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Anyone that starts taking potshots at drones over their property is risking federal charges for shooting at an aircraft.

• manwe150 5y ago
  I thought (more relevantly) there were also laws about shooting without a backdrop to catch stray bullets, since this sounds like a densely populated area, also perhaps shooting towards people: bullets that go up, come down again somewhere else at nearly the same speed.
  • leephillips 5y ago
    No, they come down at their terminal velocity, which is far slower. Could give you a bump on the head, though.
    • jfk13 5y ago
      They can still kill you. https://blogs.bcm.edu/2019/12/31/what-goes-up-must-come-down-the-dangers-of-celebratory-gunfire/ https://blogs.bcm.edu/2019/12/31/what-goes-up-must-come-down... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912041/
      • leephillips 5y ago
        Do you claim to be able to understand the second link? Here is a sentence from that paper: “The mortality rate from falling bullets in general is about 32% that is significantly higher than nonfalling bullets 2%–6% although the latter's impact is much more potential to kill.” I read the first one too. The problem with these anecdotes is that none of them rule out that the injuries were caused by a bullet on a shallow trajectory, with velocity much greater than terminal velocity. The only evidence is that no one heard a shot, but this is not convincing. Nevertheless, there is a potential for serious injury and nobody should be shooting into the air for fun.
    • mkl 5y ago
      If they go straight up they come down at terminal velocity, but if they go up on a shallower angle they maintain a lot of speed. Mythbusters: https://mythresults.com/episode50 https://mythresults.com/episode50