What is the limit and how do you cook them?

[cda]

In the small Colorado town of Deer Trail, residents may soon be allowed to shoot down flying robots. The town board is considering an ordinance that would not only permit people with hunting licenses to fire bullets at drones, but would also pay them $100 for each mechanical hide with federal markings.

Sidestepping the fact that destroying government drones like this is a federal crime, bullets fired skyward have a very poor public health record when they plummet back to the ground. Federal policy already rules out armed drone strikes against American citizens within the U.S. (provided the Americans are not enemy combatants) so there's a very real chance that more people would die from missed anti-drone bullets than would be killed by drones domestically.

Of course, that's assuming the point of the anti-drone ordinance is to shoot down drones. Instead, like many attention-grabbing drone stories, this is almost a gimmick of a protest. The permits cost $25, and I wouldn't be surprised if people from all over America bought drone hunting licenses for the novelty or symbolic value. In any case, Predator drones fly at 25,000 feet, or almost ten times higher than the longest confirmed accurate rifle shot fired by a human.

Drone News | Colorado Town Opens Bounty On Drones | Popular Science

 

[north star]

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"Predator [ ?? ] drones"

Maybe the novelty licenses shouldn`t be so novel !......Wasthis a "Freudian Slip ?.......Are they predatory, or unmanned

surveillance aircraft ?

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[tmurray]

~ = ~Maybe the novelty licenses shouldn`t be so novel !......Was

this a "Freudian Slip ?.......Are they predatory, or unmanned

surveillance aircraft ?

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That is their name, Predator and Reaper drones.

 

[tmurray]

In the small Colorado town of Deer Trail, residents may soon be allowed to shoot down flying robots. The town board is considering an ordinance that would not only permit people with hunting licenses to fire bullets at drones, but would also pay them $100 for each mechanical hide with federal markings.Sidestepping the fact that destroying government drones like this is a federal crime, bullets fired skyward have a very poor public health record when they plummet back to the ground. Federal policy already rules out armed drone strikes against American citizens within the U.S. (provided the Americans are not enemy combatants) so there's a very real chance that more people would die from missed anti-drone bullets than would be killed by drones domestically.

Of course, that's assuming the point of the anti-drone ordinance is to shoot down drones. Instead, like many attention-grabbing drone stories, this is almost a gimmick of a protest. The permits cost $25, and I wouldn't be surprised if people from all over America bought drone hunting licenses for the novelty or symbolic value. In any case, Predator drones fly at 25,000 feet, or almost ten times higher than the longest confirmed accurate rifle shot fired by a human.

Drone News | Colorado Town Opens Bounty On Drones | Popular Science

What happens if I shoot one ant it then lands on someones house? What if it lands on a person? The federal ones are pretty big.

I think it's more likely that people end up shooting down the ones you can buy and control via iPad.

 

[cda]

What happens if I shoot one ant it then lands on someones house? What if it lands on a person? The federal ones are pretty big.I think it's more likely that people end up shooting down the ones you can buy and control via iPad.

"""What happens if I shoot one ant it then lands on someones house?"""

just have to lead them a little more!!!!!!! and adjust for windage

 

[fireguy]

Our local shooting range has been used by the guard for training. Several years ago, they started using model airplanes for target practice. I was told they were almost impossible to shoot down because the body was made of a foam. The only way to shoot them down was to hit the engine or control wires.

 

[JPohling]

go on the offensive with some attack drones

 

[north star]

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Maybe the former Goven-nator; Aaaaaaaahhhhnold, will

manufacture some Terminator drones to search out and

destroy those lame Predator drones !

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[cda]

Our local shooting range has been used by the guard for training. Several years ago, they started using model airplanes for target practice. I was told they were almost impossible to shoot down because the body was made of a foam. The only way to shoot them down was to hit the engine or control wires.

If you use a big enough gun, should solve that problem

""""""cda,

C`mon and step up your "replies game"! Only 3 more and you'll have 5,000. What are you waiting on?

I am saving it for the best post I will ever make!!!!!!

 

[globe trekker]

cda,

C`mon and step up your "replies game"! Only 3 more and you'll have 5,000. What are you waiting on? :grin:

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