That’s gonna go about as well as the attempt to license tens of millions of CB radio operators back in the 1970’s.
Recreational drones? then i don’t have to register as I use them for “educational studies”...
“The FAA announced on Monday that recreational drone operators will be required to register their aircraft.”
That would be pretty much any radio controlled air craft and
can easily include any radio controlled vehicle, even cars
and boats.
Merry Christmas Kids and Parents!!
Enjoy the holiday trying to register your new drones.
FCC already regulates certain radio-controlled craft. Don’t know why drones wouldn’t fall into that category.
If it moves, regulate it.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
You can get toys for less than $50 that you can fly around. They don’t have serial numbers. Millions will be sold this Christmas.
How are you possibly going to register them?
What good would it do?
Fom my cold dead hands!!
Gov. Coumo to Require NY State Recreational Drone Operators to Register their drones under the SAFEDRONE ACT>.
Let's go fly a Kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a Kite
Let's go pay a Fee
Let's give up our Identity
Let's go pay a Fee and give up freedom
Down to the DMV
Surrender to the Bureaucracy
Oh, let's recall being Free
Define “recreational”. If I am patrolling my property with a drone, it is a tool, not a toy. If I’m using it to keep tabs on the regime, it’s a weapon (in their eyes).
Just what Big Government wants: More bureaucracy, more red tape and the ordinary citizen paying dearly for justice.
"The FAA announced on Monday that recreational drone operators will be required to register their aircraft."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Not only have the states never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate drones, but even if the states had done so, please consider the following.
The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that only the elected members of Congress can exercise federal legislative / regulatory powers. So even if the states had delegated such powers to Congress, Congress cannot delegate such powers to non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the EPA and FAA.
So what we’re seeing here is the corrupt federal government once again expanding its powers outside the framework of the Constitution. Note that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution, had warned about the federal government slowly expanding its powers without the consent of the Article V state majority as evidenced by the following excerpts.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people." [X Amendment] To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson: National Bank Opinion, 1791.
Also, all roads to unconstitutional expansion of the federal government’s powers arguably lead to the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the corrupt Senate not doing its job to protect the states as the Founding States had intended for the Senate to do as a consequence of that amendment.
In this example the Senate should have killed legislation that helped to delegate federal regulatory powers, powers that Congress actually does not have in this case, to non-elected federal bureaucrats like those running the EPA and the FAA.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators who help to pass unconstitutional bills which steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers along with it.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Regulations & Policies
Fly below 400 feet and remain clear of surrounding obstacles
Keep the aircraft within visual line of sight at all times
Remain well clear of and do not interfere with manned aircraft operations
Don't fly within 5 miles of an airport unless you contact the airport and control tower before flying
Don't fly near people or stadiums
Don't fly an aircraft that weighs more than 55 lbs
Don't be careless or reckless with your unmanned
aircraft – you could be fined for endangering people or other aircraft
This is the problem with being a Conservative.
Now that the Government wants to get involved in the ownership of Drones, I will have to go out and purchase one before they pass a new Law.
I had no interest in owning one until now. My Wife will be pissed when I bring a new Drone home from the Store. I’ll have to pay Cash so there is no Paper Trail. LOL
Victims still won’t have any information with which to identify them (tiny numbers, shifting around quickly?). They’ll hit, run and cause all kinds of trouble. Meanwhile, government employees are allowed to cross frequencies to stop them with radio waves, while others are not (automatic immunities with no need for legislation). More trouble, more funding to participate in trouble.