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FAA Releases New Drone Authorization List — See Who Applied to Have Them

Feb. 8, 2013 2:33pm Liz Klimas

Last year, alarm was raised among some Americans regarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s expanding legislation for drone use over U.S. soil and the list of 63 authorized drone sites in the country. With more recent news that the Obama administration has approved drone strikes on some U.S. citizens, which some have said is “chilling” and the government saying “we can kill you,” the FAA has recently released an updated list of domestic drone authorization applicants.

The list was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The list shows 20 new applicants, mostly law enforcement and universities but also the first tribal entity, EFF noted.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Releases FAAs Updated Drone Authorization List

(Image: Google Maps/EFF)

Here are few of the new authorization applicants EFF called out:

The State Department
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Barona Band of Mission Indians Risk Management Office (near San Diego, California)
Canyon County Sheriff’s Office (Idaho)
Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office (Northwest Oregon)
Grand Forks Sheriff’s Department (North Dakota)
King County Sheriff’s Office (covering Seattle, Washington)
Medina County Sheriff’s Office (Ohio)
Ohio Department of Transportation (Ohio)
Sinclair Community College (Ohio)
Lorain County Community College (Ohio)

EFF’s Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney for the privacy advocacy organization, wrote the hope of the nonprofit in releasing this information is that people will ask their own local law enforcement about their plans for drone use.

“We also encourage people to ask hard questions of government officials about who is funding drone development in their communities and what policies the government will demand agencies follow if they fly drones,” Lynch wrote on the website. “We need greater transparency and citizen push-back to protect Americans from privacy-invasive domestic drone use.”

An example of local law enforcement authorized to fly drones that just now might be getting ready to deploy them is the Arlington Police Department in Texas.

According to WFAA News 8, the city has two drones purchased in 2011 with grant money from the Department of Homeland Security that it has not yet used. Here’s some explanation as to the reason why, according to the news station:

The FAA regulates unmanned aerial systems, commonly known as drones. Arlington does have the agency’s permission to test the aircraft away from crowds, buildings, and highways. Practice sessions with the aircraft have been restricted to Lake Arlington, behind the police department’s training academy.

“The process can be frustrating, but ultimately we understand that the process takes time,” Rivera said.

The FAA turned down our request to go on camera, but they sent us a statement regarding unmanned aerial systems, saying safety it its top concern.

“The FAA regulates operation of Unmanned Aerial Systems to ensure that they pose no hazard to manned aircraft or people and property on the ground,” said FAA spokesperson Lynn Lunsford.

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Also delaying the program’s final approval is Arlington’s location.

A big chunk of the city lies in one of the busiest air corridors in the country. D/FW International Airport, as well as Arlington and Grand Prairie Municipal Airports are all nearby.

These regulations aside the police department told WFAA in a statement that within six weeks they expect to make a positive announcement regarding its drone program. The department said the equipment would be used in situations including search and rescue, SWAT and major accidents.

Watch WFAA’s report:

Read more in the EFF’s post here. See the map EFF pulled together of all the domestic drone sites here.

(H/T: Gizmodo)

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:24pm
Colleges – “Youth civil defense force, better funded than the military” We all know that colleges have long been Institutions targeted for indoctrination. Obama has been calling for loading them up with kids under the strong arm of Government subsidized and controlled tuition.
Kids have been stripped of job opportunities in the same process. Who will hire them? The Government? Unionized workers on Government payroll. Government with no “budget”, that can do what it wants. “Youth civil defense force”

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- redfish52
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:58pm
  These drones are going to be so easy to shoot…I can’t wait to see one….
  
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- patriot30-378
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Really redfish? Are you going to walk around with a gun looking at the sky all day? When do you want to live? About the first time that a drone attacks anyone domestically, it will be on like donkey kong. The feds have no idea how pissed off the general population is right now.
  
