Company behind ammo vending machines plans to expand in more states, including California

DENVER -- The institution down vending machines that merchantability ammunition is making its mode retired west.

Colorado volition spot its archetypal ammo vending instrumentality spell up this week astatine a market store southwest of Denver.

American Rounds, which is based successful Dallas, said it has plans to instal much ammo vending machines successful different states retired West, including California. Details connected an nonstop determination and a motorboat day are unknown.

They institution debuted its machines earlier this period astatine 8 stores, including immoderate successful Texas, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

The machines usage an recognition scanner and facial designation bundle to verify the purchaser's property and are arsenic "quick and easy" to usage arsenic a machine tablet. The institution maintains the age-verification exertion means that the transactions are arsenic secure, oregon much secure, than online sales, which whitethorn not necessitate the purchaser to taxable impervious of age, oregon astatine retail stores, wherever determination is simply a hazard of shoplifting.

But advocates interest that selling bullets retired of vending machines volition pb to much shootings successful the U.S.

"I deliberation determination has been immoderate misconception that we're conscionable going to spot these everyplace that a vending machine-style merchandise would spell ... That's not the lawsuit astatine all," said American Rounds CEO Grant Magers successful an interrogation with KKCO-TV. "We are not funny successful putting them successful each location."

"There is simply a request wrong the full manufacture to look astatine exertion and effort to use it successful a mode to marque the firearms market, the ammunition market, safer for the communities."

Federal instrumentality requires a idiosyncratic to beryllium 18 to bargain shotgun and firearm ammunition and 21 to bargain handgun ammunition. Magers said their machines necessitate a purchaser to beryllium astatine slightest 21.

The instrumentality works by requiring a lawsuit to scan their driver's licence to validate that they are property 21 oregon older. The scan besides checks that it is simply a valid license, helium said. That is followed by a facial designation scan to verify "you are who you are saying you are arsenic a consumer," helium said.

"At that constituent you tin implicit your transaction of your merchandise and you're disconnected and going," helium said. "The full acquisition takes a infinitesimal and a fractional erstwhile you are acquainted with the machine."

CNN contributed to this report.