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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.
A boom is a boom, and the .50 cal rounds got more boom powder in one spot. Them bitches will contribute a lot to the blast.
And those bullets from those rounds are gonna move in a blast so it'll be vending machine parts AND bullets.
It also says "blasts everyone" not "shoots everyone"
So uh, the joke still works.
And I must agree this is an overengineered solution to a problem that didn't exist that potentially causes more problems. But of course the problem they were trying to solve was likely, "How do we sell ammo in large quantities, hot dogs, AND beer in the same place without having to open a new store?" And so, we get an ammo vending machine placed right next to hot dog and burger buns right near the meat section lol
Fun part is when you look at non us places that sell ammo they don't have this issue, I have been in general stores that do sell all 3 items and would never, ever think to do this. Somehow the us manages to be the worst of both no firearm safety knowledge and also thinking everyone should have a firearm.