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FAA warns public against shooting guns at drones
FoxNews.com ^ | July 19, 2013 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/20/2013 3:14:57 AM PDT by OwenKellogg

The FAA released a statement in response to questions about an ordinance under consideration in the tiny farming community of Deer Trail, Colo., that would encourage hunters to shoot down drones. The administration reminded the public that it regulates the nation's airspace, including the airspace over cities and towns.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: drones
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Drone hunting season in one Colorado town!
1 posted on 07/20/2013 3:14:57 AM PDT by OwenKellogg
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To: OwenKellogg

Krauthammer on drones :

“I’m going to go hard left on you here, I’m going ACLU. I don’t want regulations, I don’t want restrictions, I want a ban on this. Drones are instruments of war. The Founders had a great aversion to any instruments of war, the use of the military inside even the United States. It didn’t like standing armies, it has all kinds of statutes of using the army in the country.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys but not in America. I don’t want to see it hovering over anybody’s home. Yes, you can say we have satellites, we’ve got Google Street View and London has a camera on every street corner but that’s not an excuse to cave in on everything else and accept a society where you’re always under — being watched by the government. This is not what we want.

I would say that you ban it under all circumstances and I would predict, I’m not encouraging, but I an predicting that the first guy who uses a Second Amendment weapon to bring a drone down that’s been hovering over his house is going to be a folk hero in this country.”


2 posted on 07/20/2013 3:16:05 AM PDT by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation is destroying the USA.)
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To: OwenKellogg

Americans warn against flying drones over US.


3 posted on 07/20/2013 3:16:58 AM PDT by Ray76 (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: OwenKellogg

He is right, the programming in the drone autonomous system is inherently militaristic, much like a soldier is programmed.


4 posted on 07/20/2013 3:18:16 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: OwenKellogg

Just a wild guess here, but I predict the first CONUS civilian use of a drone in an aggressive manner will be to shoot a homeowner’s dog.

Soon thereafter, the drone will release a statement through the controlling agency public information officer, “I was afraid for my life.”


5 posted on 07/20/2013 3:18:58 AM PDT by Gaffer
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The question is whether the correct address was programmed into the drone, and whether or not the dog was “licensed.”


6 posted on 07/20/2013 3:23:00 AM PDT by abb
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To: abb

LMAO!


7 posted on 07/20/2013 3:25:00 AM PDT by Ray76 (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: OwenKellogg
No guns?

Fine. We'll use lasers and EMP devices.

8 posted on 07/20/2013 3:29:01 AM PDT by jboot (It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
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To: OwenKellogg

What’s a drone? I thought it was a duck!


9 posted on 07/20/2013 3:40:00 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: OwenKellogg

The administration reminded the public that it regulates the nation’s airspace, including the airspace over cities and towns.


Then they regulate the airspace over my house? And I can have no presumption of privacy?

We’re a half a step away from a “pre-crime” police state.

And, yes, your dogs are monitored through meta-data.


10 posted on 07/20/2013 3:41:45 AM PDT by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation is destroying the USA.)
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To: OwenKellogg

Obama and Holder promise only to use them
to murder dissidents against their treason.


11 posted on 07/20/2013 3:44:27 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Gaffer
Just a wild guess here, but I predict the first CONUS civilian use of a drone in an aggressive manner will be to shoot a homeowner’s dog.

Soon thereafter, the drone will release a statement through the controlling agency public information officer, “I was afraid for my life.”

"When Pigs Fly!" :-)

12 posted on 07/20/2013 3:44:47 AM PDT by meyer (What would John Hancock do?)
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To: meyer

That phrase is about to take on a whole new meaning.


13 posted on 07/20/2013 3:47:12 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: OwenKellogg

“Drones are instruments of war. The Founders had a great aversion to any instruments of war, the use of the military inside even the United States. It didn’t like standing armies”

I’m going to disagree with the choice of words. I don’t think the Founders had an aversion to instruments of war at all. In fact IMHO they knew and respected instruments of war as the means available to the People, of protecting themselves from government overreach. They felt so strongly about it that they enumerated the individual right to own and possess instruments of war in the second amendment to the Constitution and said that right “shall not be infringed”.

...and I will sing my eternal song of subtle infringement that has been ongoing in this country since gun control for the children and the people has been front and center as a political issue. The first really egregious infringement was the NFA of 1934 followed by the 1968 gun bill and then the 1986 gun bill that essentially disarmed the American people of frontline small arms and placed the standing army at a supreme advantage over “the people”. The very thing the Founders were most concerned with.

...and in closing for you NRA proponents, the organization that not only stood by while all this was going on but assisted the infringement if not by their lack of doing then by their active participation.


14 posted on 07/20/2013 3:50:43 AM PDT by wita
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To: OwenKellogg

Anything under “navigable airspace” belongs to the property owner, except where ceeded or needed for safe landing and takeoff.

Sorry FAA, but if a drone is under 500 feet, it is fair game.


15 posted on 07/20/2013 4:04:19 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: OwenKellogg

I also predict that if someone comes forward claiming to have a drone shoot down the feds will come down on them like schumer on a TV camera.


16 posted on 07/20/2013 4:08:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: jboot
We'll use lasers and EMP devices.

I could see the art of amateur rocketry being advanced here. That and RC planes.

17 posted on 07/20/2013 4:18:14 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Joe Boucher

Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.

TC


18 posted on 07/20/2013 4:26:26 AM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck
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To: jboot
We'll use lasers and EMP devices.

Or something more subtle.

19 posted on 07/20/2013 4:29:41 AM PDT by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: OwenKellogg

I m warning the United States Government against firing a gun from a drone at Americans!

I can’t think of a quicker way to start a civil war in this great Nation than for the government to shoot and kill an American in his or her house on his or her private land by an over zealous “racist” Attorney General!! The government won’t have enough man power, resources, or strategic for knowledge to prevent what would happen all across this Country, in every Town, Village, dirt road, behind every rock, tree, hillside, highway sign, culvert. This socialist administration has no idea the shit storm that would erupt!


20 posted on 07/20/2013 4:46:49 AM PDT by PotatoChop (Respect is earned, not demanded by this out of control socialist government!)
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