"Can U.S. Citizen Shot Domestic Spy Drones?"
I've just read this post here on DailyTech.
First of all calling it as "Domestic Spy Drones" sounds tendentiously like a bad approach. [Edited] A friend of mine(Otávio Moraes) said that the word "domestic" is referring to native drones. Though it could also be translated as "homemade" which is why I said it sounds to be tendentious and/or ambiguous. Probably, that's due to the fact of the english language not being my native one.[/Edited]
Anyway, thinking about ballistics I'm wondering how dangerous would be shooting against "the sky" upon urban areas. Much probably a slug could eventually cause a biggest damage by "hard landing" on someone's head. Don't you think?
I could be wrong but it would be a classic situation when a problem is treated by another even bigger. You kill the cockroaches with poison and so you have a plague of scorpions. Not bad...
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I do airsoft as well, so I'm very close with the gun crowd. There is a huge amount of immaturity among gun owners, but you would really really have to try very hard to piss one off enough for them to start firing on your drone. Yes, they are sometimes drunk and sometimes they are also a little insane (9/11 truthers, birthers, and conspiracy nuts), but you've always got the protection that you should not generally be where they are.
I also don't see this as much of a risk. There is the odd trigger happy redneck in my area, but honestly .... I don't think I'm at any risk of being shot down anytime soon. I can see a risk if I was flying in my backyard in a populated area, but I'm not going to do that. I used to my 400 heli in my backyard, but I did check with the neighbors first and I never took it above head height. In reality the only people that are really at risk of being shot down are the moron crowd who try to use drones to piss people off or invade peoples privacy. This isn't us.
I think it is quite childish to talk about using firearms and weapons to shoot anything, especially an aircraft or any sort out of the sky. And I have said my piece, and still seen little value to keeping this immature discussion going.
Hai, I'm not a lawyer, in any country, so I would not know. I'm not endorsing anything here. We are just discussing scenarios, in the virtual world. What people do in the real world is between them, their governments, and their respective God and/or gods.
I think it's useful to talk about situations that drones can be in which can result in them annoying people to the point so they would want to take any legal means to remove them from their airspace. This can help the community build some guidelines as to how not to cause bad publicity and sentiment for our hobby. It should not be about an arms race.
Back my previous comment, talking about using firearms and weapons does not seem appropriate or in thr public intetest in this forum and I will start exercising some moderation very soon
Is there anything useful being contributed to this discussion? Where is the community value of talking about people shooting down drones with weapons including firearms? I think if we're going to not discuss arming drones, then the whole concept of discussing the use of firearms and weapons against drones is not in the public interest.
In many countries, discharging a firearm with intent to cause property damage is a serious offense, regardless of if it's annoying yoy , on your property or not. For that matter, I seriously doubt any judge is going to consider responding to said annoyance using a firearm anything less than use of excessive force.
In my opinion, just use a water hose. Avoids law enforcement having to worry about firearms being involved.
I think what will Anger people to the point they will attack drones is "Annoyance". I think it will go from "Hey look there is a Drone ! That is pretty cool !" to That thing is a pain in the Butt I am going to take it out . Around here What peeves the neighborhood right now is Dirt bikes .and Snow mobiles If the dirt bike or snow mobile goes by no problem people hear it go by . 3 hours later they hear it go by the other way (the guy is coming back ) no problem . It is when they are just across the street or just up the road continuously going back and forth that people get Annoyed and complain. it will be the same with drones if they get to prolific there will be "Drone Nappers "
people out to bring drones down and sell the parts for scrap on E Bay!
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