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I have serious doubts about anyone shooting down a drone for a one time short-term event, such as described in the article. It seems to me that it would be pretty easy to tell if it's an aerial peeping tom or an innocent happenstance.

I have serious doubts this lady just happened to decide to clean her guns, on her front porch nonetheless, and these guys just happened to pull up, set up a table, and start flying their drone. Possible? Yes. Probable? No. I think it's much more likely it's been an ongoing occurrence.

Why else would she just happen to have some ammo handy? At the very least, she had time to go inside to get ammo. I just thought of a possible answer to my own question - Maybe she normally keeps the 20ga loaded and unloaded it then and there before cleaning it.

MechAg94 wrote:

Abraham wrote:Glockster,

Yes, yes I know, whenever they overstep their boundaries, droners launch into tortured, self-justifying reasons why it's perfectly OK for them to snoop with their wee flying machines.

Why the very thought they'd snoop into someone's personal space, home, yard, is balderdash they say, harrumph!

Not buying it, nope, wouldn't be prudent.

Here's the gist of my view point as it pertains to drones: My yard, stay out of it!

As I am sure you have noted, the drone operators here keep using very specific wording when they defend their operations. It is the same as if you said you would defend yourself from a hand-to-hand attack their rebuttal is that you can't shoot them across the street. Well, if you are across the street, you have nothing to worry about.

In most of these cases, the drone operators always claim they were very high up and the shooters claim they were down low snooping. It is always difficult to prove unless someone pulls out video. Rarely do all the facts appear in the article.

It was interesting to note the comment in the article pointing out that the charges have been dropped against most of the people who shot a drone down.

If it can be brought down with bird shot, it was not "very high up".