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A 13-year-old boy was able to buy a gun with ease in a chilling social experiement carried out just weeks after the Florida high school shooting.

Video footage sees the babyfaced teen walk into several stores to try and buy age restricted items.

Unsurprisingly he was refused all of them because he was not old enough - apart from a gun.

The video was shared on social media in the wake of the Florida high school shooting.

Although this experiment was actually first aired in 2014 as a segment of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel , the clip has resurfaced due to the attention on gun problems in the US.

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The footage shows young Jack from Virgina who had "just got his braces off and usually spends Saturday morning playing basketball with his friends" trawling round shops.

But the narration says he is also a young actor and had been roped into taking part in the experiment - being driven around the various shops by his mum - because clearly he is not old enough to drive a car.

They pass shops where he is not old enough to work on the tills and then they go into a supermarket to see if Jack is able to buy beer.

With a camera hidden on his body, he's able to record his every move, and as the 13-year-old goes up to the till with his pack of beer, the cashier looks at him in disbelief that he thought he might be able to buy the alcohol.

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She shakes her head and says: "No, it's not happening," then can be heard saying to someone else: "literally he looks like he's 12".

Jack then tries his luck at another shop - this time to buy cigarettes, but yet again he's turned away buy a staff member who says: "I'm so sorry I cannot sell you these cigarettes."

And when he tries to buy "racy magazines" yet again he fails and is told "you have to be 18 or older".

He is even refused lottery tickets as he tells the cashier he's 13 to which she says: "you can't get no scratch off baby".

But then Jack arrives at a gun show.

The video shows dozens of guns lined up on tables for customers to browse.

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The seller is then seen holding a .22 bolt-action rifle and says: "It should shoot pretty good for you."

Jack says: "I'll take it" and within minutes he hands over a wad of cash and is able to walk out with the weapon.

Federal law says you must be 18 to buy a licensed gun from a dealer but because this gun was brought from a private gun show it is considered a private sale which requires less documentation.

It seems outrageous that the young teen was able to buy the gun with such ease and shows why there needs to be stricter rules and regulations in place.

Anti-gun campaigners are desperately trying to fight for stricter gun control laws in the US - even more so following the shooting in Florida last week.

The massacre saw gunman, Nikolas Cruz, 19, burst into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and kill 17 people.