Hot button issue! Vending machines selling gun ammunition at Alabama grocery stores

NY Post ^ | 7-5-24 | Natalie O'Neill

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Their vending machines are locked and loaded.

Two grocery stores in Alabama are selling gun ammunition in artificial intelligence-powered “retail kiosks” that scan buyers’ identification cards and faces before spitting out bullets.

The refrigerator-sized machines, located at Fresh Value stores in Tuscaloosa and Pell City, use 360-degree facial recognition to verify a customer’s age and ID in order to make it easier for folks to get firearm ammo, AL.com reported.

“One of the ways we’re changing the landscape of ammunition sales is to make it more available,” a rep for American Rounds, which operates the machines, said in a promo video — which shows the dispenser serendipitously placed next to a cooler of Bang Energy drinks in the Pell City store.

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An idea whose time has come.

[TLI]

What is so tough about a salesperson ringing up your ammo purchase?

They do not record your ID and facial scan.

Yet another way to ID all the gun owners.

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[grobdriver]

use 360-degree facial recognition to verify a customer’s age and ID

No thanks.

[dynachrome]

True, but the gun stores I go to have many cameras.

[Big Red Badger]

What’s a ‘Card Key’going for?
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Free Matt Hoover!

[scott7278]

[logi_cal869]

Really?

Please post the privacy policy. /s

Regardless, it smacks of a government data collection effort to me, nuanced as a “cheaper, more convenient method of getting ammo.”

[Chad C. Mulligan]

I always said that ATF should be a convenience store, not a government agency.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Yeah, this.

Unless I needed something in a hurry and wasn't worried about the future.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I prefer the pre-1968 method. Same I used today to buy 200 rounds today. Walk in, chose your ammo, pay and walk out.
We used to be able to buy all firearms the same way till Dec 1968.

[grimalkin]

Great!

[grimalkin]

/sarcasm

[HIDEK6]

The next thing you know, they’ll start putting cigarettes in vending machines.

[rktman]

Sweet.

[Ancesthntr]

‘Murica!!!!

Seriously, as long as ID is verified, why not? He’ll, they should start selling cigarettes in vending machines again (and I have never been a smoker). It’s just another product. For that matter, do it with booze. Then you’ll have the ATF store

[Theophilus]

It’s a great thing but I’d much rather see vendors selling machine guns in Alabama!

[VAFreedom]

btw i remember seeing a weed dispenser inside a recreation shop in Colorado.

just you wait, in the future, you can buy guns from a vending machine, the same way, and the gun will already have been registered, to save time for you.

i could write a book about a dystopia world like that, suicide pills and abortion pills or even date rape powder, from an AI vending machine.

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i could write a book about a dystopia world like that, suicide pills and abortion pills or even date rape powder, from an AI vending machine.

The AI looks at your face and very politely says 'Date rape powder? How in heck did you manage to get a date???'

[Ciaphas Cain]

The city of Rapture already had this in 1959 with the El Ammo Bandito vending machines:

[maddog55]

We have pharmacies and gun stores combined advertised as Drug and Gun and Pistols and Prozac... Gotta love it.

Local store had a back to school sale listing clothes, boots, guns and ammo. The way America should be.