Oh yes, I 'anticipate' the government will 'need' this and will soon outlaw serfs operating unmanned toys under the premise 'Islamists' (who they love in reality) might attack an aircraft.
The control freaks love to control, so no argument there.
So when some drugged up patsy purportedly has a 'bomb' (M-80?) on a radio controlled toy near an airport, our heroes will implement a buffer zone around all airports where serfs will not be allowed to operate RC planes or even Estes rockets.
Yes, I think you're right.
“...our heroes will implement a buffer zone around all airports where serfs will not be allowed to operate RC planes or even Estes rockets.”
Actually our overlords HAVE implemented a VIP buffer zone for POTUS and others deemed worthy of such protection called a NOTAM under which it is illegal to fly RC planes and rockets.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAM
The rest of us shlubs are left unprotected from terrorist drone attacks at airports and elsewhere.
RC hobbyists are NOT the problem. It is the newly miniaturized autopilots with precision autonomous GPS waypoint navigation that is the problem. These new, cheap mini-planes and copters can deliver kinetic energy or munitions to extremely vulnerable locations.
Just wait until our Al Qaeda friends, who always seem to attack just when the US government needs them to, start shooting down airliners with the thousands of shoulder launched SAM's we helped them liberate from Libya's stockpiles.
That.