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Old 08-03-2015, 10:18 AM
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Wasn't there witnesses that saw it looking under the neighbors canopy? neighbors have a 20 story house?
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"I don't get those suggesting that shooting a drone is like shooting a person."

I am not sure anyone has suggested exactly that.

The main legal problem is that the FAA views shooting a drone the same as shooting an airplane and consequently takes a very dim view of it.
This then raises the question to the FAA of why drones are not currently regulated the same as airplanes (pilot training, license, flight rules, etc.).
I am sure they are trying hard to make this so but the hardware is evolving faster than the glacial pace of bureaucracy can keep up.

The second legal problem is whatever local statutes exist covering the discharge of firearms at your house (if any).
These are all over the map (pun intended) and going to be the first thing to incur the wrath of your gendarmerie.

As with any other self defense situation, one needs to know all the rules.
This can be a third problem, as we have seen, as the authorities make rules up on the spot.
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This is what happens when our laws don't protect our privacy and right to peace in our own homes. I mean, who really wants some unknown creep hovering over his backyard casing the joint, or taking pictures of his children. The homeowner has no knowledge of the intentions of the drone owner when this happens. Is it a rapist, robber, kidnap planner or just a garden variety garden pervert taking pictures?
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I don't get those suggesting that shooting a drone is like shooting a person. If I see a peeping tom looking over my privacy fence with binoculars or a periscope, I'm going to snatch it, and he ain't getting it back from me, maybe the cops will give it back to him. And if I dropped it, oh, so sorry.
The potential for any individual risking creating a legal/civil problem for themselves probably will depend on the laws governing their intended deliberate actions, and sometimes these things may not be as easily lumped together as the average person "reacting in the spur of the moment" might suspect, and later come to realize, to their regret.

For example ...

Discharging a firearm in other than clearly defined allowable circumstances (shooting range, allowable private range as may be defined by local ordinance, hunting, etc) may be subject to laws which define the discharge as something including the use of deadly force, especially in a deliberately negligent manner.

Also, forcible taking the property of someone, especially from their person, may create a situation where it might be considered anything from a simple theft, up to a robbery (no weapon used, but done by physical force and/or fear, with resistance on the part of the victim, etc).

Suspicion that rude behavior on the part of someone automatically makes it unlawful behavior, does not automatically mean that it is, or that the professed "victim" may therefore react in any manner they "feel is right".

Even if someone manages to avoid the expense and time of being on the wrong end of criminal action, that may still expose them to civil action. The standards needed to be found guilty in a criminal action are usually much more strict than losing in a civil action.

In other words, common sense and the presence of mind of the "reasonable person" sometimes seem to flee in the presence of someone reacting in an emotional, and perhaps ill considered "But I don't think that's right and I'm going to DO something about it!!!" response to a situation.

Thinking about the probable prudent response to these sort of situations in advance might, or might not, help some people learn how to better regulate their desired responses. Learning from the example and experience of other persons might also be illuminating.

In the final result, we're apparently still graduating students from law school at a brisk pace, and they can even take subsequent courses to help them pass the bar in their chosen states. They've got to find work, right?
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I think the authorities acted a little (ok, a lot) over zealously, but they really have no current legal guidance.
Not true. While the FAA claims, thru FAA regulations, all airspace over 300 Ft AGL, federal law says a property owner owns the airspace over their property, period.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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Sorry Yosemite Sam!



Here's a positive News Story to make you feel a little better!

But, I am sure if your kids were on that beach you'll be chasing that drone with your gun drawn and shooting while running and screaming "spy, spy!!!"

Drone used to spot sharks in Seal Beach | abc7.com

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How did he endanger property?

And some yokel shooting a shotgun up into the air in a neighborhood doesn't constitute any sort of danger, no matter how slight? Yeah, okay.
You DO realize that shotgun pellets don't cause harm when they come down, don't you?
I've had pellets come down on me on dove hunts (from someone who wasn't supposed to be on the property) and they didn't hurt at all.
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They need to do away with these things before some dumb*** lets one get sucked into a jet engine and it goes down and kills 4-500 folk all because the DA wanted to get some cool pics of something or somebodys kid or god knows what looking through the window of someones home or let the thing get away from him Etc. as far as him using a shotgun to shoot into the air , smart , very smart ! they shot becomes non lethal very quickly from any shotgun at a distance where a solid projectile could travel vast distance and kill someone , they could reclassify the Drones as a NFA Item Destructive Device with a 1000 dollar tax ! I am sure the interest in ownership would drop rapidly , as far as the guy goes I hope he gets off and that is that ! if he was able to shotgun it , it was way to close to his property to begin with , its one thing to fly a helicopter over a mans place at a normal altitude another for it to hover in shotgun range trying to look in his window or at something in his backyard just goes to show they is always something or someone to bother u if more people worked or had to work they wouldn't have time for all this Nonsense
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The drone owner is claiming his 'craft' never got below a hundred and ninety three feet (193 ft.)
Not being a drone owner, I have to wonder if it's even possible to know the exact altitude.
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I bet you could duck tape a green laser on this and take out a drone at a hundred yards!


