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If this kind of thing keeps up it wouldn't be much of a stretch for drones to be banned from civilian ownership in many parts of the world.
by bleepblorp 6y ago
If this kind of thing keeps up it wouldn't be much of a stretch for drones to be banned from civilian ownership in many parts of the world.
- tootahe45 6y agoReally all it takes is for one incident where someone gets killed. We live in a ban-happy society that doesn't consider the consequences of banning absolutely everything except maybe videogames.
- Moeg 6y agoAs far as I know C4 isn't for civilians either..
- DuskStar 6y agoTannerite is, though. (And where it isn't, blasting charges for mining are. And where those aren't, fertilizer probably still is. Explosives are hard, yet also far easier than you'd think)
- Spooky23 6y agoBuy those things and you’ll end up on a list and under surveillance quickly.
- smolder 6y agoDoesn't that imply you're already under surveillance? The list that we're on is: anyone who is alive and can be surveiled.
- Spooky23 6y agoNo, but there are specific collaborations for high risk purveyors of things like explosive precursors. If you show up at a farm store to buy certain fertilizers in unusual quantities, that interaction will likely be reported or otherwise flagged.
- opless 6y agoYou'll find that regular fertilizer has explosion retardant additives. Which made me think (and was confirmed later) that the Beirut explosion was 'weapons grade' ammonium nitrate, rather than the stuff sold to civilians. For instance; https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v073n022.p006 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v073n022.p006
- Teever 6y agoThe issue will be enforcement of these laws. How will you regulate the possession and distribution of IMUs and electric motors? Hell most of the parts you need to build a drone are available in a used cellphone and many of the rest can be 3d printed.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoTo underscore your point, here's an example of how easy it is to get god-tier military hardware in Mexico from one of the many people breaking bad across the border in the US. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming-mexican-cartels-inside-story-of-a-texas-gun-smuggling-ring-866836/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/arming... This fella in Texas was selling .50-cals and miniguns straight to the Cartels for years. There are likely many, many more like him. Mexican think tanks have spent years trying to figure out how the hell to stop the massive flow of weapons into Mexico from Texas and Arizona. https://www.mexicoevalua.org/mexicoevalua/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/000PolicyBrief_Seguridad.pdf https://www.mexicoevalua.org/mexicoevalua/wp-content/uploads... US think tanks too, notably David Shirk at USD has done a bunch of work on this. https://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/way_of_the_gun.pdf https://catcher.sandiego.edu/items/peacestudies/way_of_the_g...
- sukilot 6y agoThere was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoI think a lot of it has shifted over into meth as well, with the availability of cheap precursors from China, and loose security on ports. Can't stop it at the source anymore.
- nradov 6y agoIn 2019 the Trump administration considered formally designating the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. They backed off on that approach, but had they gone ahead it probably would have led to drone strikes. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50697635