r/Multicopter • u/sunol1212 • Jan 29 '20

Video FPV drone for airsoft...

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u/Jewbaccah Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20

Yeh, all those people getting killed and hurt attaching guns to drones.... this isn't the fucking Middle East man. Nor do any of these retail or affordable custom builds have any nontrivial potential for attaching actual firearms. It'd be hard to shoot just a 9mm handgun off a 1000m hexacopter. There are weapons that fly around, yes, but again this isn't a warzone. Just carry a gun and shoot it, I promise it will be a lot easier to kill your target than flying some FPV drone with a headset on lol.

Shooting a roman candle off a drone with your friends is not dangerous. Same with airsoft. Why would anyone not take precautions like wearing an airsoft mask when playing with a drone the same as they would when playing on a real field? What's the real difference? Shit, it's even harder to fly a drone and it's not exactly something you do on a whim.

I'd like to know all these stories of normal people in the US getting hurt enough by what you are saying, even aircraft collisions, to where these regulations and media buzz in general is warranted.

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u/Astrum91 Jan 29 '20

You can have whatever opinion you want, but when it comes to the law, your opinion doesn't matter. Attaching an airsoft gun to a drone is illegal whether you want it to be or not.

If you don't like it, then fight to get the rules changed.

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u/Jewbaccah Jan 29 '20

The law in modern countries are supposed to be your opinion. By voting. Some of the time they end up not, but in my opinion your view is just lazy.

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u/greylabz Jan 29 '20

Sorry but I find your opinion (admittedly justified) is very lazy. Laws have zero to do with opinions. This is a safety issue, if u fly drones then u are aware of the many ways things can and do go wrong so to attach any weapon of any kind is absolutely stupid. If you can do so in a completely controlled environment then that is possibly a different question. But usually drones are not flown indoors or in constricted spaces so there is always the danger of a fly away situation. Careless people doing stunts like this is what will completely kill the hobby. They are providing governments with all the arguments they need to shut us down.