In a lot of nations, you can't buy a gun at all unless you jump through so many hoops it's ridiculous and even then, if some bureaucrat thinks you don't need one, you don't get to have a firearm.

Here, we now sell ammo in vending machines.

I love this country so freaking much that it's ridiculous. While we're dealing with dipsticks in other countries who seem to think that we should be embracing gun control in light of recent events, we install vending machines for ammunition. That's just the most American thing I can think of that doesn't require a change in legislation.

But it seems some people are displeased about those vending machines. 

Gun control advocates are concerned about bullets being sold out of vending machines after a Texas-based company placed its ammunition retail machine in several stores across the country.

"What is happening is everybody is hearing the words: ammunition, vending machine and grocery stores, and they are throwing this all out of context," says America Rounds C.E.O. Grant Magers.

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"In a country where guns are the leading cause of death for children and teens, Texas included, and in a state that has experienced some of the most high-profile mass shootings in recent years, expanding gun access and, in this case, ammunition access is the wrong direction," says Texas Gun Sense Executive Director Nicole Golden.

"Ammunition is sold in big retail stores primarily, and it sits on the shelf. It openly sits on the shelf like cereal boxes in a grocery store. OK, they are very small boxes for easy theft. Bad people do bad things. We all as an industry, not just our company, anybody that sells ammunition, anybody that sells firearms, we all have a responsibility to mitigate the risk, and we are doing that," says Magers.

Magers says the state-of-the-art automated dispensers are equipped with the latest AI technology. The machine is a touch screen. You select your product, check out and then insert your ID to verify your age. It uses the same ID scanners as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

The machines actually check a person's face, requiring them to move their face by doing things like smiling. Until then, the ammo is out of reach, meaning every round is secured, unlike at your local Walmart.

Now, I'm going to say the controversial thing that shouldn't be controversial: Even if it didn't, so what?

Ammunition is available over the counter in most states. In a handful of others, background checks are required.

Yet ammunition isn't serialized. What that means is that in a state like California, which requires background sales for ammunition, I could sell ammo by the pallet on the black market and unless I was actually caught doing so, there'd be almost no way to track it back to me. You can't find ammo on a bad guy, trace it, and knock on my door.

As such, anyone can straw buy ammo without concern.

Besides, if gun control works the way anti-gunners claim, then what difference does it make if people can get ammo? Bullets don't do much without a gun from which to fire them, after all.

Or is this opposition to the vending machines an admission that gun control doesn't work?