Originally Posted by el ess A
Let me get out my slide projector and put it up on the wall. I'm a very reasonable person. If someone flies a drone over my house and I know who they are, I'll kindly ask them to refrain from doing it again. If they do it again, then I'd consider they are now provoking/threatening me with it. Trust me, I'm not confusing my gun rights as far as it concerns my property.
1) I live in the south. In the country. On a good amount of property. Near an outdoor gun-range.
2) I live away from buildings, population, and airports. I am not in a gun-free zone. If I lived in town, I would be extremely cognizant of my surroundings and the potential for collateral damage. But I'm far from your typical confederate flag-waving, 4-wheel-driving, gun-toting goober. But yeah, if I want to go outside and fire a gun in the air, I can. You should see it around here on New Year's Eve night at midnight. (I use blanks, but I'm betting some of my idiot neighbors use live rounds)
2) I can legally hunt deer, rabbits, etc., and shoot anywhere on my land. Including into the sky to shoot ducks. Or anything I think looks like a duck.
3) If someone flies ANYTHING around my home, they're not doing it by accident. There's a reason (and likely not an innocent one) because of where my house is located on my land. A drone flying by, non-stop, ONE time going somewhere else doesn't bother me.
4) If I feel threatened, I can legally defend my property against all threats and I can use any weapon, including a gun, to defend myself, my family, and my property. This includes any human threat. In my state, you do NOT have to be inside my house to have a problem.
5) If they are video recording while on my property, then they come under the same rules as the home video camera rules, which means you cannot deliberately point it at your neighbor's house or property (as in an attempt to spy). Incidental coverage doesn't count. Thus by deliberately flying over my property, they violate my privacy and are breaking the law. So showing video to the police or whatnot only would prove they were trespassing. And to actually record me shooting the drone means you were pointing the drone/camera at me, in a threatening manner. Is there also a gun on the drone? I cannot take that chance. I think my home video system probably would show me shooting at a threat.
6) I don't care about drones/helicopters, whatever you want to call it. Fly them. I'm sure they're fun hobby like anything else. But you have no right to fly them over my property in a manner I feel is threatening to me or my family.
7) I don't go willy-nilly firing my guns. But I won't put up with any large buzzing insects hovering over my property, either.
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