A company has installed vending machines that sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas, raising concerns among gun control advocates.
I’d be easy to vend, I guess. It’s shelf-stable, don’t have to control the temperature of the machine, doesn’t go stale (well, within a reasonable period of time).
But…does it make sense for the buyer?
If you’re going to own a firearm, you should probably practice with it. If you practice with it, you’re probably going to use more than a few rounds in the course of that practice. If you’re going to use more than a few rounds, doesn’t it make more sense to buy in bulk rather than getting a few rounds from a vending machine?
I mean, it seems like getting mini bags of flour or something. It’s not that one can’t do it, but I just don’t understand the use case.
I don’t know. Maybe someone carries their firearm with them (addressing the issue of needing to have the firearm to use the ammo) and then spur of the moment decides to go shooting at a private range (my limited experience has been that public shooting ranges tend to sell supplies at the range if you need something)?
Vending machines work really well when you want something in a small quantity that you’re going to use immediately, and don’t mind paying a premium for it. Especially if you didn’t know that you’d need it in advance or it needs to be refrigerated or something. A cold soda or a bag of peanuts at a trailhead or something, okay, I get that.
But I don’t see how well that works for ammo. Like, it just doesn’t seem to fit all that well with the characteristics of the things that I can think of that do sell well in vending machines.
How much rounds you shoot really depends on what kind of shooting you do and what cartridge your intended on using.
It looks like it sells in normal boxes so I can see someone getting use out of buying a few boxes from it. That said, the fiscally responsible thing to do is buy online in bulk. Ammoseek.com lets you cross compare prices from different retailers.
I’d be easy to vend, I guess. It’s shelf-stable, don’t have to control the temperature of the machine, doesn’t go stale (well, within a reasonable period of time).
But…does it make sense for the buyer?
If you’re going to own a firearm, you should probably practice with it. If you practice with it, you’re probably going to use more than a few rounds in the course of that practice. If you’re going to use more than a few rounds, doesn’t it make more sense to buy in bulk rather than getting a few rounds from a vending machine?
I mean, it seems like getting mini bags of flour or something. It’s not that one can’t do it, but I just don’t understand the use case.
I don’t know. Maybe someone carries their firearm with them (addressing the issue of needing to have the firearm to use the ammo) and then spur of the moment decides to go shooting at a private range (my limited experience has been that public shooting ranges tend to sell supplies at the range if you need something)?
Vending machines work really well when you want something in a small quantity that you’re going to use immediately, and don’t mind paying a premium for it. Especially if you didn’t know that you’d need it in advance or it needs to be refrigerated or something. A cold soda or a bag of peanuts at a trailhead or something, okay, I get that.
But I don’t see how well that works for ammo. Like, it just doesn’t seem to fit all that well with the characteristics of the things that I can think of that do sell well in vending machines.
How much rounds you shoot really depends on what kind of shooting you do and what cartridge your intended on using.
It looks like it sells in normal boxes so I can see someone getting use out of buying a few boxes from it. That said, the fiscally responsible thing to do is buy online in bulk. Ammoseek.com lets you cross compare prices from different retailers.