-Hey, guys. I'm Autumn.
I'm 10.
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And I have a YouTube channel where I shoot guns for a living.
Okay, so this is a gun that we wanted to show you.
-Ready?
When we started the channel, she had just turned seven.
Look at her smile.
-I don't know any other family like ours.
-Radio check. -There we go.
I don't do anything that has anything to do with politics.
I don't know what else to say about that.
There's nothing political here at all.
-I'm actually really good with this.
I'd say, yeah, I'd think of myself as an influencer.
I'm a breakout creator, as you can see from my trophy.
-The point of this channel is to show people that guns
aren't scary and people of any age can enjoy them, too.
-I mean, maybe not any age.
I'd say two and older.
Well, I don't really want to do anything when I'm grown up.
I want to do what I'm doing now.
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Okay, That's fun.
-Alright, so we're going to get going here...
-Okay. -And do the MP5 .22, right?
-Yeah. -And then I thought
we would just try out --
Did we -- did we ever try these out in it? The auto match?
-I feel like we -- I feel like we did.
-Alright, we'll see how these work,
and then the velocities. -Okay.
Over the past month,
I think we've posted like eight videos.
-Last summer we were doing a video every single day.
-It depends on what video it is.
Sometimes it'll take, like, 45 minutes to an hour.
Sometimes it'll take 10 minutes
if we're just doing a short.
It depends on what it is.
-So remember, we're going to -- we're going to mention
there's lots of other brands that make similar guns,
but this one's actually the HK version.
-Yeah. -This one's got last shot
hold open unlike the nine.
-Okay. I like the aperture. -And then give me --
give me this angle here where you kind of --
you're pointing over my -- over my right shoulder there.
-Yeah. -That's a cool angle there.
-Cool. Alright.
Okay, so this is the gun that we wanted to show you.
This is an actual HK MP5 .22, and you can see here
that they had to have the 16-inch barrel
with the fake suppressor on it
because of the ATF and their rules and whatever.
But yes, I have shot it multiple times before,
and it is a lot of fun.
Alright, ready? -Ready.
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-January of 2020 is when we started the channel.
She was seven.
-I pretty much just turned seven.
This is the Sig M400 thread.
-We're over 200,000 subscribers now.
-And we have over, like, 300 videos.
-Yeah, we probably have nearly 300 videos at this point.
-I did used to do like a lot more complex gun reviews...
And this is a type of P320, but it has this compact slide
...but most of them are just having fun blasting something.
I think my channel's a lot of fun,
and it's a lot of fun to make.
That was a lot of fun.
Oh, that's fun.
This gun is so much fun.
-Literally, it's 24/7.
If they're not shooting guns, they're watching guns
or they're looking in magazines or on websites.
-What really stands out is her proficiency with guns,
the way she can load, unload, manipulate clear jams,
hit what she's aiming at, all that sort of thing.
-There's a saying it's technique, not physique.
A .22 with like a weak technique is okay,
but like if you step it up to a .44 mag,
that technique has to grow with it.
If you keep that weak technique with a .44 mag,
you're gonna get hurt.
But plus I got them muscles.
[ Chuckles ]
-So, I guess the general concept
is just showing the world
that guns can be a really fun thing
and people of any age can enjoy them, too.
So that's what it's all about. -Any age.
-Two year olds. Me.
I started shooting when I was two.
-Alright, give me that outro.
-We had a lot of fun trying out this...
We had a lot of fun shooting this, uh...
HK MP5 .22. -Yeah.
-We had a lot of fun shooting this HK MP5 .22,
shooting the natural steel, and the 12 gauge.
I mean, I always have fun with the 12 gauge.
I hope you guys had a lot of fun watching this video,
just like we had a lot of fun making it.
So thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.
-Nice.
-You stink. I love you, but you stink.
-We're full time Rv'ers. This is our house right here.
We've previously, for the last 10 years or so?
