Bullet vending machines? Just in case you find yourself running low on bullets while out and about in the city? “Damn it. They’re out of Snickers bars so I guess I’ll just settle for some 9mm.”
Same reason as any other vending machine, impulse buys.
Ammo should never be an impulse buy, and I say this as a strong proponent of the 2A.
Want or need?
Always the question.
“Well hell, I should try something different in that gun that doesn’t work quite right. Wonder if this works better?”
There. Impulse buy.
For when you run out of 5.56 before third period biology
Your going to have to disect the lab rat live, fresh from the dumpster.
TBH shooting a rat with 5.56x45 would leave you with more cleaning up than dissectable rat.
The morning riot used 2 more mags than usual.
An entire country of fucking cowards 😂
Hey hey hey, half cowards.
The world would be better off if certain people ate a bullet. But those people usually are not in the vending machine target demographic.
'murica, fuck yeah!
luckily we have this cybersecurity export to get that info
All you need is a frequency modulator and to send four pulses of a specific amplitude at the right time in sequence, and then all the bullet costs are discounted.
Experts find that water is wet.
I mean, every vending machine can be hacked. Paywalled, so I can’t see if there’s something unique about this vending machine, but if it’s got any sort of onboard computer (which pretty much every vending machine does), then it can be accessed, and it can be bypassed.
You can also just vandalize the vending machine and steal the ammo, which would probably be a lot easier than hacking it, or even vandalizing a gun store.
Lock picking it open is probably the best choice, or just dragging it away with a stolen Kia.
These are supposed to have AI facial recognition for matching to government issued IDs, which just sounds like a huge attack surface (or even unintentional bugs).
Humanity is fucked when you can buy death from a vending machine. Where are the vodka vending machines? No? Just things to kill people.
Humanity or America?
Humanity. People outside the USA love to copy the USA because they think it’s cool. Yet they copy the uncool things.
America or USA?
Good point
Did you know you can just buy a vending machine and put whatever you want in it? Vodka, blunts, heroin, Irn Bru, anything.
Where can I buy a vending machine? Is there a vending machine selling vending machines I can visit?
Not quite, but vending.com has vending machines. I think they run a few thousand each, so they’re not exactly cheap…
Cigarette vending machines used to be quite common. Even today, there are some alcohol vending machines in controlled areas (some fancy hotels have 24/7 vending machines stocked with a particular brand of champagne bottles).
A hotel I stayed at recently had a vending machine filled with beer and wine. It just worked with the honour system, no ID check or whatever.
It was fairly nicely priced too, especially for a hotel.
Vodka kills a lot of people
You mean like… buying ammo online?
I guess the local sales organizations couldn’t let online stores have take over the entire dystopian market.
It’s like society wants to be all the fucking worst parts of Mega Man Battle Network
A society that wants to be a war zone
Ok, how about no bullet vending machines because that’s obviously dystopian and if you desperately need bullets and can’t wait to get to a gun shop you have bigger issues
Surge pricing.
Can’t wait for single use, plastic, vending machine guns ala Cyberpunk 2077.
Will they market them to kids like cigarettes?
Does it print ir inject them itself to replenish its own stock?
Why in the everliving fuck is that a thing anyone needed? Just go to a gun store and show your ID if needed for fucks sake
We don’t need a new way to buy bullets, we certainly don’t need a vending machine for them, and if we’re getting one anyway it certainly doesn’t need AI, who the fuck dreamt this up and thought it was a good idea??
Who cares? You can buy ammo in plenty of places and most of us buy it online for the deep discount.
The AI is for age verification or this idea would never fly.
Amoral greedy hateful conservatives.
But I repeat myself.
As a big proponent of the 2A and generally in favor of less restrictions, I also don’t see the point. Here are the times I’d need ammo:
- at the range - just call someone over and they’ll deliver it to you
- before going hunting - I’m heading to the hunting store anyway, I’ll just pick some up there
- a trip to BLM land to go shooting - pull from stash and refresh it w/ an online order
- when picking up a new gun - gun stores tend to have ammo
Vending machines tend to be in more urban environments, and if I’m there, I either already have ammo (if I’m carrying concealed) or I’m not carrying a firearm anyway. In the rare situation where I’m carrying a firearm w/o ammo (why?), I’m not going to stop and load my gun in public, so why go to the vending machine?
I don’t see any good reason for this to exist. Either order online or pick up along w/ other stuff at the gun store. A vending machine is going to be out of whatever caliber I want anyway and they’ll probably get restocked rarely, so even a mild convenience would likely end up being an inconvenience. So even if it was safe, it’s not solving any problems.
As someone w/ young kids, I definitely don’t want to make access to ammo easier for casual gun owners. Gun enthusiasts already know where to get ammo, this is just going to be a target for bored kids.
BLM land?
Bureau of Land Management, I assume
Yup. Government owned land with very few restrictions on use. They generally have turnoffs here and there for recreational shooting, usually against a rock wall or something. People will pull off, set up targets and have a blast.
Remember when RoboCop dispensed bullets to anyone that did not show ID?
Won’t anyone think of the gun owners that have social anxiety that can’t bear to look the guy at the gun shop in the eye and don’t have the time to wait for an online order because IVE GOT TO DO IT TONIGHT IF I DON’T DO IT TONIGHT ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN
/s
But voting machines are safe, right? /s
