I agree! From The Verge:
In today's Senate drone hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) got personal, describing a rally held outside her home earlier this year. "I went to the window to peek out, and there was a drone right there looking in. Obviously the drone's pilot was surprised, because the drone wheeled around and crashed," she told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. "What kind of camera was on the drone? What kind of microphone? Could an enterprising person have attached a firearm to it?"
The hearing mostly concerned with the FAA's roadmap for regulating civilian drone use, spurred on by Amazon's recent announcement of a drone delivery program. But Senator Feinstein used her time to specifically speak out specifically against the prospect of private citizens equipping drones with deadly force, potentially opening the door for a new legislative avenue regulating the unmanned crafts. "We should not allow armed drones in the United States, period," the Senator told the committee. "It should be a crime for a private individual to arm a drone."
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It should be a crime for private individual without commons sense to become a Senator!
It MUST be put to law!
isn't it still legal to have rifles? so if legal in civilian's hands but illegal in a drone piloted by the same one, where in between those two locations it happens the change? why dont you start from the arms prohibition and then just highlighting that remotely operated arms are forbidden consequently
Unneeded laws are the grandstanding fuel of petty bureaucrats and tyrants and are not the "only way" to do anything. Bad idea.There are a whole stack of federal, state and local laws in the US that any cop, DA or prosecutor could choose from to deal with a gun-toting drone, starting with felonious construction of a destructive device and going down from there to displaying/brandishing a deadly weapon, etc. etc. etc. You also want to be super careful about unintended consequences. Lipos can and have been classified as hazardous materials and a poorly written law might be applied by an overzealous enforcer to simply ground everything containing such.
Not even going to waste my breath on this one....
Well we'll exclude senators! Only the government should be allowed to arm drones.
I dunno, I actually agree with her. Let's make it ABSOLUTELY clear that this is illegal. We have already seen evidence on Youtube that some people haven't figured it out yet.
This seems like it would be a completely reasonable law to me. I'm all for the creation of reasonable laws. It's the only way to avoid the creation of unreasonable laws in a knee-jerk reaction to an incident.
If anything, its dangerous hazard to even attempt attaching a gun to a drone.
It should be a crime for a private individual to arm anything. Himself included.
Senator,
Any car could be (and really are) used to attach bombs.
So let's ban them from use on the streets!
I know it would be nice to have a senator stand up and point out the long list of existing laws capable of preventing such things from occurring, but there simply seems to be little milage in taking such a sensible and well reasoned approach to this incredibly polarising issue.
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