Little drones from hobby stores are considered aircraft and the box you stand on when flying it are aircraft facilities and your home where you keep it??? WOW !!!
You can fly without getting a license?
When were these declared an aircraft that would be covered in this law?
I be cornfussed… 
There is a special category for assaulting the operator of a drone that come into play over & above the normal assault of anybody laws?
:eek:
I see armed drones coming to a neighborhood near you.
I’d be very surprised if those quadcopter toys met the definition of “aircraft” as defined by that law.
“sets fire to, damages, destroys, disables, or wrecks any aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States or any civil aircraft used, operated, or employed in interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce;”
No, but she attacked him specifically because he was flying a drone & she *thought *he was spying on her. In actuality, he was flying up & down the beach at an altitude that almost made it difficult to tell the race/sex of the people on the beach. GoPro’s can shoot some amazing HD video; however, they’re designed for wide-angle shooting & absolutely suck at magnification (telephoto/zoom). If you wanted to get pix of someone on a beach, you’re much better off walking past them with your cell phone recording in video mode than shooting them from a drone.
They are considered “unmanned aircraft systems”; there is no distinction (that I know of) between the $40 2" toy & something the military uses, like the USAF’s Reaper, which is 66’ wide, 36’ long, & can fire missle(s).
Oh boy! Some court cases about who owns the airspace up to 150’ above private property.
Yeah, those cases made me fall right out of my chair…
Can you imagine what it will be like when the paparazzi take to these things in mass?
I’d probably use a shoe.
The question is how many points do you get?
Do you get more points for the big ones because they are bigger or more points for the small ones because they are more difficult to hit?
If it is at an altitude that suggests peeping, I am destroying it. To me, that is no different from some pervert with a ladder and a camera peeping in windows. Want your expensive toy in one piece? Keep it out of my yard and away from my windows or I posilutely absotively guarantee it’s destruction.
Cybertanks?
from a slingshot?
The SDMB just keeps getting* stranger…*
Sorry, bolas. We always called them “bolos” when I was a kid. Although to be fair, an AI-controlled Continental Defense Unit with infinite repeaters would handle the drone situation nicely, but they’re kind of hard on the landscaping.
10 ga, BB to BBB, lead shot. I can’t full choke steel so get the lead out!
I’d imagine any good duck load would work as well.
Seriously though; is there any indication that say… a skeet load of #8 wouldn’t do a number on a quad copter drone, or is it more a matter of range?
I’d venture range. A drone can’t be any more resiliant than a dove or quail and 8s work fine on them.
At the altitudes at which they concern me, I bet you could bring one down with a paintball gun.
Yeah, I don’t think that code covers it, but it looks like the NTSB has ruled that drones are aircraft:
http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2014/12/01/grounded-ntsb-rules-unmanned-drone-an-aircraft-sub
Serious answer: Goose loads. 3 or 3.5 12 gauge shells. Black Cloud, Kent Steel, Hevi-Shot are all top quality brands. With the right choke, a 90% on-target pattern at 40-50 yards is achievable. Extended range chokes are available, but no matter what, you’d want a waterfowl choke that can stand up to the load you select – especially when you’re using these non-lead BBs.
And if you’re doing this out of a pump action - that doesn’t use any of the recoil energy to cycle like a semi-auto - get a nice butt pad to save your shoulder.
“And over here we can see a fine example of “Internet Blowhard”. They are not an endangered species. You may have encountered them yourself in the wild.”
I don’t know where you live, Mr A-A, but you fire a shotgun in the city, you’ll get a nice visit from the local police.
Of course, you’ll never do anything at all, so this discussion is all academic.
My stepdad got one for Christmas that was $1500 and it transmits and records video in real time. It’s expensive enough that a person would seek compensation, and the video could make it an open and shut case.