Is it okay to shoot down a drone over your house?

curiositer wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Detecting and jamming the radio frequency would work. Or sending a stronger signal on that same frequency, you could even capture it intact.

Would that work for a neighbor's loud stereo or boom boom box?

Apparently it does. A search for "jam the signal" "neighbor's stereo" yields the following.

Crossing the Line wrote:

Randy Oldman wrote:

You have, and should exercise, the right to shoot down anything flying less than 400 feet above your property.

"The landowner has exclusive control of the immediate reaches of the enveloping atmosphere."

"Invasions of that airspace are in the same category as invasions of the surface."

United States vs Causby, 1946.

Except that you don't have the right to shoot anybody for entering your property on the surface either. There'd be a lot of dead mailmen, door-to-door salesmen, and Jehovah's Witnesses if that were the case.

Except that a person and a drone are distinctly different things, no?

brownsmith76 wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp5gAY6aIjA

or maybe a crazed man is breaking down the door to try to rape your wife who is alone with a baby.

do you want to take away her right to self-defense?

Nobody is trying to tell your wife she can't have a gun in her house. To protect herself. She would most likely pass a background check. Its the guy breaking in who we are trying to prevent from having a gun.

democrat wrote:

brownsmith76 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp5gAY6aIjA

or maybe a crazed man is breaking down the door to try to rape your wife who is alone with a baby.

do you want to take away her right to self-defense?

Yes, the intruder is probably not going to kill her, so killing the intruder would be wrong.

A rape is not worth a human life.

ask your mom or sister or a woman who has been raped.

Yep, a guy attempting a rape should be shot.

idiot wrote:Nobody is trying to tell your wife she can't have a gun in her house. To protect herself. She would most likely pass a background check. Its the guy breaking in who we are trying to prevent from having a gun.

the guy in the video didn't have a gun.

"armed with a foot-long hunting knife, he and his partner attempted to break down McKinley's door."

thieves will always try to steal what's not theirs, and your "most likely pass" shouldn't even be there to impede her right to self-defense.

Jkj wrote:

My friends and I shot a helicopter hovering over my house with a potato gun when we were in middle school. Judging from the repercussions of that incident, you may be in hot water.

I'm really impressed you were able to hit it! What happened to you all after that?

It was hovering pretty low. It was during the town fair, and they were selling helicopter rides of the town (this is a town of 2000 BTW). The cops got involved and we had to go to the station and write apology letters and do community service to appease the pilot, who in turn did not press any charges.

Step 1 - Take picture of drone hovering over your house

Step 2 - Contact lawyer, sue federal government

Step 3 - ???????

Step 4 - PROFIT!!

Jkj wrote:

It was hovering pretty low. It was during the town fair, and they were selling helicopter rides of the town (this is a town of 2000 BTW). The cops got involved and we had to go to the station and write apology letters and do community service to appease the pilot, who in turn did not press any charges.

You will write this on the blackboard 1000 times.

I absolutely, positively, will never again, in a commmunity setting or otherwise, fire my potato gun at a helicopter, and get potato snot all over the rotors, and the pilot.

nee: Ander Thoul wrote:

Step 1 - Take picture of drone hovering over your house

Step 2 - Contact lawyer, sue federal government

Step 3 - ???????

Step 4 - PROFIT!!

Suing the federal government for trespass? I don't think most tort lawyers wold take that case.

Hey hey hey wrote:

nee: Ander Thoul wrote:

Step 1 - Take picture of drone hovering over your house

Step 2 - Contact lawyer, sue federal government

Step 3 - ???????

Step 4 - PROFIT!!

Suing the federal government for trespass? I don't think most tort lawyers wold take that case.

No lawyer takes that case. A lawyer would probably be committing malpractice to take it. Good luck proving damages.

Your best bet here would be to complain to the government and get it resolved. If that doesn't work, you may exercise reasonable force to defend your property in most states.

would it be trespassing if the paparazzi had a remote controlled helicopter toy fly 10 feet above your window to record video? or invasion of privacy?

what happens if the toy moves up 200 feet and then uses telescopic vision?

In the US, 20 feet is the same as 399 feet. It's not until you reach 400 feet that you are in official US airspace. So if you can shoot down a drown one foot over you head, you should be able to take one down at 200 feet as well.

20=400 wrote:

... It's not until you reach 400 feet that you are in official US airspace..

Incorrect. FAA aispace categories go to ground level, but drones aren't FAA regulated. However, there are some laws that do matter here. Try blazing away at random objects from your front yard within city limits and see what the cops think of it. The second amendment does not specifically give anyone the right to be a moron.

If the neighbor kid keeps driving his remote control car in my driveway can I shoot the car? It's not even FAA airspace, just my concrete and I wouldn't shoot at the kid.

What about the neighbor's cat pooping in my flowerbeds? What about with a pellet gun?

Does the 2nd amendment cover this?

Definitely shoot it down. And then when you miss and your bullet comes down and kills someone two miles away you can tell their family you were concerned about your privacy

My rights? wrote:

What about the neighbor's cat pooping in my flowerbeds? What about with a pellet gun?

Yes, blow it away.

My rights? wrote:

If the neighbor kid keeps driving his remote control car in my driveway can I shoot the car? It's not even FAA airspace, just my concrete and I wouldn't shoot at the kid.

What about the neighbor's cat pooping in my flowerbeds? What about with a pellet gun?

Does the 2nd amendment cover this?

No. But if the neighbor kid poops in your driveway, you're covered.

Well, can I use a device that shoots a net over it and drag it down?