Originally Posted by
ethicalconundrum
What's important for me is that there be NO restrictions on the private citizen protecting the airspace above and around them with the same vigor. Whether that is a 12Ga with a load of #6 bird shot, or some electronic jamming means, whatever the feds have, should not be denied to the citizens. So far, there is no precedent either way. The one case in TN was dismissed, but no finding went to a jury for us to hang our judicial hat on. The way I see it, and I am not a lawyer, and have a very anti-authority interpretation - that anyone can blast a private drone out of their airspace, and let the cops use whatever law they want to try to stop it. As there is no specific law on the books it will come down to an unlawful discharge of a weapon. If the reason the weapon was discharged was to protect liberty and property, my argument would be that it was lawful under the 2nd Amendment, and the 13th. Not sure if all juries in a liberal location would see it that way, but that's why I live in a very conservative area.
Wasn't it the FAA who had jurisdiction and said that nobody gets to shoot down aircraft - be it 747 or a drone - unless it's a shoot-down order from the pres, etc?
Section 1602 of the legislation specifically outlines the “
protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft,” The bill further permits
US authorities to neutralize a potential threat using “reasonable force."
You probably aren't member of "US authorities" and your backyard grill isn't a "certain facility."