-Eight. -Eight years, just been
traveling all over the country,
hitting different construction jobs,
and this piece of property here came available,
and we had enough cash to just buy it outright.
So we did.
So this is the first time we're like really,
you know, settling down.
-Okay.
And this is my room.
It is quite spacious until it gets cluttered.
[ Grunts ]
These are my squishmallows here.
You can come in if you want.
So these are all BB guns up here, yeah.
And then right down here --
dramatic transition from the highest spot
in my room to the lowest --
these are all Pokémon cards.
I do do homeschool, actually. Yeah.
I do, yeah.
-Autumn's homeschooled.
She uses a program called Time for Learning.
But mostly we focus on life skills.
-I'm making this for my friend Lola.
You know, the girl that I told you doesn't collect Pokémon
and is in Texas.
-I love the schooling.
I get 100% interaction with her
and get to teach her in a way that she understands everything.
It's always really cool.
-So this is my microfossil collection.
This is my best tooth I have, and I can do this
for one of my subjects for just like science part.
I do like school, yeah, most of the time.
We get into a park day group or like a homeschool group,
and then we go to the homeschool group
and play with friends that we meet.
Pretty much, yeah.
It's a pretty simple way to make friends,
but I really like going to those park days.
-There's just so many.
Alright, when were you cutest?
-What? -[ Chuckles ]
There you are.
You and Daddy are at the range.
-What gun is that?
-Look, Daddy, he's wearing jeans.
-Oh, wow. That's surprising.
-My first memories have been being into guns.
I just couldn't get enough of guns.
My whole life that's how I've been.
-She would push her buggy, her baby buggy
around the -- the range.
-So the first time that I shot a gun,
I would always go to the range with my dad.
And one, like, I kept paying more attention
and more attention to him.
And one day I asked if I could shoot.
-So I just held a rifle,
a .22 rifle for her with both hands down low,
and she just reached over it and yanked the trigger
while I held it down range, you know?
-Yeah. -And she had a blast.
And then so we started putting out little clays
or something that breaks when she shoots it, you know.
-It's just a lot of fun.
Like to hear the steel, that little plink sound.
That's a lot of fun to hear, like the bang of the gun
and everything and seeing things react.
Pineapples, two liters, soda cans.
I like doing bowling with bowling pins.
Safety is pretty big to me
because guns are pretty dangerous.
-Before we ever got her a toy gun,
we made sure that she had respect and discipline
for real guns.
And once we saw that she was responsible enough,
then we got her a toy gun.
She needed to know that guns are not a toy.
-I trust her completely.
My finger is always off the trigger.
As soon as she's done aiming,
it's never pointed in a wrong direction.
She's better than most adults.
Her technique is so rock solid.
Her muscle memory, she just locks
right into position the way she does.
That's what she's made to be doing.
-Empty. She's just amazing.
-Me and my dad had noticed my talent of shooting,
and we thought that it would be great
to start a YouTube channel.
So we made our first video.
Now I do forget what that first video
was because we've gone through a few channels
because of YouTube, and it went great.
So we started making more.
-I just posted a video yesterday.
It's got 4,000 views right now.
It's kind of lower than usual.
Okay, I can go to audience here.
Viewer age, viewer gender.
87% of the viewers are male.
So it looks like 35 to 44 years is most people,
but that's -- that's basically a quarter.
You've got to figure a lot of her fans are children
and they're just on their parents phone or whatever.
You know, we get comments all the time.
You can tell it's a child writing it
on their parent's phone, so...
This video has 5,580 comments on it.
They're always really nice.
We get so few bad comments,
and I don't pay any attention to them, so...
-When there was that, the one video
of her dual wielding,
that video went absolutely insane.
A lot of people then stole it
and put it on things like Twitter and all these other...
-With no context, you know. -Right.
-When you saw it in the original video from us,
you had a whole video buffering,
just that one little scene, you know,
And when you see that just as a standalone item,
it might be a little intense.
