Start-up putting ammo vending machines in grocery stores plans to grow
Candy, ice and lottery tickets have long been impulse items sold at checkouts in American grocery stores. Now bullets are joining the list of merchandise peddled to consumers as they exit at a growing number of stores around the country.
Dallas-based start-up American Rounds rolled its first automated retail ammo machine into a Fresh Value grocery store in Pell City, Alabama, late in 2023, selling various brands of rifle, shotgun and handgun ammo.
The company advertises its machines as a safer and more convenient way to buy ammo than at a large retail store or online. But public health experts have questioned whether the company’s suicide prevention efforts are sufficient, and elected officials in areas where machines were set up have worried that the easy availability of ammunition could lead to impulsive purchases by people who seek to do harm.
“If you’re in the ammunition space … you have a social responsibility to make things as safe as possible while maintaining the integrity of the Second Amendment,” American Rounds CEO Grant Magers told The Washington Post. “We wanted to accomplish both.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/15/ammunition-vending-machines-grocery-stores/
Can someone explain to me why this isn't an absolutely fucking insane idea?
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Let's go find someone to shoot.
Bang bang,... you cut me off seven red lights back. You're dead.
What could possibly go wrong 
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...the could make ammo boxes the size of cigarette packs & recycle the old machines. 
computer so we could fill out firearms form and in five minutes we could have a gun.
I may never set foot in a red state ever again. 
a 3 Musketeers bar
a ball point pen
a comb
a pint of Old Harper
a box of .357 magnum wadcutters
some flashlight batteries
and some beef jerky
Got an ID for the liquor?
That Snickers purchase could save some lives, 'cause you're not yourself when you're hungry.
