[LittleBillyInfidel]

That depends. If your drone is over your property or public property, that's different from flying it over someone else's property (particularly as a voyeur). Assuming this case is being reported correctly, I would vote not guilty in a criminal trial regardless of the letter of the law. In a civil trial, I would vote for the drone owner to compensate the responsible father for the cost of ammo.

Yeah, I'm mostly with you and, unlike most of the other replies I've received, you are thinking it through logically. The facts of the case are being ignored completely and the drone operators were lawful. However, as you likely well know, the idiot schmucks are gonna ruin it for guys like me who took classes and studied the law (Regs, etc).

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

The facts of the case are being ignored completely and the drone operators were lawful.

Do you know for a fact whether they were flying as a hobby-related activity or commercially?