-So there was a lot of negative -- negativity
and comments from that.
-Children shouldn't shoot guns or, you know,
just something really general and low intelligence like that.
Nothing to back it up or anything like that.
It's usually something like that.
-Like sometimes I'll get on my phone
and read the comments sometimes, but I just don't really like to.
Yeah.
Now, some people do say that I'm too young to shoot guns,
but I'll be honest, I don't really care
because shooting guns is fun for any age.
Like, that's what I would say.
I mean, maybe not any age. [ Chuckles ]
Maybe not one, but, like, I'd say two and older
would be fine.
If you have, like, the proper technique and everything.
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-Sure, that's the -- that's the intent of the government
and mainstream media is to demonize guns
as much as possible,
and talking about that only further perpetuates that.
So we can just stop talking about that right now.
This is our poster making area.
We just built this shop.
We just bought this laser, like we're just getting going.
We sold a few of them, but, I mean,
it's a brand new product.
But Autumn's Armory, our main focus needs to be on that.
That's what's the important thing.
I'm not even worried about making money.
-That's definitely -- Autumn's definitely our main focus.
-Yeah. -I would say the holster
is just, like, what would you call it?
A backup income. [ Laughs ]
-Making money and spending money is all on me.
-Yeah.
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-[ Humming ]
Daddy, I want to show you something cool.
I'm going to load this mag without the helper.
-Yeah, right.
A lot of YouTubers and other genres
are obviously making a killing doing it,
but hey, that's not why we're doing this.
Like, if I cared about money, I wouldn't be doing this.
This is a huge waste of time.
-We don't really shoot every day.
Whenever it's good weather like this, we'll shoot.
But on the weekends we don't shoot at all.
Except for with silenced guns.
-We are "monetized," but I have to do air quotes
because it's just a total game with YouTube.
They're just constantly changing the rules.
They will randomly monetize or not.
We've probably made a few thousand dollars off of YouTube.
-Ready? -Yeah.
Like, nobody counts on monetization money.
I don't. Sponsors are how we make a living.
We're still not making much money,
but it's still -- that's what carries us is sponsorships.
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[ Metal tinks ]
-That's fun.
-It's a genuine love that she has for guns.
-Yeah.
We've, yeah, we've said that from the very beginning.
It's your decision if you one day
don't want to do it anymore,
think about it for a week [laughs] and then --
and then okay.
-This isn't just some kid
that her dad's making her pose with guns.
Like, she's really good
and has a real genuine interest of her own.
So yeah, I could see
where people might get a misconception of it.
-We are going to airsoft. Yeah.
I need to get dressed, though.
-Yep. Go ahead and get changed.
-Usually we go every weekend or we try to.
Oh, I didn't know my ponytail came out.
There, now I'm bald.
-Put your gloves on,too.
-Radio check. -There we go.
Are you ready?
Yeah, I do play against mostly adults,
but sometimes there are children there.
-When we first started going,
you know, they didn't know her there,
and she's so young, they made her be on my team.
But now that they know her and they see how she is,
it's like everyone wants her on their team and stuff.
[ Man screams ] -[ Laughs ]
The technique, I don't really know.
I think I just learned it because I've been
around guns so much.
My dad has always been a gun guy.
-Hit. -Hit.
I started with airsoft and BB guns,
and then that's what got me into, like, real guns.
-I just want everyone in the whole world to see her.
At least one of her videos the whole way through.
I would be -- that would be it. That's my goal.
-It is pretty cool to see all those views
and seeing all the people that are watching.
-She's got a ticket the rest of her life.
All she's got to do is keep shooting.
She'll be able to make a total career out of it.
-Hello, buddy. -She could keep
doing a YouTube thing.
She could start shooting competitively.
She could do whatever she wants.
She's -- she's always going to have a career in guns.
-Well, I don't really want to do anything when I'm growing up.
I want to do what I'm doing now, pretty much.
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-There you go.
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