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All Drones in U.S. to Require Federal Registration

posted by n1 on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the department-of-droneland-security dept.

takyon writes:

The U.S. Department of Transportation is set to announce plans to require registration for every drone sold:

Have a drone? You're going to have to register it with the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to NBC News.

The federal government will announce a plan within days that will require anyone who buys a drone to register it with the Department of Transportation, NBC reported Friday evening.

A Department of Transportation spokesperson told MarketWatch that U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and Administrator Michael Huerta of the Federal Aviation Administration will release more details on Monday at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.

"The hobbyist drone community has self-regulated itself for decades," said Lisa Ellman, co-chair of the unmanned aircraft systems practice at Hogan Lovells, a New York–based law firm. "But with the technology getting so cheap and improving so much, we have more and more drones."

FAA official Rich Swayze said last month that the agency expects that a million drones could be sold this holiday season.

"A lot of people are buying them and thinking they are toys," Ellman said. "They are not toys."

Florida lawyer Jonathan Rupprecht, author of a book on drone law, said he believes any plan centered around drone registration is a necessary first step toward regulating drones but is curious how the regulation will play out and whether the rule will apply to hobbyists with small drones.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snow on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:12PM

    by Snow (1601) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:12PM (#252467) Journal

    What about the part about a "well regulated Militia"? How does that fit into your view of the 2nd amendment?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:54PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:54PM (#252492) Journal
    That is non-binding. It is a justification for why the Second Amendment exists.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 20 2015, @10:03PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 20 2015, @10:03PM (#252497) Journal
    Seriously, just read that first phrase

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State

    and then answer the question, what did it tell us to do? Does US Congress have a constitutional obligation to set up nation-wide militia now? Does the Supreme Court then have to rule on whether those militia meet some completely unspecified condition labeled "well regulated"? Of course not. It's just telling us that the writers of the amendment thought being able to create a "well regulated militia" was important to a democracy.