This is Not the “responsible gun ownership” that I was told to expect.
The link is to a story about ‘Ammo Vending Machines’ which have been rolled out in grocery stores all over the south.
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I’d like to add some data not found in the article. Ammo is sold in boxes/bricks of 50 that can be about the size of a can of Coke.
Soda vending machines can hold from 300 to 700 cans of soda. It’s the same design, So 300 to 700 bricks of ammo (15,000 - 35000 rounds of ammo) when full.
These are inside grocery stores (no reinforced glass there). After the store closes at night, what is to stop a smash & grab thief from smashing the glass, axle grinding off the door lock/hinges, cut the chutes and then dump the columns of bricks into a large gunny sack? A gunny sack which gets tossed into an open trunk or a truck bed, and then the crew is gone?
They’d be gone so fast that police probably couldn’t catch them. Its a grocery store, so they won’t even expect that what’s stolen is gun ammo. They’ll think someone is trying to get into the store safe (they can’t) or trying to make off with armloads of fine cuts of beef.
This is going to lead to waves of crime and murder. Criminals can’t get ammo for the guns they steal from houses and trucks? Guess what, Jethro, now they can.