Thankfully without confinement in a barrel cooked off ammo is a lot less dangerous than you might think.

Though you'd still not want to stand near it.

This is so unrealistic. No American would say 40 meters.

Is this real or parody ?

That vending machine anime is about to get a lot less lighthearted.

This is just one step away from a literal Budget Arms Slaught-O-Matic dispenser. Mike Pondsmith wrote Cyberpunk as satire, not as a rough guide to the future.

I hate to put the joke into the cruel light of reality but ammunition does not shoot when burned, the whole first name for brass cased ammo was "safety rounds" due to the design of the round being crimped means the brass will break open and nothing will shoot out when set off outside of a chamber. A round needs a to be chambered to "shoot" the projectile. When you hear about ammunition "cooking off" what is actually happening is the container the ammo in is acts like a pressure vessel and becoming a bomb. When people are hit with things in an ammo cook off its actually shrapnel (the container) doing most of the damage.

So in this case it would be the vending machine parts flying into people not the .50 cal rounds "blasting people". And the funny (and very american) thing is that the big old freedom box would be deadly but the racks and racks of unsecured ammo on shelves in cardboard boxes would not be. In fact the more heavy duty and secure you built the vending machine the worst it would be. But who knows maybe they have blast panels on this thing, making it the most over engineered solution to a problem no one should have.

Well, I guess we'll never need to ask "why's there ammo everywhere in video games?" Because we put it there. Have you not seen the vending machines?!

You have to show ID to buy ammo? The terrorists have won...

Don't Americans dare say, that Japan has weird vending machines.

"When you think murder, think Marcus Munitions!"

borderlands real

That's not really what bullets do without a chamber or barrel. Also that is pretty clearly a fireproof safe.

when they did this in borderlands it was a joke about how gun obsessed their insanely murderous culture was

now the colonizers are the joke irl

“Caveat Emptor!”

Ammo pack for the shooters

I thought ammo vending machines were just a video game trope.