Meanwhile, all the components to make your own “drone” are out on the open market.
“Meanwhile, all the components to make your own “drone” are out on the open market.”
Along with the open source designs, 3D Print models, and software.
Yes. If recreational drones were made illegal, it would be easy to break the law.
It seems to me that recreational drone users love their hobby, and the rest of us find it annoying or worse. We don't like the noise, and we don't like having our privacy invaded with flying cameras.
Also, we vastly outnumber the drone users.
So, I suspect that a political movement to ban recreational drone use might succeed right now. It would certainly succeed after the first use -- anywhere in the world -- of hundreds of drones programmed to kill humans.