“Let’s just get this out of the way. Yes, most of my merchandise was ripped from the hands of dead
adventurersrednecks.”Let’s maybe not open Pandora’s vending machine?
Lol you people do realize you can buy ammo online right? A vending machine is just a poor try to remove someone checking out your purchase in a store.
The ignorance around here for anything guns is hilarious.
The prices are probably terrible too.
%100 probably double the cost of online.
I will just use the money I looted from bodies of the dead. Related question: will 30 candy bars still fix machine gun injuries?
Uhm, acktshually, they’re ‘rounds’, which refers to a whole round of ammunition in contrast to a bullet, which is only a component 🤓🤓🤓
We live in the worst timeline.
We live the the worst timeline
You are not helping…
akshually, round is colloquial, it is a cartridge. But bullet is colloquially used to mean cartridge in some contexts, so…
Aktshually I was being sarcastic and AI powered ammunition dispensers are not cool.
Sounds like a fucking videogame.
As other people have already pointed out, ammo bandito!
For how much though? If the bullet vending machines are cheap that’s aight…
I think this was foretold in the Bible. It’s what Jesus would’ve wanted!
13 And then a Samaritan asked the LORD, “Teacher, shall we not love our enemies and strive to bring peace and love to the world, so to bring all peoples into the Temple?”
14 And Jesus did stand up and gaze upon the Samaritan and yell, “Fuckin’ hell, it’s one of those fucking Samaritans! Kick the fucker’s ass!”
15 And thus did the people rise up and busteth his bod. And the LORD did help himself to a 40.
🤣🤣🤣
Praise the lord and vend the ammunition.
And on the 7th day,
God racked the gauge.
We passed by his store that is apparently still in existence on a trip to Indianapolis recently, so I got to tell my daughter about the commercials that Don used to make for Don’s Guns back in the 80s and 90s and how they were pretty much universally mocked for being so creepy with the bizarre tagline and laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAOBIERJR98
And then today I read this and I feel like Don was on the sane end of things.
Wow, that was a creepy laugh. 😳
CP77, the vending machiens that sell disposable pistols (that suck. heh.)
you’d think that’d be a recipe for, you know, getting a bunch of armed robbers hitting you store, but nooo. totally only going to be frequented by <checks notes> good guys with a gun.
(if you’re going to rob the store, rob the machine first, yeah?)
Is your premise that robbers will show up to a store with guns but no ammo, rip off the vending machine for ammo, and then rob the store?
No my premise is the next is vending machines with firearms. Because dystopian hellholes are like that.
Had thought about this.
I wonder how easily these machines are to lift into a stolen UHAUL. Hypothetically one with a hastily installed wire mesh faraday cage… could probably get a lot of easily resold ammo.
If someone is going to rip off a giant vending machine, something like this probably wouldn’t be worth it - they’d hit an ATM instead. Ammo is not that expensive and I doubt you could fit enough in a vending machine to make it worth the risk of ripping off a vending machine. It’d be a few thousand dollars in ammo maximum.
You know a high vis vest and a lock pick for a circle key is only about a hundred bucks. I’d put money on the fact each vending machine probably has the same key too. Once you pick one you just tighten the pick and now you’ve got a key to the rest. You can stand right in public and take your time emptying it. People will just assume you belong. To be fair, if you’re try to look like a vending machine employee you could even skip the vest. Just bring a trolly and some milk cartons.
Probably easier to just break a hole in it and steal the ammo that way.
But considering all the different ways people have figured out how to get food and drinks out of vending machines for free, I’m guessing there will be multiple methods and a lot of missing ammo.
Considering ammo is currently sold by sitting openly on shelves, or maybe locked behind a plexiglass shield with the same kind of security lock used to guard shampoo, I don’t see how the vending machine is easier to steal from.
Depends where the machine is. If it’s in a gun store, probably no easier because someone will shoot you for trying. If it’s outside a 7-11 and you do it at 3 am?
If it’s in the same locations that ammo is currently sold in, then the machine itself seems no more insecure. I suppose if a current shelf full on ammo is left on the street outside a 7-11, the ammo would also disappear.
Leaving the ammo out on a shelf outside a 7-11 is not the same as keeping it inside a vending machine outside a 7-11.
I was responding to your idea that the ammo might be less secure depending on where it is located. That’s true, but the machine itself isn’t any more unsecure than the current way ammo is stored for sale. If the machine is located in the same kinds of places as ammo is currently sold, I don’t see an inherent issue.
I mean, you’re probably right. But I sort of rather assumed they’d be built like ATMs. which are totally easier to just steal the entire ATM and get the cash out while driving to the next ATM.
Huh. I wasn’t thinking about it that way. I think you’re the one who’s in the right here, not me.
If for no other reason than ammo isn’t cheap.
Ammo isn’t that expensive lol, if someone is going to rip off a vending machine/atm, the ATM would be, by far the better choice. 9mm is less than 15 cents per round right now. Unless the vending machine was filled with super expensive exotic ammo, you’d get maybe a few thousand dollars. For the risk of heisting a vending machine, that’s a pretty shitty payout for the would-be criminal.
I mean… you have a point. The people doing this don’t strike me as all that smart.
It might literally just be a snack machine.
Do you know how heavy ammo is
At least three
Can we get gun and personal shield versions soon?
Immediate thought, yep
Personal shields sound amazing.
Sounds necessary.
“If you touch me, everything within 15 feet lights on fire and my gun will shoot faster for 30 seconds.”
Good thing for my Flame of the Firehawk.
Makes me immune to flame damage.
Fill your cravings at the Circus of Values !
Really sliding into the post-fiction dystopia hard and fast, aren’t we?
Why the fuck do we have to put AI into everything? This is stupid as hell and probably a massive rip-off.
“You don’t need to be a better shot, you just need to shoot more bullets”
Spray and pray 🙏
Nothing so pedestrian as that! That suggests indiscriminate fire, so I prefer “accuracy by volume.”
Thanks, Marcus. Hope you make it into the movie.
Sooo… it scans your ID to verify you’re of age, scans your face to verify you match the ID, then scans your credit card to verify payment.
Not seeing where “AI” enters into it.
I guess the only thing that elevates this over an online purchase is making sure some kid isn’t using a stolen credit card.
What still makes no sense to me is the whole “18 for rifle ammo, 21 for pistol ammo”. It ignores rifles that use pistol ammo:
https://ruger.com/products/pcCarbine/models.html
https://www.henryusa.com/firearm-category/big-boy-rifles/
The 18/21 restriction is on what kind of GUN you can buy at that age, the ammo shouldn’t enter into it.
Gun dealer: “Sorry, kid, can’t sell you that box of .40 because you could put in a Glock, here’s a box of .223 instead.”
Matching the face to the ID could use AI
It could, but there are far cheaper and easier technologies that have been doing the same thing for years.
Immediate thought is “surge pricing during unrest!”
Fucking broken capitalist hellhole
