cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/20309903

“We knew we had something special, but we didn’t know that it was going to explode like that,” said American Rounds CEO Grant Magers.

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    15 hours ago

    These are very modern, expensive devices:

    Purchasers can see the products via a touch screen. The actual ammunition is hidden from view. “These are double-walled steel, 2,000-pound machines that are always indoors under security cameras,” Magers told The Post. “(Ammo is) not sitting on a shelf, you know, like your bread aisle in the grocery store.”

    To buy bullets from an American Rounds machine, customers need to be 21 years of age or older, even if state law dictates people as young as 18 can legally buy ammunition. Buyers have to prove their identity with the system used by the Transportation Security Administration at US airports. In this, the company is going beyond federal laws that don’t require ID verification to complete an ammunition sale. “We’re the only company in America that can say 100 percent, every (ammo) purchase, that there’s an ID verified,” Magers said.

    It’s all made possible by the fact that ammunition is pretty expensive, all things considered.

    While this might feel like a gut punch to anti-2A people since it certainly sounds very silly as a headline, it is just the result of tech bringing us to this point where such a device seems marketable.