Assault with a deadly potato?
A tennis ball or a load of gumballs would be good for drone bustin with a spud gun.
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Here's a positive News Story to make you feel a little better!

But, I am sure if your kids were on that beach you'll be chasing that drone with your gun drawn and shooting while running and screaming "spy, spy!!!"

Drone used to spot sharks in Seal Beach | abc7.com

Shirley ye jest,




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This is a fun thread, with so many emotions on all three sides of the issue

what with all the leg pullin and joshin going on, ya'd think it was a neighborhood bar


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Here's a positive News Story to make you feel a little better!

But, I am sure if your kids were on that beach you'll be chasing that drone with your gun drawn and shooting while running and screaming "spy, spy!!!"

Drone used to spot sharks in Seal Beach | abc7.com
That makes no sense.. its not your property (unless you own the beach) So you have no right to shoot at it. You go somewhere and you are at the mercy of the world where you are located!
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You DO realize that shotgun pellets don't cause harm when they come down, don't you?
I've had pellets come down on me on dove hunts (from someone who wasn't supposed to be on the property) and they didn't hurt at all.
I agree with you on this as I been rained on with shot while duck hunting a lot. Opening day on a public slew can be like a rain storm. Best to just wear a long billed cap and safety glasses. Don
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Good reason not to hunt on public property!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for reminding me. I'd completely forgotten that shooting off guns into the air in a neighborhood is just good clean all-American fun for all the ignorant yahoos who don't know any better.
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I've had pellets come down on me on dove hunts (from someone who wasn't supposed to be on the property) and they didn't hurt at all.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Gen. Julian Hatcher resolved this way back.....

It's referred to a "terminal velocity."

"A bullet fired straight up will slow down, stop, then fall to earth again,
accelerating until it reaches a point where its weight equals the resistance of the air.
That's its terminal velocity."

A shotgun pellet would be no more that a hail stone of equal weight.


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Gen. Julian Hatcher resolved this way back.....

It's referred to a "terminal velocity."

"A bullet fired straight up will slow down, stop, then fall to earth again,
accelerating until it reaches a point where its weight equals the resistance of the air.
That's its terminal velocity."

A shotgun pellet would be no more that a hail stone of equal weight.


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I don't get the whole hatred of drones. I have a small fleet of them. 2 of them I built from scratch.

Kids and some of us who never grew up like to drive radio controlled cars. I have a fleet of those too. Some of them even has gas engines (glow fuel), and they aren't slow.

I've always wanted to fly R/C planes, but there's just not enough room to take off and land here. My multi rotors take off and land vertically. I've shot a bunch of scenic pictures with them, but most of the time, I'm just flying around for fun without a camera. Just flying.

We forum members have a hobby that a lot of people want to ban. I'm surprised that so many of us are all up in arms about radio controlled flight. Maybe, it'd be worth your while to take a turn flying a cheap copter and see how much fun it is.

Can drones be used for nefarious purposes? Sure, and those nefarious people need to be dealt with. We as gun lovers make that same argument about our guns.

I'm not a spy or pervert, I just like to fly. Just like I like collecting and shooting guns... Believe it or not, it's satisfying to take a handful of kindling and bundle of wires and motors and build something from scratch, then watch it take to the air. My neighbors usually gather around whenever I fly. It's fun just to watch them fly around the neighborhood.

We don't get much snow here in Georgia, but all of the neighbors wanted pics of their houses when we had a 6" snowfall earlier this year. Here's a "selfie" of me in my yard full of snow. There's nothing "spy worthy" in this shot at all.

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R/C pilots and car drivers are just like shooters, reloads, ATV riders, hunters, and fishermen (I'm all of the above); we just want to enjoy our hobby in peace and we don't all want to be painted as the bad guy just because our hobby has the potential for mischief.

Name a hobby aside from maybe needlecraft that some jerk ISN'T trying to ban.
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Nahhhhhh......... I wouldn't do that.

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Number 7 1/2 shot impacts at the same velocity, if and when free falling from 500 feet as it would from 5 feet within the same air density.

