>I'm not saying that drone registration thwarts illegal use, but at least something was done by regulators. Drone regulation has done precisely nothing to thw

>I'm not saying that drone registration thwarts illegal use, but at least something was done by regulators. Drone regulation has done precisely nothing to thwart illegal use, while imposing substantial cost and inconvenience on legitimate actors. The laws don't stop me from buying a heavy-lift drone from China, nor do they stop me from doing something nefarious with it. At best, the regulations have slightly reduced the risk of inadvertent airprox incidents, but they have been utterly useless in addressing the sorts of risks they were supposed to combat.