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Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:00PM (#44162430)
> there are going to have to be regulations about which air corridors they can use (altitude and routes) or it will be chaos

Agree. But a good way to ensure that doesn’t happen is to have folks shooting at drones.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Pet_Ant on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:07PM (#44162494)
Bullets fall down and can be deadly, so anyone doing so should at least be prosecuted for reckless endangerment if not assault with a deadly weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Enginerrrd on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:11PM (#44162543)
Most people seriously looking to shoot down a drone would be using a shotgun and bird shot, so that's essentially a non-issue.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by bryanlarsen on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:16PM (#44162577)
Shotguns are only good for about 100 feet, most delivery drones transit higher than that.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by DaSHacka on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:48PM (#44165049)
I'd think people would get progressively more interested in shooting them the lower they're flying anyway
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by bryanlarsen on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:05AM (#44170323)
Yeah, the article is talking about delivery drones which will be over 100 feet unless it's delivering to you or your neighbor. Ones under 100 feet are much more likely to be toy or spy drones which are much more likely to be a nuisance or worse.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by fc417fc802 on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:26AM (#44166615)
If it's out of range of a shotgun you are almost certainly breaking federal law by shooting at it. Conversely if it's within range of a shotgun you might get dragged through court by the FAA but I think you could likely win if you have the resources to burn.

But anyway if you aren't rich enough to laugh off half a decade of court costs then you probably shouldn't shoot at them at all.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:14PM (#44162567)
There's a lot of idiots and a lot of small arms
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by FireBeyond on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:07PM (#44164257)
Too many people think they're some Scout Sniper for it to be a non-issue.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by BWStearns on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:29PM (#44165323)
https://www.reddit.com/r/drones/comments/1fvqiqz/angry_flori...

At least one Florida man is out there plinking Walmart drones at 400 feet with a 9mm. Saw another who took one down from a boat also with a pistol (probably 9mm also), but can't find the video now.

The Venn diagram of "shoots at drones" and "concerned with other people's safety" is two separate circles.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by catigula on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:01PM (#44162445)
I highly doubt people are shooting at drones. Shooting at any aircraft is incredibly illegal & dangerous. I'd assume people have better self-preservation instincts than that.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by SoftTalker on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:10PM (#44162531)
People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse. I don't think such people have self-preservation instincts, or at least they aren't developed against threats such as "this might lead to an investigation and possible criminal charges some time in the future"
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by JumpCrisscross on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:20PM (#44162625)
> People shoot at cars (road rage) which is way worse

Most people don’t have dashcams. Drones, on the other hand, would have evidence of both the crime and criminal intent.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by sneak on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:39PM (#44165376)
People very very rarely (almost never) shoot at cars due to road rage.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by sib on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:07PM (#44162497)
You know what they say about assuming...
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by dole on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:56PM (#44162971)
it makes an ass of u and massad ayoob
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:15PM (#44162570)
You would be incorrect. It happens frequently and gets prosecuted.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by catigula on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:18PM (#44162598)
The word "frequently" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:20PM (#44162621)
Completely up to what that word means to you.

Just do a search for "charged with shooting at drone".

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by catigula on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:24PM (#44162657)
I had AI do a collation of news events and the general conclusion was

> Civilian shootings at drones occur at a rate likely below 15 incidents per year in the U.S., compared to over one million registered drones.

I'm going to have to conclude that this strains and breaks the bounds of the term 'frequently' and the initial term 'incorrect'.

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @04:26PM (#44162671)
So more than once a month an idiot is in the news for shooting at a drone.

Depending on where you live, they might even be neighbors of yours.

Something showing up every month is pretty damn frequent, especially when it leaks into national news and always grabs headlines, yet idiots still do it.

I mean if a plane fell out of the sky once a month, is that frequently?

What about if your bank blocked access to your account once a month when you needed it?

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Larrikin on Monday June 02, 2025 @06:33PM (#44163921)
Your strained analogy would actually be if any bank blocked one account from all bank accounts once a month.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:08PM (#44164271)
I guess some of us count life in web requests.
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Larrikin on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:10AM (#44166176)
Can you write up a blog post about how many months of the year you are being blocked from banking?
Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by esseph on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:58AM (#44166446)
How much "frequent" means to you is entirely what I posted immediately as a response.

I frankly don't give a shit to spend time on this with you anymore.

It's pointless to debate our personal definitions.

Have fun

Re:Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property? by Larrikin on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:30AM (#44169901)
Don't be pedantic on the internet and then double down and get mad when called out on it. Just argue in good faith and admit when you're wrong.