Ammo vending machine.

[sch40]

Great idea. The credit card payment/verification thing might work well too (although I've been in two bars and a restaurant with a cigarette vending machine lately - no problems).

I use an unmonitored range for most of my shooting and, from experience, the vending machine should also offer targets and small rolls of duct tape

 

[erikm]

An interesting idea, but it could do with some refinement.

Security and safety would probably be doable. Look at how ATMs are built and work. While I've heard of cases where crooks have shown up with power shovels and hauled of entire ATM machines, they're generally reasonably secure. As for safely dispensing ammo, how about packing it in rigid bars (a bar of .45 please ), loading the bars in a magazine and using machinery similar to an ATM's to strip bars from magazines as needed and neatly deposit them in a delivery basket before opening the blast shield covering said basket. You can't see the ammo storage, but really, do you need to?

BTW Morgan; the stuff being offered for sale in the lower automat photo is cheap (and IMO inedible) fast food. And the photo was quite likely taken in the Netherlands.

Cheers,
ErikM

 

[PaladinVC]

FEBO!

Oh, man, I remember eating FEBO shoarma burgers. Never again. Good "Boom Chicago" sketch, tho:

1: "Are you Mr. Febo?"
2: "No, but I work for him."

Eventually the guy's hand gets ripped off in the little door and a German tourist buys and eats it. Hilarious.

 

[sch40]

I think that a little more security (from theft, not "fOr ThE cHiLdReN!!!") would probably be a good idea (we're not selling chips and Ho-hos here). But I think that a large amount of that security would come from just keeping the machine stocked well: someone mentioned a few posts ago of having 6 hoppers full of 5,000 rounds of ammo. That's a LOT of weight -- try pulling that with your broken-down jalopy

 

[FSCJedi]

This is me subscribing to this thread because I think this idea has a lot of merit.

 

[BluesBear]

FSCJedi you could have just as easily clicked on the "Subscribe to this Thread" button at the bottom of the page.
Thank you though, for at lease being polite enough to post some sort of message. Those who simply type a "." are annoying.