Actually the author of the article ignores VERY important points. First, the guy in Georgia fired a handgun in a neighborhood, and the author never bothered to check the laws in the states where the other drones were shot to see what actually was the law that was violated. Further, what exactly did the individuals say when asked about the event? He also uses the trite "taking the law into your own hands - dead giveaway of a leftist hack - the law IS in everybody's hands, and it's delegated but not absolutley vested into the hands of sworn law enforcement officers.
Finally, so somebody was charged, so what? What was the outcome of the charges? :shocked2:
There is a difference between somebody's drone or RC plane (essentially a drone is an RC aircraft) used for recreational flight, and the drone used for other purposes (silly photo in the linked article - Air Force drone). You want to fly your 1:100 scale Jap Zero or your futuristic drone, fine, but you don't automatically get immunity to go anywhere simply because you're using a drone, as the article suggests. Fly that sucker near an actual airfield....see what happens.
If you're in an area where hunting is allowed, you shot the drone when going for a bird near the drone...ooops sorry it was an accident. You're wearing ear protection so you couldn't hear it, and it looked like a game bird, so you shot it, ooops sorry. Are there laws against interfering with a lawful hunt where you live; there are where I am, and use of a drone could be illegal, especially if low enough to hit it with birdshot. :wink: When some schmuck tries to get you charged with destruction of property to tries to take you to small claims court..., charge them with unlawful interference with a hunt.
I suspect the neighbor has a drone flier on the property next door, scouting deer. Now scouting would be legal if the drone is high enough, BUT if it's so low that it makes the deer move, does your state allow herding of wildlife from the air? I bet not. Not all drone fliers are jerks, but I'd bet the drone is so low because the operator is trying to push deer off your property and toward him or better yet, toward the guys that paid him to be their guide. I wonder how, even if they have a video tape of the guy shooting the drone, they could prove who was the shooter, especially with birdshot and you didn't admit to the act (5th ammendment right against self incrimination folks)
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you might not have to shoot it....,
You might check with the drone manufacturers on what frequencies are used for their control. COSTCO has, for example, camera drones for sale for Christmas, so I wonder what would happen if random signals on that frequency were transmitted by you when you saw the drone over your property? Kinda a like a jamming signal? What would happen if you got an RC unit that would work for the rogue drone over your propery, and you started messing with it's control. "Aw your drone crashed in my field or my woods...gee that's too bad. No you can't trespass to retrieve it. Come back with an officer, and maybe I'll let you onto the propery."
LD
Did it run off like old joe said it would 
