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Re:Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones by zdragnar on Sunday August 30, 2020 @08:37PM (#24327351)
It is quite easy to make your own bombs and firearms as well, all with perfectly legal materials. They may not have the effectiveness of commercially made versions, but they'll get the job done in a pinch.

Typically, I think, laws against possession of such homemade illegal goods are enforced as add-on charges to other crimes, unless you are selling them.

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Re:Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones by imtringued on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:34AM (#24329497)
There was a German terrorist trying to shoot up a Synagogue in Halle. He had an impressive stash of homemade firearms yet none of them were powerful enough to actually open the thick wooden gate to the synagogue. A ladder and a knife would have killed more people.

You're going to run into the same situation with drones. It is easy to imagine some super complicated drone based attack scheme when there are far simpler and more effective methods of taking care of a target involving firearms.

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