Posted on 07/18/2015 10:17:07 AM PDT by GoneSalt
The father of an 18-year-old boy who built a drone with a gun attached and posted video of it on YouTube with the title "flying gun" says they broke no laws. The footage appears to show a gun affixed to a drone hovering several feet off of the ground in a wooded area. The gun appears to discharge several times while the drone is in flight. In the posting, Austin Haughwout, 18, describes the device as a "homemade multi-rotor with a semi-automatic handgun mounted on it."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
'Though it does not appear any state statute was violated, local police said the idea of a "flying gun" can be discharged remotely is disquieting.'
Just another thing for the SS to lose sleep over.
I saw a flying gun drone video at least two years ago, maybe three.
Version 2 comes with a Computer Assisted Sniper Rifle....
What about local ordinances?
Maybe POTUS should be kept in a Pope-mobile container or a bulletproof hamsterball at all times?
Okay, so it may be legal, it is a nice project, but thereafter, why? Just because you, doesn’t mean you should. And what kind of project is this for a parent to sanction and support? Maybe the money might be better spent in a college fund.
"The father of an 18-year-old boy who built a drone with a gun attached and posted video of it on YouTube with the title "flying gun" says they broke no laws."
A possible problem with making a 1st Amendment-protected Internet video of this armed drone is the following. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ultimately encourages pro-gun control federal lawmakers to try to win votes by at least introducing constitutionally indefensible federal legislation to prohibit such things. And corrupt senators who are supposed to protect their states will probably join the bandwagon.
Put him on the moon for all I care.
Two stupid, short-sighted men, infatuated with some fame and some money, playing into nanny-statist hands.
Dumb and dumber.
“Though it does not appear any state statute was violated, local police said the idea of a “flying gun” can be discharged remotely is disquieting.”
Then they need to just pound sand.
Prototype Quadrotor with Machine Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
Published on Apr 23, 2012
So, because of the ever-encroaching nanny state upon our inalienable Rights they should have....??
We have already seen the nanny state in our once Freedom of travel (license, anti hitch-hiking), innovation (3D printing [guns] are next in my estimation) and the like. Hell, the guy that gyro-copters to the halls of Congress...how much time/$$-fine did he get for his non-lethal protest??
Yep, the rightful indignation of armchair quarterbacks in the battle of Liberty and Freedom rise again!
Oh wow!
It appears to have been filmed in a rural area.
Rural areas:
1. Generally don’t care to restrict the second amendment. And
2. Can’t afford to defend an ordinance attempting to restrict the second ammendment when challenged in court.
They struggle to fund keeping the roads paved.
Very cool!
The kid seems smart enough that college would only make him lazy and dumb like most college graduates.
I hate to break the news to dad, but yes, his son broke the law. Which ones I do not know, but I know that there are so many that everyone breaks one or more of them each day one lives. As I sit here typing this, no telling how many laws I violated. And that is the purpose of said laws. To make criminals out of the masses. That way, they can be controlled by the masters.
Solitary with a 24/7 Secret Service Guard?
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