Here’s where ammo is sold out of AI vending machines [Video]

While medical experts urge Americans to think of firearm use as a public health crisis, artificial intelligence-powered vending machines dispensing ammunition have popped up at grocery stores in Southern states.

“Our smart retail automated ammo dispensers have built-in AI technology, card scanning capability and facial recognition software,” reads a message on the homepage of the American Rounds website. According to the site, these vending machines are operational at several locations throughout Alabama and Oklahoma. The first was installed in Pell City, Ala., last November.

Reports this week noted that another location has since been added in Texas for a total of eight. NPR said the Dallas, Texas-based company planned to install a new machine in Colorado this week and that it expects to install many more.

“We had requests in Hawaii, requests in Alaska, from California to Florida and every state in between for the most part,” American Rounds CEO Grant …