Bad Idea!

And yet you can buy a scoped sniper rifle with the same range as a civilian RC vehicle (and a hell of a lot quieter and accurate too).

The biggest legal problem may be that if the flying RC vehicle crashes a kid could get to it first and retrieve the gun.

And, a sniper rifle is usually used to kill a specific target.

A drone in the hands of some teen aged twit could kill a random bystander, or five.

It's a BAD idea.

Just like 3-D printed guns.

But, it's too late and there will be many copy cats doing this too.

Just like 3-D printed guns.

Everything can be bad,.....

a while back, I had it out with one member here because I made a comment that a lot of advances are made because of war.

As far as 3D printing, the skunk works have been using that for a very long time..... yet now they found a use in making medical devices, prosthetics and the like that making weapons gets to be a cakewalk.

As far as a nut job getting their hands on a 3D printer, one might see a more stringent license required to get a 3D printer.....

OHHH Goody, a new market!

forget "drive-by shootings", in the future it'll be a "flyby"

Yes, it's a bad idea. But the drones are more likely to cause loss of life/damage by pulling bone-headed stunts like this.

Yes, covered here How To Analyse Jerks #33.

You have to question the intelligence of the flaming idiots who would fly drones over a fire when the airspace is closed.

More self centered little twats with no brains.

(Probably a good thing drones were not "invented" yet when I was 15)

So, here is how to turn a bad idea into a good idea: Give the firefighters some of these armed drones to shoot down the rogue drones over the fire. Then they can send in the tankers, and the owners of the rogue drones are out hundreds of $.

I say get a portable EMP gun and drop the drones like flies.

Collect the drones and when the owners show up to claim them....

Hand them a citation and a notice to appear in court for damages. If their interruption caused a human death...

Charge them with accessory to manslaughter and see how fast the drones fall out of the sky when a teenager is convicted of manslaughter and jailed for an "innocent fly by"!!

There is no mention of whether those were blank rounds or not. I don't think the airframe on that thing could take much recoil. Not that it matters, in terms of an Idiot threat.

The were NOT blanks.

Blanks will not cycle a semi automatic pistol.

I read that the kid's idiot dad helped him build this death drone.

Nothing that a good long caning of kid and idiot dad with a 2 inch diameter bamboo trunk wouldn't cure.

a few strokes of the cane always go a long way when an attitude adjustment is required

Sure is a "bad idea" but it is hardly innovative enough to qualify as an idea.

This "idea" has been obvious in a number of forms from day one - the delivery of poisonous gas or grenade to wherever, for example, so why did it take a video to start the conversation.

The issue is not that "some dumb student" might have an accident while experimenting - just as his/her peers might have two decades ago when playing with explosives when these were the "big adventure" for kids. I know for example that one US professor, as an adolescent, worked out how to remotely blow up a mountain top with nitro glycerine.

The real issue is that a terrorist could be organizing something right now - I am a bit surprised this has not already happened as it is so obvious and easy.

The real issue is about what practical steps, and consistent with a free society, should be taken by the authorities in order to minimize the chances of something serious n the future.

In the mean time just reflect on the fact that, if only until recently, all those 75 mm folding pocket knives and the like, that have been confiscated by the aviation authorities for your protection, could easily have been substituted for with undetectable 200 mm carbon fiber blades.

A gun on an an RC vehicle is not a new development. Just an interesting practical project when looked at without emotion.

No worse than an AK47 strapped to a PTZ camera remotely monitored and controlled over the interweb....just saying.

If you can think it you can make it and thinking is still free.