The right to bear armed drones.

[DetlefK]

This is a commercial for a cell-phone screen protector. The demonstration is carried out by shooting the cell-phone with a gun mounted on a remote-controlled drone.
http://www.spockosbrain.com/2013/06/15/build-your-own-armed-drones/

The situation is very simple:
1. You can build your own drone.
2. You can 3D-print your own gun.
-> Criminals will always find a way to build their own murder-drone.
-> Any attempt to regulate murder-drones would only restrict the 2nd amendment-rights without curbing the danger posed by murder-drones.
-> Murder-drones shouldn't be regulated, but in the mean-time the gun-industry is happy to sell you even bigger guns to shoot down murder-drones and bullet-proof vests to protect your loved ones.

[graham4anything]

1. according to the 2nd, anyone could theoretically own

a shouldertoairmissle and claim they need it.

When oh when will the court reinterpret the 2nd to rightly show militia=national guard and not zimmy in Florida.

[geckosfeet]

2. Comical

... and I can't believe I am wasting time with a reply. But hey, what the heck. You posted, I reply. I think that's how this forum thingy works....

That is not likely a home built drone and I beg to differ with the picture being painted by the author (Mickal SPOCKO) of the piece Build Your Own armed Drones!. It may have been built in an engineering lab, but most people - and I include the criminal element, do not have access to such facilities.

Build Your Own armed Drones!

In this commercial for a cell phone screen protector product, a quadcopter flies up to some fruit, sodas and a cell phone and shoots them with a remote controlled handgun.

The company, Clearplex, has many videos of its screen protector products being shot at, so this one is a natural, although creepy, extension of that series.

That is not a 3d printed handgun
The demonstration was not performed by criminals and seems to have absolutely nothing to do with criminals - unless you are willing to say that the people who sponsored the demonstration (Clearplex) are criminals
How prevalent has the use of armed drones ("murder drones" ha ha - nice hyperbole) by criminals been in your area? My guess is zero recorded incidents - therefore we can postulate that current regulation is proving to be 100% effective

Not that I am advocating the use or armed drones for casual destruction of soda bottles and cell phones mind you, but I am not clear on how you arrived at the "Right to bear armed drones" nonsense.

[DetlefK]

4. Within 5 years, your argument becomes invalid.

* The science of robotics progresses and this kind of small, remote-controlled drones is already available to normal people (although very rare). In the upcoming years their availability will increase and they will become industrial tools and high-tech-toys.

* No, that's no 3D-printed gun. This gun is registered somewhere and is designed to be held with a hand. A 3D-printed gun can be tailored to your needs and installation requirements.

* I never said, the company were criminal.

* I never said that criminals were already using this technology. (Btw, I have a magic stone that repels gun-crimes. I have never been attacked with a gun. Therefore we can postulate that this counter-measure is 100% effective against guns.)



How I arrived at this nonsense? Simple deduction:
a) If it can be done, it will be done.
b) It's highly likely that attempts to control/stop this development will be stifled for political/ideological/monetary reasons because guns are involved.

[geckosfeet]

5. Where can I get one of those stones?

[OldEurope]

7. You are right.

And I'd like to add this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/business/domestic-drones-on-patrol.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Even in Turkey private drones are already used:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/proteste-in-der-tuerkei-aktivisten-lassen-doku-drohnen-fliegen-1.1700143


It can't be too difficult for an ambitiuos amateur to add a weapon.

[Sherman A1]

3. Well,

The "drone" is technically an aircraft which could come under the regulation of the FAA and the controlling frequencies would be under the regulation of the FCC. So the potential to regulate this device probably already exist.

[rrneck]

6. It's already perfectly legal to carry a shotgun most places.

That should make for an interesting arms race.