TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Grocery shops in Alabama and Oklahoma have merchandising machines that enable customers to buy ammo for weapons.The merchandising machine provider, American Rounds, markets “ammo gross sales such as you’ve by no means seen earlier than” on its web site. The corporate is trying to revolutionize how ammunition for handguns, rifles and shotguns is offered.The automated ammunition dispenser makes use of synthetic intelligence expertise to confirm a purchaser’s identification and age by way of card scanning and facial recognition software program.The customer inserts their picture ID, and the machine conducts a scan to match it to the ID card.In a promotional video, American Rounds CEO Grant Magers stated the shops have been in search of an revolutionary solution to deliver ammo gross sales to their shops.Terry Stanley, COO of Contemporary Worth, a grocery retailer in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, stated he’s “tremendous excited” to supply “the primary ammo kiosk.”“We’re at all times in search of methods to present our clients another excuse to come back go to our shops. Something we are able to do to assist them make their buying journeys simpler, based mostly on the suggestions we’ve gotten from clients right now, they’re so enthusiastic about us having this ammo kiosk,” Stanley stated within the video.The merchandising machines are at present out there at six areas, based on the corporate’s web site.Throughout a briefing of the Tuscaloosa Metropolis Council earlier than their common slate of conferences, metropolis council president Kip Tyner requested police chief Brent Blankley and different municipal leaders to elucidate a merchandising machine promoting folks ammunition on the Contemporary Worth retailer, based on a neighborhood information outlet.“I received some calls about ammunition being offered in grocery retailer merchandising machines,” Tyner stated. “I assumed it was a joke, however it’s not.”The town’s police chief and different metropolis employees reported that the machines are authorized and have been vetted by the ATF, based on the Tuscaloosa Thread.