{"id":4649,"date":"2018-12-21T20:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3d.coldstreams.com\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2018-12-21T20:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:55:56","slug":"you-knew-this-was-coming-drone-users-should-be-regulated-and-registered-in-the-same-way-as-firearms-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/2018\/12\/21\/you-knew-this-was-coming-drone-users-should-be-regulated-and-registered-in-the-same-way-as-firearms-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"You knew this was coming: \u201cDrone users should be regulated and registered in the same way as firearms certificates.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is in the U.K.:<\/p>\n

\u201cA drone in the wrong hands could be just as lethal as a gun.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are unregulated and can easily be bought by anyone online for under \u00a330. Even the cheapest has a range of 150 metres and can fly for half an hour.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrone users should be regulated and registered in the same way as firearms certificates.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Motorist says he saw Gatwick drone pilot frantically packing up two craft before racing off on a bike amid airport shutdown<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Note – there’s a lot of oddities in this story and some things – like 30 pound quadcopters flying for half an hour – that are not true.<\/p>\n

The logic is kind of weird. In the U.S., firearms killed over 30,000 people in 2017 alone. Model aircraft? To the best of our knowledge, no one in the nearly century has been killed by model aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We just knew this was coming: “\u201cDrone users should be regulated and registered in the same way as firearms certificates.\u201d The model aircraft hobby is about to be regulated out of existence. They will not ban it – but they will make it very expensive and cumbersome to legally fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/3d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}