Something about Newton's second law or thar bouts. I think.



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Kids and some of us who never grew up like to drive radio controlled cars. I have a fleet of those too. Some of them even has gas engines (glow fuel), and they aren't slow.

I've always wanted to fly R/C planes, but there's just not enough room to take off and land here. My multi rotors take off and land vertically. I've shot a bunch of scenic pictures with them, but most of the time, I'm just flying around for fun without a camera. Just flying.

We forum members have a hobby that a lot of people want to ban. I'm surprised that so many of us are all up in arms about radio controlled flight. Maybe, it'd be worth your while to take a turn flying a cheap copter and see how much fun it is.

Can drones be used for nefarious purposes? Sure, and those nefarious people need to be dealt with. We as gun lovers make that same argument about our guns.

I'm not a spy or pervert, I just like to fly. Just like I like collecting and shooting guns... Believe it or not, it's satisfying to take a handful of kindling and bundle of wires and motors and build something from scratch, then watch it take to the air. My neighbors usually gather around whenever I fly. It's fun just to watch them fly around the neighborhood.

We don't get much snow here in Georgia, but all of the neighbors wanted pics of their houses when we had a 6" snowfall earlier this year. Here's a "selfie" of me in my yard full of snow. There's nothing "spy worthy" in this shot at all.

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R/C pilots and car drivers are just like shooters, reloads, ATV riders, hunters, and fishermen (I'm all of the above); we just want to enjoy our hobby in peace and we don't all want to be painted as the bad guy just because our hobby has the potential for mischief.

Name a hobby aside from maybe needlecraft that some jerk ISN'T trying to ban.
I am into the RC thing also and have been since 1966. I have 4X4 trucks and planes and helo. I would have a drone but I keep spending all my retirement money on guns and reloading. Anything can be used wrong knitting needles can be deadly or a sharp stick as far as that goes. Don
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R/C pilots and car drivers are just like shooters, reloads, ATV riders, hunters, and fishermen (I'm all of the above); we just want to enjoy our hobby in peace and we don't all want to be painted as the bad guy just because our hobby has the potential for mischief.

Name a hobby aside from maybe needlecraft that some jerk ISN'T trying to ban.
I am not a "jerk". I am a land owner that wants to enjoy my land in peace and don't want to be painted as a bad guy because some "jerk" wants to use my land for his hobby. I have my own land for my hobbies or I belong to a club that has the land and I expect the same respect and considerations from other people. Larry
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I don't get the whole hatred of drones. I have a small fleet of them. 2 of them I built from scratch...

Name a hobby aside from maybe needlecraft that some jerk ISN'T trying to ban.
I appreciate the technology, and would like to build one myself for photo/video purposes. They're pretty neat. The problem lies in the fact that drones can so quickly be used in invade privacy. There's such a well of resentment in the country against the govt for spying and collecting data, even against red light cameras, I think a lot of folks are smoldering over how much privacy we've lost. And then someone flies a drone over your backyard or land, filming you or your family?

The drone hobby is going to suffer the anger that's festering already over being 'over surveillanced'. I think if folks keep them on their own land and out of other's lives they might be ok. But the near future a lot of laws are coming that'll regulate drones just because of privacy concerns. In fact, because cameras can zoom in from so far now, some states may ban cameras on drones period. If you're flying in your backyard but filming two women in their backyard pool 75 yards away, you're still a peeping tom and could still get your craft shot down.

This'll be interesting to see how it all plays out legally, but I think that the drone hobby's worst enemy will be drone owners...

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Something about Newton's second law or thar bouts. I think.
Think it was Galileo who started thinking about terminal velocity.
He posited that everything would have the same velocity in a vacuum although he had no way of testing that.

NASA has a cool page and app you may be able to calculate the terminal velocity of that shot:
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I can't get the in-browser Java app to work what with all the security I have in place.
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I guess I don't understand how this works. I recall in my law classes that as a homeowner or landowner, you owned from infinity and beyond as far as the air above your home was concerned.

Much the way that if a neighbors tree is overhanging your property, by law you could cut the part down overhanging, although may not be neighborly.
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I should note I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV.
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This drone thing is breaking new ground as they get more affordable for the average person.

Personally, if it flying so it can peek in to my windows to check out what's happening, it's gonna get taken out with a bat or something. Flying over head is one thing, playing "peeping tom" is another.
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I guess I don't understand how this works.
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. Judging by some of the comments, apparently lots of folks apparently don't.

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I recall in my law classes that as a homeowner or landowner, you owned from infinity and beyond as far as the air above your home was concerned.
Well, if that's the case, maybe I'll go outside and take a few potshots at the International Space Station when it's overhead.



