All your air are belong to us

Forget trying to shoot down drones over your own property, says the FAA, adding that they control our airspace. Not that it has impressed the author of a Colorado city ordinance to encourage drone hunting:

“‘I don’t want to live in a surveillance society. I don’t feel like being in a virtual prison,’ Steel said. ‘This is a pre-emptive strike.’

“He dismissed the FAA’s warning. ‘The FAA doesn’t have the power to make a law,’ he said.”

True. At least, not legally. But the feds grow more contemptuous of the law every day. Witness the DOJ’s gun-running to Mexico and the IRS scandal.

But, for that matter, legality has never stopped outraged citizens from fighting back and sure as hell won’t this time as they watch their federal government grow increasingly corrupt. Good luck finding out who fired the shot(s) that crashes the first federal drone.

Via Drudge.

4 responses to “All your air are belong to us

  1. There is a significant possibility that your shot would be on video. However, it may be time to accept consequences of actions taken to preserve our liberty. If it is not quite there, that time is rapidly approaching.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley

    Maybe, but the video would have to be on the drone (or another one at higher altitude) so the crash probably would destroy it. As for a second one higher up, well, that would be a problem, unless the shooter disguised himself, say, with a Halloween mask and a hoodie.

  3. Barrett produces just the tool for that new sport, I remind you. With a tripod, of course, cause it’s quite a heavy one.

    • Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley

      Not sure what good a tripod would be if you were shooting up, unless, I suppose, you could position yourself on the backside of a hill.