A company has installed computerized vending machines to sell ammunition in grocery stores in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas, allowing patrons to pick up bullets along with a gallon of milk. Do you think ammunition should be sold in grocery stores?

American Rounds said their machines use an identification scanner and facial recognition software to verify the purchaser's age and are as "quick and easy" to use as a computer tablet. But advocates worry that selling bullets out of vending machines will lead to more shootings in the U.S., where gun violence killed at least 33 people on Independence Day alone. The company maintains the age-verification technology means that the transactions are as secure, or more secure, than online sales, which may not require the purchaser to submit proof of age, or at retail stores, where there is a risk of shoplifting. Do you think vending machine sales of ammuntion with an identification scanner and facial recognition software are just as safe as online or in store sales?

CEO Grant Magers said much of the early interest for the machines has been in rural communities where there may be few retailers that sell ammunition. "Someone in that community might have to drive an hour or an hour and a half to get supplied if they want to go hunting, for instance," Margers said. If you are against ammunition vending machines, does knowing that it could help supply hunters change your mind?

Would you feel comfortable if there was an ammunition vending machine in your grocery store?