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Too bad it's illegal to discharge a firearm in this county. But I'm pretty good with a slingshot.
I was expressing this very same sentiment to my wife just the other night when we were discussing what I would do.
I have, and am very good with, an old wrist rocket. I have several doz. steel ball bearings that should take down one of those Aerial peeping toms with no problems. I also have several nice hardwood baseball bats for when the prep's come looking for their toy.
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Here is another solution:
Caught! Fisherman manages to reel in a drone flying high above San Diego pier  | Daily Mail Online
The title is a little misleading as he did not "reel it in".
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Ok-he's Cheney.

For a second I thought you were dissing either the old actor or one of my old barbers of years past.
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I used to shoot starlings off of my neighbors roof with an RWS scoped air rifle. That's the ticket in town with firearms restrictions. The neighbor never knew what was going, she just told me lots of birds were dying in her yard.

If I can take a starling off of a roof at 100' I'm pretty sure I can take a drone out without much difficulty. .17 caliber, 1000' fps and silent. Even if you did hear it most people wouldn't know what it was.

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I don't understand why if pilots have to be licensed and the planes registered to operate aircraft and HAM Radio operators and even the GSM radios have to be registered to operate on the air waves the FAA does NOT require all drone operators to register with the federal government and if NOT flying their drones in approved airspaces have to go to a web site and register the location, and time/duration purpose of their flights?

It would be MUCH simpler to regulate and to prosecute misuse by simply requiring HAM Radio operator type licensing of drone pilots.

An Amateur Drone Association could be formed, it would administer tests including WRITTEN and FLIGHT demonstration tests.
Equiptment could be regulated by weight/capability and increasing tests and certifications including professional ones would apply for drone piloting.

IF pilots are collecting data and have sensors and cameras they would need to report it in the licensing requirements and if they fly outside test areas approved for use, they would have to file flight plans which include what data was collected for what purpose.

To keep them from selling data it would be a crime to use the data for business purpose without a business license and all data collected would have to be made publicly available. SINCE they are using a public resource the Air Space.

Our congress is intentionally doing a bad job to allow law enforcement and technology developers to run amuck and abuse drones to collect information they would normally need a warrant for and to allow the industry to develop unregulated.
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Sure, a Google satellite image isn't real time. My point is (was) that if someone wants to "spy" on you, there's very little can be done about it. Don't think there aren't satellites or other forms of aerial surveillance that can't watch you in real time. A drone, for instance, hovering over your home at...oh, say 1500 feet or 2000 feet that can watch you when you're outside, and can see infrared images of you inside.

That's no doomsday paranoia on my part, either...just the facts.
I didn't know we were talking about 1500 to 2000 feet!! You are talking about a quarter of a mile. The article I read said the drone was looking under the neighbors back deck covering! That is wrong on any level you wish to push it! The drone becomes a target!

You sound like a person who may own a drone..................

Your turn..................
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And did not hovered.

If that is a true fact....Purty darn good scatter gun shooting.
Really? Shooting something at 64 yards is impressive shooting? Seems pretty normal to me. We hit things a lot smaller than the average quadcopter at that same distance every weekend.

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That's no doomsday paranoia on my part, either...just the facts.
Facts? You've been watching too much TV. An infrared camera cannot see inside your house.

They can't even see through glass:
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It is a chance to make some big money. Find a computer whiz kid, get him to design a Drone Jamming program, have a transmitter built and sell them, make millions. I can see the TV ads; a drone peeking in a girl's window, her Dad pulls out a device aims it at the drone it crashes breaking into bits, flash the ad to the drone operator, frustrated, dashes his controller to the ground and stomps away. Buy one get one free just pay separate S&H (enough to cover the cost of the second "free" Jammer)
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I think the authorities acted a little (ok, a lot) over zealously, but they really have no current legal guidance...
Well, from the very beginning of the news video, the first shots are from a large field/greenbelt behind this man's property. That greenbelt could very well be a perfect place to fly drones and possibly other radio-controlled model aircraft (handlaunch sailplanes, helicopters... just to name a couple).

Just as an earlier poster noted, I used to be a member of AMA and built and flew many RC sailplanes with wingspans anywhere from ~3ft to 14ft tip-to-tip. And yes, I could have easily landed in the pictured greenbelt area videoed by the news crew at the beginning of the story.

That said, the homeowner sounds like he may have an unshared longstanding dislike for folks using that greenbelt for hobby aircraft RIGHT BEHIND "his" property, on undeveloped land.

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