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If I peacefully fly a gun drone over your neighborhood I am simply exercising my second Amendment rights. It's no different from me sitting on the street in front of your house with a bunch of weapons. I can walk behind you or follow you in a car as long as I am behaving peacefully.
I'm not worried about the government as much as I am domestic terrorists. Can you put an automatic weapon on one? Even if inaccurate, with enough people around that wont' matter. Can you attach an explosive to them? A vial of Anthrax powder?
RC cars have been modified into explosive devices. Yes, a drone could be modified thus as well. Easier than it can be made to carry a firearm. Thing is, explosives are tricky. I would assume that modifying a drone or RC car to carry a charge, would use a remote detonator, linked to a radio frequency. Someone word be taking a big risk, with all the electronics floating around out there, that it wouldn't catch a whiff and just go boom.
I wouldnt be so enthusiastic about trying to make a drone or RC car bomb. To many ifs., ands and buts. However, the potential is there to do so. As to building a drone into an effective gun platform, several ideas pop into my head. Given enough money and a bit of time, I think I could do it. I've seen 22LR 22 mag scale models of the M2 machine gun, in semi auto , that might lend themselves quite well to that, but, why I'd actually build such a thing eludes me.
It would be pretty expensive, and not have any practical purpose, beyond strafing milk jugs full of water on the range. It might be mildly entertaining, for a short time, but that's about it. I can see Hollywood running with this. It might make for a cool scene in some action flick. Like the robot Gerard Butler used in Law Abiding Citizen. Beyond that, meh.....
If I peacefully fly a gun drone over your neighborhood I am simply exercising my second Amendment rights. It's no different from me sitting on the street in front of your house with a bunch of weapons. I can walk behind you or follow you in a car as long as I am behaving peacefully.
Nope. Many governmental bodies already place restrictions upon private drone usage. In Texas for example, you can't fly your private drone over private property without permission of the owner.
So while it's legal for you to carry your camera around and even to take pictures of private properties from street level, you can't attach it to a drone and fly it over someone's house.
Just to clarify, the Texas law specifically regulates the use of private drones to capture images of private property. "Image" includes sound waves, infrared, uv, electromagnetic, and thermal images.
Of course ALL drones capture images (there's currently no way to remotely operate a drone w/o using them) so that means you can't fly your gun over my property. That includes the streets in my neighborhood because they are privately owned by the HOA.
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I'm not worried about the government as much as I am domestic terrorists. Can you put an automatic weapon on one? Even if inaccurate, with enough people around that wont' matter. Can you attach an explosive to them? A vial of Anthrax powder?
Yes actually, you can. It was done a couple of years ago on the show "Sons of Guns" so I'm a bit confused at all the shock now...
Nope. Many governmental bodies already place restrictions upon private drone usage. In Texas for example, you can't fly your private drone over private property without permission of the owner.
So while it's legal for you to carry your camera around and even to take pictures of private properties from street level, you can't attach it to a drone and fly it over someone's house.
Just to clarify, the Texas law specifically regulates the use of private drones to capture images of private property. "Image" includes sound waves, infrared, uv, electromagnetic, and thermal images.
Of course ALL drones capture images (there's currently no way to remotely operate a drone w/o using them) so that means you can't fly your gun over my property. That includes the streets in my neighborhood because they are privately owned by the HOA.
Remember, you'd have to find the drone owner first in order to prosecute. As most drones can be flown via FPV over a mile away from their owner I'd say "good luck with that".
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but where's the line? Should the public have missiles? Nuclear weapons in their garage?
Why not? At least it would show how ridiculous the 2nd Amendment is, and that it needs... amending. It refers to arms, not firearms. Arms includes grenades, hand held rocket launchers and the like. That's why the 2nd Amendment is preposterous for a civilized society.
Remember, you'd have to find the drone owner first in order to prosecute. As most drones can be flown via FPV over a mile away from their owner I'd say "good luck with that".
That's not the issue. I was responding to the poster who stated it is legal to fly drones over private property. It may be where s/he lives but not in Texas.
Got any references that say it's inaccurate? Looks to me that it's staying right on target even with the recoil.
It may look accurate, but a handgun is accurate when you have the front sight on the target. There's no way to ensure the front sight is on target, so while it may look on target, I bet the actual hit location varies quite a bit once you shoot at something more than 5-10 yards away.
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Remember, you'd have to find the drone owner first in order to prosecute. As most drones can be flown via FPV over a mile away from their owner I'd say "good luck with that".
I bet it's easier than you think to locate a drone owner when you consider fingerprints and serial numbers. A manufacturer can tell you where a certain batch of product was shipped to. Go to that store, and ask to see receipts (Did you use your credit card or a check?) and CCTV (What do you look like? Does the public know you through a released photo?). I'm sure there aren't a huge number of drones sold, so someone is going to know who's flying drones in a certain area.
You'd be surprised how many people unintentionally leave a clue that easily traces things back to them. I once solved a multi-state credit card fraud ring because the person using fraudulent credit cards let her sister go shopping with her once, and the sister used her real credit card for her purchase at the store next door to where the crime occurred. We saw them get in the car together to leave. A quick talk to the sister about her shopping trip revealed her sister was with her, and we had an ID on our suspect.
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It was done a couple of years ago on the show "Sons of Guns" so I'm a bit confused at all the shock now...
