Ammunition vending machines coming to Texas Alabama and Oklahoma.

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jimintoronto

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier.....A company is going to put ammunition vending machines in 3 US States. These coin operated vending machines will sell fire arms ammunition by the box. The machines hold rifle, shot gun, and pistol ammunition. The machines use Ai technology to scan Identification cards, uses facial recognition technology, and it verifies age and the person's address. The 3 States will be Texas, Alabama and Oklahoma. The company is called American Rounds and they plan to have at least 500 of these ammunition coin vending machines on locations by the end of 2024. Here is a link to a news article with more information.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/12/us/vending-machines-ammunition-alabama-texas-oklahoma/index.html
 

Customers first have to scan their driver’s licenses to confirm their ages, then the machine’s facial recognition software scans their faces to match their identity to the license, background checks, safety course completion, and etc. and the machine's security system makes sure all transactions comply with those federal regulations and local regulations as well.
 
Murrmurr said:
Customers first have to scan their driver’s licenses to confirm their ages, then the machine’s facial recognition software scans their faces to match their identity to the license, background checks, safety course completion, and etc. and the machine's security system makes sure the transactions comply with those federal regulations and local regulations as well.
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Do you think that sort of screening will be effective to help reduce drive-by shootings or mass murders in those states?
 

It's not actually crazy... it's safer than selling from a shelf at Walmart because AI is used for levels of security that isn't available with other places that sell ammo. This from an article on it earlier this year:

"Ammunition is sold in big retail stores primarily, and it sits on the shelf. It openly sits on the shelf like cereal boxes in a grocery store. OK, they are very small boxes for easy theft. Bad people do bad things. We all as an industry, not just our company, anybody that sells ammunition, anybody that sells firearms, we all have a responsibility to mitigate the risk, and we are doing that," says Magers.

Magers says the state-of-the-art automated dispensers are equipped with the latest AI technology. The machine is a touch screen. You select your product, check out and then insert your ID to verify your age. It uses the same ID scanners as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

"It is looking at all these little facial points characteristics. It makes you smile. You can't hold a picture up there, it is looking for facial movement. It is looking at 92 different points of your face," says Magers.
 
JBR said:
Do you think that sort of screening will be effective to help reduce drive-by shootings or mass murders in those states?
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People who do drive-bys don't normally obtain their guns legally. It's different with mass shooters; some were apparently mentally stable when they passed all the requirements to purchase a firearm and then went out of their gourd at some point, and I think a majority of them took the weapon(s) from a licensed, registered owner...often a parent.
 
CallMeKate said:
It's not actually crazy... it's safer than selling from a shelf at Walmart because AI is used for levels of security that isn't available with other places that sell ammo. This from an article on it earlier this year:

"Ammunition is sold in big retail stores primarily, and it sits on the shelf. It openly sits on the shelf like cereal boxes in a grocery store. OK, they are very small boxes for easy theft. Bad people do bad things. We all as an industry, not just our company, anybody that sells ammunition, anybody that sells firearms, we all have a responsibility to mitigate the risk, and we are doing that," says Magers.

Magers says the state-of-the-art automated dispensers are equipped with the latest AI technology. The machine is a touch screen. You select your product, check out and then insert your ID to verify your age. It uses the same ID scanners as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

"It is looking at all these little facial points characteristics. It makes you smile. You can't hold a picture up there, it is looking for facial movement. It is looking at 92 different points of your face," says Magers.
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I think the machines should require a fingerprint as well. I don't know if a person could dupe the facial recognition thing, but you can't have too may layers of security, imo.
 
Murrmurr said:
I think the machines should require a fingerprint as well. I don't know if a person could dupe the facial recognition thing, but you can't have too may layers of security, imo.
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Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad idea. The article I'd read said that it seems some people believe you pop a dollar bill in like a "regular" vending machine and the ammo falls to the bottom to be pulled out of the slot like a candy bar. :rolleyes:
 
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To our Canadian friends... any further news on the Oshawa double shooting of the teacher and hockey player up there? How awful! I guess my point is that if a killer wants to get ammo, he or she will get it somehow. At least they arrested the shooter... or did I hear that wrong?
 
CallMeKate said:
To our Canadian friends... any further news on the Oshawa double shooting of the teacher and hockey player up there? How awful! I guess my point is that if a killer wants to get ammo, he or she will get it somehow. At least they arrested the shooter... or did I hear that wrong?
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To put that into miles rather than kilometers, that's about 2300 miles east of where I live. It's in Ontario, not too far from Detroit. In Canada these things usually happen, if they happen, in the larger metropolitan areas. It hadn't hit the news out here yet, though I expect it will. Even if we have fewer whackos per capita, no point for us to be smug CMK.

I'll google it.
 
horseless carriage said:
Gun violence is the leading cause of death in the United States of America, yet 56% of the residents in the United States of America say that carrying a gun in public would make the country safer. The statistics differ.
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To be fair, that's talking about concealed weapons as opposed to wearing a pistol on your hip or an AR over your shoulder. Apparently, 56% of Americans view the latter as provocation for violence.
 
horseless carriage said:
Gun violence is the leading cause of death in the United States of America, yet 56% of the residents in the United States of America say that carrying a gun in public would make the country safer. The statistics differ.
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Fraid not there partner...
In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. That figure includes gun murders and gun suicides.

Heart disease still sits as number one.

Heart disease: 702,880
Cancer: 608,371
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 227,039
COVID-19: 186,552
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 165,393
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,382
Alzheimer’s disease: 120,122
Diabetes: 101,209
 
CallMeKate said:
To our Canadian friends... any further news on the Oshawa double shooting of the teacher and hockey player up there? How awful! I guess my point is that if a killer wants to get ammo, he or she will get it somehow. At least they arrested the shooter... or did I hear that wrong?
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Yes Durham Regional Police arrested a suspect within 3 hours. The traditional love triangle, gone wrong. The suspect has been charged with 2 counts of first degree murder, as he had planned this attack for a while. The fire arm was a bolt action rifle, which he had legally purchased previously.
 
It always strikes me as strange that those crying out for more gun control are embarrassingly over armed themselves. How do these fruitcakes even distinguish between each other to re-enact the OK Corral in public spaces? They are all a danger to civilized people.
 
I thought the premise was that guns are a public hazard. Adding more gun toting hardly makes things safer.

Your statements here reek of presumption of privilege and superiority. How many "Meth addicted nutjobs" have you personally executed so far?
 

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