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Shotgun with a sign on the end of the barrel....

LAND NOW OR I BLOW YOUR TOY OUT OF THE SKY!:up:

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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 2332792)

No, someone just gave me unpatented plans :03:

Make that lapsed patent:

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US4912869

Beware of a drone in the sun!

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2332597)

If he thought someone was operating his drone in an illegal manner, the preferred action is to call the police.

That's what you do when you suspect that a crime is being committed.

Since the drone was not any type of direct threat to this guy, discharging his shotgun in that manner was unnecessary.

Why are there people with guns who seem eager to enforce the law like this? Call the police and register a complaint

Well, you can't shoot people for trespassing either.

You can only shoot people when they pose a direct and immediate threat of violence to you.

People like this are not helping responsible gun owners :nope::sign_yeah:

Well, no. I don't own any drones and I like guns... and I disagree with what you did.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2332770)

Agree with Platapus in #3 :yep:

:agree:
Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad caelum et ad inferos ("For whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to Heaven and down to Hell."). Having flown small aircraft and appraised real estate with use rights; currently, the limit of home owner rights is 500 feet above a property. With delivery by drone expected by Amazon, this could become a sticky issue. "The low cost of unmanned aerial vehicles in the 2000s revived legal questions of what activities were permissible at low altitude. The FAA reestablished that public, or navigable, airspace is the space above 500 feet." Since most homeowners, gazing upward with a brew in hand with a smoky BBQ aren't qualified aerial gunners,:nope: the 500 foot rule simply is difficult to ascertain along a shotgun barrel regardless of the expended buckshot descending into another homeowners yard...clearly violating his airspace.:timeout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights Hey I could open a drone mallard duck -blind shooting gallery. Wear your waders and come on out in the off season to stay in practice.:yeah:http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1yubjb_daffy-duck-ep-140-attack-of-the-drones_fun

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Originally Posted by Betonov (Post 2332773)

Just throw a net on it.
It will jam the rotors and prove that the drone was close enough to be a violation of privacy and the electronics would survive so police specialists can try to track the owner.

That will be my first anti-drone product :hmmm:

Best idea yet:up: Get one of those air cannons they use to hurl t-shirts up to the crowd at ball games, and zip a net on that pesky invader.

Of course, we know how this is going to end: anti-drone drones! You'll send your No Trespassing drone to take out the invader.:haha:

Or, enjoy a similar hobby to take down the invading drones :rock:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ket1034040.jpg

Of course, it may take more than one to do the job...
http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uplo.../08/rs0002.jpg

Neal's retirement job!

^ anybody with 30 acres of grassland to defend needs to think big BBY and grow your own pumpkins. This sport is big buck$!:03: http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.c...?itok=x5Sf_DwN https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Moab_Shot.JPGpsst! Nuthin good goes outta style BBY! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ailway_Gun.jpgfoto enlarges

Want to fly in my airspace?

Gourd head.
Can I legally chunk punkins at the buggas?:arrgh!:

Calling the cops?
An exercise in futility I think...

First, the 911 operator will need to stop laughing before they can dispatch a patrol unit.

Then the officers in the patrol unit will need to stop laughing before they can respond.

By that time the buggah will be long gone.

Hamm's delivery by drone?

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And there's just no telling how many people in Yemen would be incited to join Al Qaeda after hearing of an American drone . . . delivering beers to ice fishermen in Minnesota. ["Allluah Akhbar!"] who thinks like that BBY?!!!:()1:

Blasty the Drone: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1312926/-Cartoon-Blasty-the-Drone-To-Protect-nbsp-nbsp-Swerve# http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/...ck-495x375.jpgorhttp://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/...er-495x352.jpg:O:

Popular mechanics article about downing drones

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flig...-down-a-drone/

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Taking a drone out of the sky, especially with an actual gun, does not take a whole lot of firepower. According to Cornblatt, "Drones are so fragile that almost anything that hits them or touches them is likely to cause them to crash or lose orientation."

That being the case, virtually any firearm can absolutely thrash a drone if it draws blood, so to speak. 9mm pistols on up to full-on sniper rifles stand roughly the same chance of turning a hit into a kill. Even lowly pellet guns—some of which have muzzle velocities on order with that of a .22 caliber rifle—stand a good chance at doing fatal harm. "If you were to hit a drone with [a BB], that pellet would penetrate and certainly cause some damage," Cornblatt told me. Should you find yourself in range to hit it with a rock or a baseball, that's likely to be a game-ender as well.

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Even lowly pellet guns

JEEZE don't even say that around Jeff-Groves!:k_confused:

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 2333115)

http://pyxis.homestead.com/High_Tech_.jpg

Yea but you can shoot that bitch out the sky. :O:

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2334270)

JEEZE don't even say that around Jeff-Groves!:k_confused:

I got a lowly pellet gun for drones.
Full Auto .22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvDuCirNCvw

You don't even need a gun :haha:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flig...catches-drone/

Too bad the drone got away, the footage of him reeling it in would be fantastic :)