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pooh [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago

Milk, eggs and now bullets for sale in handful of US grocery stores with ammo vending machines

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Milk, eggs and now bullets for sale in handful of US grocery stores with ammo vending machines

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pooh [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months ago
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A company has installed vending machines that sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas, raising concerns among gun control advocates.
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  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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    It uses “AI facial recognition software” to verify your identity and age lol. Mind you this is in a red state where guns are more sacred than Jesus and you can get anything you want without any of these rules online or at a local gun shop. Conservatives will likely knee jerk support this even though its purpose is to siphon your biometrics, track who’s buying ammo, and price gouge you. I don’t know if they sell brand name ammo or Bubba’s reloads that will explode in your face for 90 cents a round

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      It uses “AI facial recognition software” to verify your identity and age lol

      oh so it just won’t work for poc then

      • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Knowing Amerikkka that would be a feature, not a bug.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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        Or with recent trends, they would implement surge pricing whenever someone with an inch of melanin is detected

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        to the bourgeoisie that’s a feature

  • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    Imagine shooting up a grocery store, but you run out of bullets and have to put a 20 in the vending machine

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    deleted by creator

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Can you shake it for free bullets?

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    Oh sweet! Man-made horrors within my comprehension and price range!

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    I always wondered where those vending machines in Borderlands came from…

  • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.orgBanned from community
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    Guns and butter 😏

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      Here you go, the most american thing you see today:

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    “Catch a guuuuuun! Ugh, I’m never doing that again.”

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    Welcome to the Circus of Value!

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    what is the purpose of this? when is this preferable to just going to any outdoors store or gun store and getting ammo? when do you conveniently need a box of ammo? i’m a gun owner and i genuinely don’t understand the reasoning here.

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      Eh if you’re headed to the outdoor range and want to grab a bag of Doritos, a gallon of water and some ammo it saves a stop

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    Who isn’t in a real hurry to buy spoiled milk, rotten eggs, and crappy ammo at incredibly high prices.

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    Ammo vending machines seen-this-one

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      I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

      • yewtu.be
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      • piped.video
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    I know bullets aren’t extremely dangerous if they catch on fire, but somehow I think having a machine crammed with 50,000 bits of metal stuffed with gunpowder isn’t going to be safer in case of a fire than not having said machine.

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      lol i am pretty sure whoever engineered this must’ve taken that into account but i hope not and we get to see a “machine vending shot customer” story soon.

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