I ran across this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHrTtvFFIs) showing a handgun attached to a personal drone. Interesting but somehow looks like it would be illegal as hell. Not to mention violating some basic rules of firearm safety.
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Maybe, but even if it is legal that doesn't make it very smart.
Bigdog57
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It doesn't deal well with recoil. Needs to have a Gyrojet pistol. 
Arizona_Mike
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Readily convertible to full auto.
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Smart it's not!
You have a loaded pistol cocked. Muzzle sweeping everything. Finger by-proxy (servo controlled) on the trigger. And certainly not fully aware of what's behind the target. All you need is a little radio interference to cause the servo to fire.
Yeah, definitely not smart.
You have a loaded pistol cocked. Muzzle sweeping everything. Finger by-proxy (servo controlled) on the trigger. And certainly not fully aware of what's behind the target. All you need is a little radio interference to cause the servo to fire.
Yeah, definitely not smart.
primalmu
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Not smart, but I don't technically think its illegal per se. And I thought it handled the recoil quite well for a multi rotor!
Lord Teapot
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saw a video awhile back like this, thought it was the neatest thing. why go out back to confront that strange noise when you can launch your armed quad-rotor through the window, and pilot it around the house to investigate.
DeepSouth
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Looks like someone did one of those "just because I can" things. I'd have been more behind it but other than that it didn't look that dangerous to me.
Sure he doesn't need to fly it down Main Street, but he didn't fly it down Main Street. Seems to me you guys are worrying about what he could do, not what he did do......sound familiar?
Just saying.
His gun, his property, his drone, I say go for it. Put a laser on it and have a neat toy to show buddies or just shoot paper with.
Sure he doesn't need to fly it down Main Street, but he didn't fly it down Main Street. Seems to me you guys are worrying about what he could do, not what he did do......sound familiar?
Just saying.
His gun, his property, his drone, I say go for it. Put a laser on it and have a neat toy to show buddies or just shoot paper with.
I guess part of my line of thought is that there is enough attempts to regulate the use of personal drones - I mean to the point of farmers not being allowed to use drones on their own property without appropriate licensing - and then you have someone put a handgun on one and popping off a few rounds. May be legal. May have been on his own property. But something just strikes me as not being quite right. At least I'm not down range (as I check the airspace out my window)
The government is sure as heck using drones over my private property. I see them checking along the cricks purty regular. I think they are watching to see if any of my cows is crappin' in the crick.
Or maybe they are measuring the methane concentration from my cows.
Sure tempting to shoot them down, but it's a good bet they know more about me than I do.
Or maybe they are measuring the methane concentration from my cows.
Sure tempting to shoot them down, but it's a good bet they know more about me than I do.
Art Eatman
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Solenoid operated, so as long as it takes one push of a button to fire one round, it's a legal firearm.
GarySTL
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The guys on Red Jacket did this on one of their shows. It fired straight down. They said it was a game changer though.
splattergun
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this is one those "hey, watch this! Here, hold my beer!" moments. 
Arizona_Mike
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Starting to think this is a hoax, esp. If that is really Austin Haughwout's channel.
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It's only a matter of time before they are used by the state to subjugate its populace.
Bigdog57
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We'll need to begin adding 'airspace rights' to our property leases, in addition to mineral and water rights. Y'all have seen those nifty multiple AK and 10-22 guns on youtube..... now imagine four semiauto 12 gauge shotguns so configured for anti drone 'air defense'....... 
MachIVshooter
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I don't have any problem with the concept, but the devil's in the details. I've been playing with RC for most of my life, and while things have improved dramatically over the last decade, with far greater range, longer battery life and fewer glitches, I still do not have enough faith in the electronics when they are responsible for controlling a deadly weapon. Even on quality 2.4 GHz systems, I've had problems, and a servo could mechanically break in such a way that you end up with unintended FA fire.
I have thought about building remote firing stations for predator control, but the field of fire would me mechanically limited to safe directions. Impossible to do with a mobile platform. At the very least, on something like this, I would want a system that requires one servo to render the weapon ready to fire and another servo, controlled by a completely separate receiver & transmitter, to actually pull the trigger.
Probably. The first time someone gets hurt or killed by a weaponized personal RC vehicle, we'll see hasty action taken to restrict or ban them.
I have thought about building remote firing stations for predator control, but the field of fire would me mechanically limited to safe directions. Impossible to do with a mobile platform. At the very least, on something like this, I would want a system that requires one servo to render the weapon ready to fire and another servo, controlled by a completely separate receiver & transmitter, to actually pull the trigger.
Probably. The first time someone gets hurt or killed by a weaponized personal RC vehicle, we'll see hasty action taken to restrict or ban them.
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