How was this careless or reckless?
It involved going outside.
I’m kinda wondering that also.
Letting liberals find out about it?
It’s one of those things that can indeed be done safely & properly & legally ... but can get very unsafe & improper & illegal very fast, making the likes of FAA & BATFE very nervous and eager to prosecute.
My thoughts too.
Well, probably firing it into the woods was reckless. There could have been someone in there that wasn’t visible on the drone’s camera. Generally, when you discharge a firearm without making sure nobody is in the line of fire, it’s considered a reckless discharge.
He chose to mount what was probably an available weapon rather than one optimized for the mission. The recoil of firing disrupts the firing platform, and it should be equipped with a recoil brake to reduce the effect of the muzzle flash, at least. Better yet: he could have gone back to the 1970s, and checked out the experiments by George Nonte and a few other researchers involved in fitting a gyrostabilizer to an Ingram M10 submachinegun, which was already prepared for a sound suppressor.
And, of course, there's always the M79/M203 grenade launcher....