U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd is an Obama appointee. I suspect he was just sitting on this case because the crime occurred Oct. 22, 2017 and he plead guilty in March 2018. I've heard of other crimes stacking up and not being charged by Dem/Obama judges.
Wonder where he got the laser. From the article: "An examination of John’s laser revealed that it emitted 85 milliwatts (mW) of power and is 17 times more powerful than what is legally permissible for handheld laser devices."
“Wonder where he got the laser.”
You can build a laser. Or you can by one from Amazon.
If a helicopter can be endangered by a glorified laser pointer then the helicopters don't need to be flying over populated areas.
From the research I've done this is not a powerful laser by any stretch.
Our criminal justice system is a corrupt joke.
There is such a danger from lasers affecting the vision of pilots or law enforcement officers, and now some of the Antifa creeps are apparently using lasers to mess with law enforcement. Someone needs to invent some kind of visor or lens that reacts almost instantaneously to a laser beam, blackening just the specific location of the laser contact, but permitting vision through the parts of the lens or visor where the laser beam is not in contact. Surely Defense R&D has to be working on something like that.