Another drone shooting. This is not going to go away.

Hillview man arrested for shooting down drone; cites right to pr - WDRB 41 Louisville News

I think the authorities acted a little (ok, a lot) over zealously, but they really have no current legal guidance.
If it turns out we have no expectation of aerial privacy, our homes and the land they sit on are going to look very different in the future.
These things must easy to damage as I have seen several of these stories and not every shooter was a skeet or trap champion.


Found this: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27-2WDIZR0[/ame]
 
No. We like our privacy and our freedom and are not afraid to defend it.

I haven't melted in a long time.
 
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25 posts starting in 2015

Let's be fair, Watchdog...25 posts on this, and two since you said this?

"This is apparently another of those threads that will not die."

That's a fair amount of dead horse beating!
 
I am amazed at the number of people that post about the ILLEGAL action they may take. Good idea to keep information of your activity to yourself.
As far as the worry of someone looking at their bikini clad daughters, don't those same daughters ever go to a public pool?
 
Let's be fair, Watchdog...25 posts on this, and two since you said this?

"This is apparently another of those threads that will not die."

That's a fair amount of dead horse beating!

The thread's over two years old. The horse is beyond dead. It should be allowed to rest in peace.

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When's the season opener????
I used to shoot a bit of skeet before bird season(s) and it occurs to me that an enhanced target for this kind of practice would be a small hand sized drone.
Both Star Wars and Dune used a device like this for martial practice.
Inexpensive would be an advantage too.
Maybe packaged so as to be launchable from the normal clay thrower.
 
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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. "

I was mapping some habitat rehab projects as part of the final status report for Congress. Several were small areas within the City, so I took a look at my home. Could identify my larger GSP in the back yard!
 
My thought

I didn't read through all 298 replies. My thought is, foremost, is it legal to discharge a firearm in the specific area whether or not you're shooting at a drone? If it is illegal to discharge a firearm, then shooting at a drone will get you criminal penalties because you might find it difficult to meet the standards for lawful deadly force that would justify the use of a firearm.
 
If it is illegal to discharge a firearm, then shooting at a drone will get you criminal penalties because you might find it difficult to meet the standards for lawful deadly force that would justify the use of a firearm.

Luckily, I live where better than 70% of my neighbors have shooting benches,,,

There is a LOT of skeet shooting,, each weekend that the weather is nice,,

Yesterday, at least 3 families were shotgun shooting,, I was shooting a rimfire pistol.

A drone NEVER flies over,, it would not last long,,,
 
How about just don't be a worm and not fly over my property? If you do, then you lose your drone. Consider it ballistically confiscated. Enough said. Whine all you want from outside the perimeter. You aren't allowed to walk there, don't fly there. People that have these things and feel the need to fly over other's homes and property are lacking something mentally, morally and spiritually. No better than a peeping Tom and just as worthy of ill will.
 
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