In a Texas conference centre teeming with gun lovers, an excited 17-year-old is picking his next birthday present – an AK21 assault rifle.
Austin Whitehead is here at the National Rifle Association annual convention in Houston despite being too young to buy the products on display.
But guns have been around all his life, so he doesn’t bat an eyelid as people pose for pictures with Kalashnikovs and scoop bullets into plastic bags.
