July 23, 201511 yr Connecticut Teen Made A Drone That Fires A Semi-Automatic Handgun -- And Police Say It's Legal A Connecticut teen has added a handgun to a drone, creating a weapon that can be fired remotely -- and police say it appears to be perfectly legal. Austin Haughwout, 18, posted a clip online showing the drone firing four shots, which triggered a police investigation. But police in Haughwout's hometown of Clinton say they can't find anything to charge him with. "It would seem to the average person, there should be something prohibiting a person from attaching a weapon to a drone," Clinton Police Chief Todd Lawrie said in a statement cited by WTNH, the ABC affiliate in New Haven. "At this point, we can't find anything that's been violated." At least one law enforcement expert believes reckless conduct charges could apply in this case.
July 23, 201511 yr Author Send him to one of the military acadamies. Seems resourceful and bright. Heck, put him in touch with DARPA.
July 23, 201511 yr Heck' date=' put him in touch with DARPA.[/quote'] Just another way our laws are not keeping up with technology.
July 23, 201511 yr Author Just another way our laws are not keeping up with technology.FWIW no gun law has really ever prevented a gun crime, they just help in the prosecution after the fact. I actually think some states may already have some laws against this or something similar as they already ban remote hunting in many states. Remote hunting is where you sit on your laptop in Kentucky for example and control a rifle mounted in a tree stand in Texas to deer hunt. While not the exact same thing I think it would be easily enough to outlaw remote control guns if this becomes an issue...but then if they are outlawed, "Only outlaws will have remote control guns" :lol2:
July 24, 201511 yr Actually a 'suicide drone' with some C4 strapped to it is really, really scary. If a drone can carry a pistol it can carry the same weight in C4.
July 24, 201511 yr Actually a 'suicide drone' with some C4 strapped to it is really, really scary. If a drone can carry a pistol it can carry the same weight in C4. That's what I said before. How would you stop it?
July 24, 201511 yr That's what I said before. How would you stop it? In some cases we may not be able to so long as we want a government which is limited in its ability to perform searches of the people in the name of freedom. All the way back to Ben Franklin, he wrote about how in many cases, liberty and security are opposed to each other but he concluded by saying dangerous freedom will always be preferable to shackled security.
July 24, 201511 yr FWIW no gun law has really ever prevented a gun crime, they just help in the prosecution after the fact. I actually think some states may already have some laws against this or something similar as they already ban remote hunting in many states. Remote hunting is where you sit on your laptop in Kentucky for example and control a rifle mounted in a tree stand in Texas to deer hunt. While not the exact same thing I think it would be easily enough to outlaw remote control guns if this becomes an issue...but then if they are outlawed, "Only outlaws will have remote control guns" :lol2: "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead drone."
July 24, 201511 yr I hope we got some trained conceal and carry people when then drone attacks happens. Ha
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