Here's an article in a photography forum on a judge striking down an FAA policy on model aircraft use, in which the craft was used for commercial photogrpahy.
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2014/03/14/judge-strikes-down-fine-against-drone-photographer?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_0
Here's the paragraph in the article that I found interesting (my emphasis added):
He then slammed the FAA for bringing a suit based on a policy memo as 'policy statements of an agency are not — aside from the fact that the guidance policy therein expressed is stated for internal FAA use — binding upon the general public.'
Aren't there a bunch of rules imposed by the BATFE that are just their "policy", and not actual law? Such as back in the '80s, declaring previously legal open-bolt guns as machine guns?
http://www.dpreview.com/news/2014/03/14/judge-strikes-down-fine-against-drone-photographer?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=news-list&utm_medium=text&ref=title_0_0
Here's the paragraph in the article that I found interesting (my emphasis added):
He then slammed the FAA for bringing a suit based on a policy memo as 'policy statements of an agency are not — aside from the fact that the guidance policy therein expressed is stated for internal FAA use — binding upon the general public.'
Aren't there a bunch of rules imposed by the BATFE that are just their "policy", and not actual law? Such as back in the '80s, declaring previously legal open-bolt guns as machine guns?
