Can you elucidate what you meant?
Which is why I asked
> Can you elucidate what you meant?
For various locally-defined values of "low".
I expect a police drone to be visually distinguished.
In fact, we know that the gun nuts in the US were broadly on the side of SUPPORTING those two things.
An absurd amount of the most aggressive 2A types are literally just cops, you know, the actual boot that would stand on the neck in any tyranny situation. They'll scream and cry about the ATF and then talk with their cop buddies while smoking some MJ, in a state without recreational cannabis laws.
In short, they are dishonest, whether they are smart enough to realize it or not.
To be clear, I have a lot of guns, but it's not because I have any special love of the US BoR or even a belief that they are useful against state actors. Or, even a real enjoyment of shooting.
I have guns because my neighbors all have guns and think queer/trans/atheist/lefty/etc folks are literally demonic. They are explicitly waiting for any suspension of regular government in which they can play their fantasy of a "purge". I'd much rather be collecting pretty dresses, but this is how it is where I live.
I would say that the parent comment is accurate in noting 2A loving folks don't want government authority applied to -them-, but it's -only- to them and many are living in the privileged fantasy that this power will never be applied to them and only to their grievances- hence the boot licking they do.
I don't think that's dishonesty, I think it is delusional. And they generally go from being "normal conservatives" to out right fascists just as soon as that fantasy weakens even a little.
The NRA's complete silence on the murder of Breonna Taylor by government agents, as retaliation for Kenneth Walker exercising his 2A natural right to self defense (at home at night!). I'm unable to find a kind way of explaining that away. "Freedom" culture seems to have become just as post-reality detached from effective values as everything else.
They will absolutely identify themselves. The reason you should be worried is the endless, expensive process you’ll be subjected to after they knock on your door.
Are you going to shoot people for knocking on your door?
One wonders how they'd keep tracking it down a secret especially if the perpetrator was smart and gave them a decent run for their money.
It would be like shooting someone for taking pictures of your house from the street.
I'm relatively certain law enforcement would have opinions about that.
If a drone is trying to gain access to your home, do you have the right to defend against it using deadly force? Meaning; Force that would be deadly to a human attacker.
That said, the FAA's jurisdiction ends with the National Airspace, which physically ends the moment it crosses into a structure.
There's plenty of states where you don't even have that.
The FAA may have someone who knows, but the interesting people wouldn't be the ones to show up when there's no need for them to do so.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Injuries
https://www.faa.gov/Air_traffic/Publications/atpubs/aim_html...
Damaging an aircraft is considered criminal aircraft sabotage under 18 U.S.C. 32
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/32
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
There is nothing in there about if the aircraft is legally or illegally operated.
https://dronedj.com/2024/06/30/florida-walmart-delivery-dron...
And for more resources for drone pilots: https://www.dronepilotgroundschool.com/shooting-drone/
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Firing on drones is a good way to lose your freedoms and even beyond that one's rights to have firearms.
It seems to me what's happening is a "Streisand Effect" where the whole attitude of "go away, nothing to see here" is in fact maximizing attention and defeating the purpose of hiding this away.
If it were me I'd put a band-aid on a drone, fly it to a person, and say, "we are testing military capabilities to render first aid to our soldiers" or something similar. It's not a lie, it's good optics, adversaries can worry about it... then put whatever it is on ice for a while until the heat dies down
How exactly do you follow a fixed-wing drone? Some of the high-end/industrial drones has pretty impressive ranges.
And even if you can't follow one all the way to its destination you can still take some real good pictures with flash and plaster them all over the news and wait for someone to say "I pump fuel and sweep floors at airport X and a bunch of dickbags with black suburbans and bad attitudes have a hanger full of those things".
Since you're replying to a question about tracking fixed wing it's worth mentioning that their range can be well over 1000 miles as some of the Iranian Shahed drones have a range of almost 1600 miles.
Personally I'd rather have evidence of this before dwelling on all the possible tragedies here.
They are - obviously - lying. This screams secrecy to me. All 3 know that these drones are not a threat. They aren't US military because they are a 3 letter agency program. They know there's nothing to worry about it, but they won't tell you any more details. Which has been the modus operandi for secret services for decades, so I'm surprised it's such an issue?