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by jjkeddo199 954 days ago
As other commenters have mentioned, US American's ease of access to firearms does not extend to their usage. If you buy a weapon and wrongly shoot someone, there is a system in place to make sure you are found and punished. There is no such system in place for catching people flying drones.
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Sure there is (if you use that drone as a weapon). It would be the same investigation as someone putting a bomb at your front door. They’d analyze the components and narrow down the people with the motive and figure out which one bought them.
> there is a system in place to make sure you are found and punished

Famously, this system works well after it would be useful.

Have you not heard of remote-id?

It's a legal requirement for drones above 250g to broadcast not only their position but also the position of the operator and their identification number.

Yeah, I am pretty sure the people of Hamas are following the guidelines and have satisfied all of the regulatory requirements before flying their small grenade carry-on drones.
I'm pretty sure the people of Hamas aren't flying drones in Cleveland.

And the FCC is pretty damn ruthless about finding and triangulating signals that don't comply with their rules.

There are custom firmwares out to bypass these types of things, unfortunately.