“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.
  • DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

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

    I don’t want any ammo vending machines if they’re going to explode /s

    On a serious note, I’m surprised these weren’t already available. Now we just need a gun vending machine and I can feel like I’m living in a Borderlands game.

    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
      181·
      2 years ago

      Image of a “good guy with a gun” trying to stop an active shooter; asking everyone running past him if they have change for a dollar as with increasing urgency, he keeps trying to smooth out and feed a crinkled dollar bill into the machine that keeps spitting out.

      Edit: the dystopia flows through me - how bout it becomes subscription based so if you’re on the lowest paid plan you have to watch a 60 second promo spot for season 62 of “Congress Candy Crush Smackdown” or transfer ownership of 10% of your genetic sequence to Disney-Boston Dynamics for their “Real Boy Initiative”, or agree to enable Server mode on your “Nestle Neural Chocolate Chip” to contribute 10% of your brain’s processing power to their distributed “Metabolism Enhancement Network” where subscribers can customise their own metabolic rate, preferred tastes and even allergies.

      It becomes SNL adjacent when the shooter also needs to refill on ammo, but he’s not a member for this particular vendor - so his ammo dispense-rate is glacially slow and not without strings attached. He can wait it out and eat a “compliance wafer” per round dispensed, or he can speed it up after “correctly” answering questions about FAANG (after the big 5 companies merged post Project 2025 and effectively took control of the world population and their minds) - he can switch his neuro-wave thought chip to the machine’s provider on the spot, or provide the names and addresses of five dissenters who are unaligned with the values of the one true religion, Capitalism.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      24·
      2 years ago

      It won’t. Many Americans drift through life in ignorance and even if confronted with something they don’t know, won’t incorporate or react to those things unless they are told how to react. You see it all the time with Trump. When he does something that has been happening since Clinton it’s suddenly a big deal and outrageous, when Obama did something that was perfectly normal since Reagan, it was suddenly beyond the pale and evidence of a commie plot.

      When an ammo vending machine was installed in my high school 25 years ago no one noticed or cared, but if I went and took a picture of it today and posted it on twitter with some provoative text like “I can’t even…” there would immediately be some kind of outrage about it for some reason.

        • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          It’s extremely boring and mundane as such things should be, but it here it goes. We had skeet shooting as an extra curricular. At the beginning of the semester you’d buy some boxes of shells and store them in your locker along with your shotgun. A box of shells would last about 3 sessions. If you ran out of shells but hadn’t brought more ammo you’d have the option to go use the vending machine instead of having to leave the grounds to buy more and probably miss practice or the competition. So it was just a convenience having it there. Of course if you had some friends you could borrow their shells.

          • LePoisson@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 years ago

            I wish we still lived in those times. It’s really unfortunate the reality we find ourselves in vis a vis school shootings and other gun violence.

            That’s kind of what I figured it would be, I did something similar in college except it wasn’t skeet shooting just targets with a .22

            It’s crazy to me how we’ve seen this proliferation of shootings and access to very dangerous weapons finding their way into kids hands. As a gun owner I think we should have required classes on gun safety and handling and some basic training before you could purchase a firearm.

            We have drivers licenses and gate driving behind tests because you’re operating a potentially lethal weapon. It’s dumb easy to kill someone with a car. Why the hell is it easier to get an actual tool designed only for killing vs a vehicle for getting around. We have to do something to help drive down firearm deaths and a lot of those are accidental and easily preventable with minimum due diligence.

            Idk I know there isn’t a “silver bullet” but there must be more than just shrugs.

            Anyways hope you enjoyed your time reminiscing and you have some fond memories of those times.

            • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              I wish we still lived in those times. It’s really unfortunate the reality we find ourselves in vis a vis school shootings and other gun violence.

              Nothing has changed as far as the weapons available, however society is much worse off then it was 25 years ago. And I’m not talking about the good old days of overt racism. I’m talking about material conditions, wealth inequality, employment opportunities, and just general dissolution of “polite society.” Violence is a symptom of this degradation and going fascist with regards to the State monopoly on violence is going to make things much worse for everyone who doesn’t already live in the guilded parallel society (like CEO’s, the rich, and their pocket politicians.)

              • LePoisson@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 years ago

                I also agree we must attack the root causes as well. No single solution will bring us the needed change.

                I’m not suggesting going fascist just some things I think would help. The monopoly on permissible violence already is the defining factor of statehood.

                Anyways yeah shits fucked, the wealth gap needs narrowed and we need some real fixes. All crap aside, hope you have some nice holidays and a good day.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Who are you people? I’m not even a huge hunter or anything, but ammo for sale in a grocery store is pretty mundane in places where hunting is common. Have you ever left your suburb?

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            32·
            2 years ago

            Different countries have different things they consider normal and in particularly diverse countries like the US, different regions in the same country have different ideas of normal. For example you won’t see live bait being sold in London or Paris grocery stores, but seeing that for sale in Louisianna outside of New Orleans (or even inside it) is extremely mundane and normal.

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            People in rural areas still want bell peppers and cucumbers, and the “general store” which often acts as a hardware store/grocery store etc, will have those along with live bait, alcohol, and probably stuff you’ve never heard of, like tannerite. Ammo is just one of the multitudinous things you may find in such a location.

        • araneae@beehaw.org
          44·
          2 years ago

          It is real fucking off kilter to have these things in a country where children are mass murdered by bullets so often. The bullets were already legally purchasable but putting them in a vending machine really makes it obvious that in this country the Almighty Gat is as available and ubiquitous as Coca Cola. We’re a sick people willing to allow another middle man between us and the sale of some bullets so we can have it dispensed out of a cool vending machine like in my favorite action-adventure roleplaying video game title Cyberpunk 2077.

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            2 years ago

            Who is “we.” And vending machines have been available since before your favorite video game depicted them. I had a vending machine for shotgun shells in my high school like 25 years ago. We did skeet shooting and if you needed a few more rounds you could go buy some ammo instead of having to go off campus for it. The whole thing is extremely mundane.

            e: The vending machine was actually an old cigarette vending machine heh.

            • araneae@beehaw.org
              31·
              2 years ago

              Perhaps theres a difference between your shotgun shell vending machine in school (still fucked up; if the rounds were for extracurriculars why did they charge you for it?) can you tell I never played ball in school?) 25 years ago and the current world with its bi-monthly mass child sacrifices to Mammon. Different contexts. Now such a thing is definitely gaudy and flagrently disregards the countrys gun violence problem and how many people are dying so these gun industry fucks can get their jollies.

              Edit: you conveniently misconstrued a factoid from your youth to make my argument against out of control gun culture seem fallacious and I don’t love that.

              • SoylentBlake@lemm.eeEnglish
                3·
                2 years ago

                Dude, every aspect of every extra curricular is charged to the student. Football costs parents hundreds. Schools don’t have the budget to pay their teachers, they aren’t doing shit for students that’s not legislated

  • The Menemen@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Finally! We only got 52 yearts left till 2077! A lot remains to be done, but this is a start!

    Edit: The fuck, it is my cakeday? Didn’t I just join a couple of weeks ago (after I was annoyed over at lemmy.world)?

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      Light?

      Maybe it depends on which Fox News articles you read. They vary wildly from hard news to hard right punditry. I find most Post Millennial articles to be more biased on average, but a lot less sensational and editorial as well.