A company has installed vending machines that sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas, raising gun control concerns.
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American Rounds USA has introduced computerized vending machines to sell ammunition in grocery stores across Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. These machines use identification scanners and facial recognition software to ensure age verification, making the purchase process "quick and easy," according to CEO Grant Magers, MBA, MS. Despite these security measures, advocates express concerns that vending machine ammunition sales could lead to more shootings. Nicholas Suplina from Everytown for Gun Safety argues, “Innovations that make ammunition sales more secure via facial recognition, age verification, and the tracking of serial sales are promising safety measures that belong in gun stores, not in the place where you buy your kids milk.” #Ammunition #VendingMachines #GunSafety #AmericanRounds #Technology #AgeVerification #SecondAmendment #PublicSafety
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This is probably the most American thing you’ll hear today: People in a handful of small towns can now buy gun ammunition from vending machines in grocery stores, The Associated Press reported this week. American Rounds USA, a one-year-old Dallas-based company, owns and operates them. CEO Grant Magers said the automated touch-screen dispensers, which are federally approved, verify customers’ ages by scanning their photo IDs and faces and using AI to match the two. People 21 and up can tap to buy shotgun, rifle, and handgun rounds 24/7 like they’re using a McDonald’s order kiosk, except the whole exchange only takes two minutes or less. Magers said he’s received 200 store requests for the vending machines, but right now, only six are up and running: four in Super C Mart locations in Oklahoma, one in a Fresh Value Inc. grocery in Alabama, and one in a Lowes Foods in Texas right next to a middle school, Matt Roy reported. Gun control advocates are concerned…especially after an Independence Day weekend in which gun violence killed at least 33 people. While they welcome facial recognition and age verification tech in firearm sales, safety advocates would rather see these types of protections in gun stores or online—where retailers sometimes fail to verify buyers’ ages—than in the places where you buy bread and cheese. Have we really reached a point in our society where ammunition vending machines are needed in grocery stores? Via Morning Brew #guncontrol #vendingmachines #grocerystores #ammunition
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Protecting Our Students By Robert Jordan Introduction: In this discussion, we address a striking statistic that paints a vivid picture of the cultural and regulatory landscape in the United States: there are approximately 78,000 licensed gun dealers, more than the total of all McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s locations combined. #Activeshooter #gun #Gunviolence #Massshootings #SchoolSafety #SITE|SAFETYNET℠
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Protecting Our Students By Robert Jordan Introduction: In this discussion, we address a striking statistic that paints a vivid picture of the cultural and regulatory landscape in the United States: there are approximately 78,000 licensed gun dealers, more than the total of all McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s locations combined. #Activeshooter #gun #Gunviolence #Massshootings #SchoolSafety #SITE|SAFETYNET℠
The Surprising Reality: More Gun Dealers in the US Than Fast-Food Outlets
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Protecting Our Students By Robert Jordan Introduction: In this discussion, we address a striking statistic that paints a vivid picture of the cultural and regulatory landscape in the United States: there are approximately 78,000 licensed gun dealers, more than the total of all McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s locations combined. #Activeshooter #gun #Gunviolence #Massshootings #SchoolSafety #SITE|SAFETYNET℠
The Surprising Reality: More Gun Dealers in the US Than Fast-Food Outlets
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Protecting Our Students By Robert Jordan Introduction: In this discussion, we address a striking statistic that paints a vivid picture of the cultural and regulatory landscape in the United States: there are approximately 78,000 licensed gun dealers, more than the total of all McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s locations combined. #Activeshooter #gun #Gunviolence #Massshootings #SchoolSafety #SITE|SAFETYNET℠
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DENVER, JULY 11, 2024–Colorado Ceasefire today issued this statement on media reports that a company plans to offer ammunition sales via vending machines in Colorado: ‘Colorado Ceasefire is aware of media reports that a Texas company plans to sell ammunition via at least one vending machine in Colorado. While we hesitate to give undue attention to this company–which currently operates only six such machines in the entire US–this development raises several concerns: -Is the customer identification/facial recognition technology in these machines proven to be accurate and reliable? Beyond vague promises of ‘abid[ing] by regulations,’ the company offers no compelling evidence that it is. -With more than 1,600 firearms dealers in the state of Colorado (according to ATF, in 2022), we don’t know that an ammunition-access problem exists, even in rural communities. This product strikes us as more about novelty than serving an actual need. -Finally, decades of research have proven that too-easy access to guns and ammunition is a major contributor to gun violence, including homicides and suicides. We are opposed to any effort to make these deadly tools ‘just another’ consumer item, like soda pop and candy bars. Colorado Ceasefire pledges to keep up the fight to make Coloradans safer where they live, work and play.’ #gunviolenceprevention #enoughisenough #COCeasefire
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Could someone twist buying a simple squirt gun for your child as encouraging firearm ownership? What about an industry related t-shirt? It's a stretch, but you can sue anyone for anything at any time, so why not? Illinois finally passed House Bill 218, the Firearm Industry Responsibility Act. Aimed at holding gun manufacturers accountable, the law's language raises some red flags. The definition of "firearm industry member" shall mean a PERSON, firm, corporation, company, partnership, society, joint stock company, or any other entity or association engaged in the manufacture, distribution, importation, MARKETING, wholesale, or retail sale of firearm-related products. Other states, like California's (AB 1863), have enacted similar bills. Colorado's version, SB 23-168, says "firearm industry MEMBERS." There's that word again, and Im guessing all the bills have this type of language. If you are a "MEMBER" of a group like GOA, FPC, NSSF, or the NRA, does that toss you into the "industry?" No idea, just something to think about because there are legal minds out there way smarter than me. Ambiguous and far-reaching laws go to court and are often fought for years. Could an amendment to these laws make things better or worse? Words like person, member, and marketing should raise questions about how far someone could push the boundaries of this or any law's intentions. So, if you gave your kid a squirt gun or an industry-related t-shirt, could you somehow be perceived in the marketing of firearms?
Squirt Guns Will Be Next In HB-218
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