day, she's nine and I'm not there to give a child a hard time. We're there to truly understand why there are families like hers in America and to try and see life through her lens.

"I think a lot of us have a hard time understanding this love affair between Americans and their guns.

"We've seen that guns can cause so much devastation and we've seen time after time that children have had their safety in school compromised.