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The US' brief period of registration-free drone flight is over -- President Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2018, and it revives the registration requirement for civilian drones. Robotic fliers between 0.5lbs and 55lbs need to be submitted to a database if they're going to remain legal. A Washington, DC appeals court had struck down the FAA's original requirement in May, arguing that it didn't have the authority to regulate model aircraft, but that clearly wasn't a deterrent. The FAA had said said it would rethink its approach to the regulation after its earlier defeat.
Naturally, the FAA is slightly giddy. In a statement to TechCrunch, the agency welcomed the return of registration arguing that it helped "promote safe and responsible drone operation."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/12/trump-signs-bill-requiring-drone-registration/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by J053 on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:34PM (7 children)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:38PM (4 children)
but just try to suggest registering guns
You do realize almost all guns sold have a serial number. It is written down and recorded. Your local police usually keep track of it. The federal gov also tracks it.
Go try to buy a gun. You will find out *very* quickly there is a decent amount of red tape to go along with your new shiny gun.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:43PM (1 child)
Yeah, it is so difficult and convoluted the Vegas shooter was barely able to assemble a mobile arsenal . . .
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:47PM
Name one regulation that would have stopped that other than banning them.
People dead set on committing a crime will do it. But somehow magically 'the law' would have stopped him from doing it? Is that your proposition?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by J053 on Thursday December 14 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by leftover on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:23AM
Internet sales are tracked so long as the sellers play by the rules. Shipments go exclusively to registered dealers who then file the transactions. The problem is back to the crooks not being lawful.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @02:01AM (1 child)
Registration would be a governmental restriction of the right of the people to keep and bear arms; it would give government a say, but the government expressly does not get a say.
The American theory of government is based around checks and balances of the powers. Well, one of the most important checks and balances is an armed People against a Government; the 2nd Amendment is not for hunting, but rather for securing the freedom of The People against any form of Tyranny, foreign or domestic.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by MostCynical on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:03AM
So, how's that armed revolution going? Or is only "tyranny, beyond a point, which maybe the point at which I have already been locked up"?
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