• Flying Squid
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    81 year ago

    We passed by his store that is apparently still in existence on a trip to Indianapolis recently, so I got to tell my daughter about the commercials that Don used to make for Don’s Guns back in the 80s and 90s and how they were pretty much universally mocked for being so creepy with the bizarre tagline and laugh.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAOBIERJR98

    And then today I read this and I feel like Don was on the sane end of things.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    Republicans against Government Gun Owner Lists are Lining up at the Opportunity to give these Private Corporations their Personal Identification Information!

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    Lol you people do realize you can buy ammo online right? A vending machine is just a poor try to remove someone checking out your purchase in a store.

    The ignorance around here for anything guns is hilarious.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Why the fuck do we have to put AI into everything? This is stupid as hell and probably a massive rip-off.

  • @[email protected]M
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    Sooo… it scans your ID to verify you’re of age, scans your face to verify you match the ID, then scans your credit card to verify payment.

    Not seeing where “AI” enters into it.

    I guess the only thing that elevates this over an online purchase is making sure some kid isn’t using a stolen credit card.

    What still makes no sense to me is the whole “18 for rifle ammo, 21 for pistol ammo”. It ignores rifles that use pistol ammo:

    https://ruger.com/products/pcCarbine/models.html

    https://www.henryusa.com/firearm-category/big-boy-rifles/

    The 18/21 restriction is on what kind of GUN you can buy at that age, the ammo shouldn’t enter into it.

    Gun dealer: “Sorry, kid, can’t sell you that box of .40 because you could put in a Glock, here’s a box of .223 instead.”

    18 year old: https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-8-5-pistol-length-300aac-blackout-phosphate-1-8-7-lightweight-m-lok-moe-shockwave-pistol.html

  • HEXN3T
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    41 year ago

    Uhm, acktshually, they’re ‘rounds’, which refers to a whole round of ammunition in contrast to a bullet, which is only a component 🤓🤓🤓

    We live in the worst timeline.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      61 year ago

      akshually, round is colloquial, it is a cartridge. But bullet is colloquially used to mean cartridge in some contexts, so…

      • HEXN3T
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        31 year ago

        Aktshually I was being sarcastic and AI powered ammunition dispensers are not cool.

  • @[email protected]
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    691 year ago

    How does it need to be AI? It’s a vending machine. Are you suppose to describe what you plan to shoot and it suggest a specific ammo? Oh it’s looks like you plan to highjack a plane, I recommend Hollow point .22 short to insure it will stay in the body and not breaching the pressurized hull.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      It’s OK & AL, we all know the AI is just to determine weather or not they’re white enough to vend to.

    • SSTF
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      For reasons, there are laws against selling “handgun ammunition” to people under 21. 18-21 year olds can buy rifle ammunition.

      So the vending machine takes ID and scans the person to see if they match the photo.

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          I believe it is the part where it scans the person’s face to see if it matches the ID that is being called AI. I don’t know if that meets the technical definition or not, but that’s what they marketing is calling AI here.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            LPT: Actual AI still does not exist, when you see something described as AI, it’s bullshit. The closest thing we have to AI is machine learning, but that’s more glorified text prediction than it is actual general artificial intelligence. A lot of things advertised as being “AI” aren’t even really that.

    • Flying Squid
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      231 year ago

      It needs to be AI so it can refuse to sell you ammo if your skin is too dark.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Everyone here complaining about it, do y’all really want to go back to the days of having to smash up random crates in secret rooms to find the matching ammo of the 6 different types of guns you are holding?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I like healing my wounds from machine gun fire by eating 20 candybars. I am pretty sure it works that way in real life as well.

  • FuglyDuck
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    311 year ago

    CP77, the vending machiens that sell disposable pistols (that suck. heh.)

    you’d think that’d be a recipe for, you know, getting a bunch of armed robbers hitting you store, but nooo. totally only going to be frequented by <checks notes> good guys with a gun.

    (if you’re going to rob the store, rob the machine first, yeah?)

    • SSTF
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      51 year ago

      Is your premise that robbers will show up to a store with guns but no ammo, rip off the vending machine for ammo, and then rob the store?

      • FuglyDuck
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        21 year ago

        No my premise is the next is vending machines with firearms. Because dystopian hellholes are like that.