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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:22pm
  But here is the problem. You will not know if they are hijacked (software controlled), Flown as part of a terrorist strike, no matter how primitive, or possibly just doing something useful like tracking a criminal in the process of fleeing (although i do not know why we need drones to track criminals in flight, IF we have our gun rights).
  We are left to make a forced assumption that they might not be friendly. You could load these things with serin gas or anthrax and fly them over the breadbasket of the World. You could target elementary schools where many of obama’s friends have said “Kill their babies”.
  These things will need to be blown out of the air, otherwise they are the perfect mode of a terrorist attack. How stupid would a terrorist be to miss this? Same kind of stupid as obama to miss this?
  What are the chances?
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:45pm
  IN NEW JERSEY UNMARKED HELICOPTER GUN SHIPS FLY REGULAR PATROLS 24/7 OVER NEW JERSEY NEIGHBORHOODS AT DANGEROUS TREE TOP LEVEL
  
  This is even done late at night at low levels. A gun ship was observed hovering in my neighborhood for over 5 minutes at 100 feet. I was able to give the pilot the Italian F sign and he moved closer. I was able to get the tail number of the chopper, looked it up on the internet and found out it was registered to the US Depart of Energy in Colorado.
  
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- missdagnytaggart
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:14pm
  1984 anyone?
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Glad to see Missouri has not yet applied for any. I hope we stay that way.
  
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- cptenn94
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 7:07pm
  @patriot I think you forget how brainwashed the sheep are. Many of them could have a drone kill their next door neighbor, and as long as the media/obama tells them something, they would not care that much. There will be some who would get ticked off, but many would ignore it. You know what they say, ignorance is bliss.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:46pm
  The German people ignored the trains, and the American people will ignore the drones. The problem was not the trains; the problem was Hitler.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:27pm
  Target practice time when you see one of those drones invading your personal airspace.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:48am
  I want my own personal drone to irritate public officials. It should have GPS navigation so it can fly to specific locations at night. It could hover in the mayor’s backyard, look in the the county attorney’s picture window and circle the country dump.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:56am
  Personally, I don’t have anything to hide or be afraid of. But that’s just me. I see from the posts here that many are afraid their illegal or immoral activities might be exposed. Understood. But the sad fact is that in this country, if you’re outside your house, the paparazzi or the local news or your neighbor or anyone can legally photograph you or videotape your activities. That’s a sad fact about America.
  
  My suggestion to you is to move all your illegal activities indoors. Cover your garden with some kind of camouflage netting.
  
  If the government wants to look further they will need to get a warrant.
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:14am
  Sorry guys, the only way you’d conceivably be able to shoot the type of drones under discussion with any sort of rifle is during takeoff or landing. These things cruise at around 5,000 to 7,000 or more feet up. Even a Barret .50 could barely lob a round anywhere near the minimum altitude, and that’s only if you eliminated the fact you’re shooting nearly straight up, and it would be like throwing a rock even if you hit the drone for all the energy & velocity it would have.
  
  Rather than try to radio-jam the drone’s receiver with a super-strong semi-directional signal aimed roughly at the drone (big tracking problem, plus traceable by ground forces), the better strategy is to build a very directional high-gain antenna (not hard to do with minimal handy-man-class tools, and it wouldn’t be huge…just refe) and aim that strong directional beam at THE SATELLITE! A simple hobbyist-astronomer’s telescope tracking mechanism could keep it on-target.
  
  This is much, much more effective, less easily-traceable by ground units due to the directionality (the satellites don’t have the ability to pinpoint signals to any great degree by themselves), and it actually cripples MANY drones (and other tactical, strategic, and communications data streams carried by the same birds) at once.
  
  It doesn’t require an operator present once set, so it forces them to expend huge resources and manpower to track down a relatively-cheap automatic device.
  
  I wonder if this post just moved me up o
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 5:26am
  Oops, sentence cut off.
  
  Anyways, I was saying to just use the antenna projects and design info in the ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook for the antenna design. Might be able to build a serviceable antenna for the purpose from a a couple feet of 1″x1″ and some wire coat-hangers, even, given a reasonably-strong transmitter or other source of RF noise blanketing the right band of frequencies.
  
  There are also websites that provide free and detailed orbital & tracking data for tons of US military, government, and “spy” satellites that can be found with a Google search.
  
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- smv803
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:00pm
  So basically, our esteemed and much loved commander can issue a kill in any of these cities and claim it was in the interest of national security? His enemies list is growing and no one sees a problem with this? If you speak against his policies, Will the killings increase?
  You stupid liberals who voted for this madman, you could be next!
  
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- Beepster
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:46pm
  Redfish, you own SA-7′s? Those things do NOT fly in range of rifle shots, much less pistol shots. They fly between 10-15k feet. The cameras/sensors do the work. If it’s loaded for “bear”, ya can’t run fast enough to get away. ONLY way to take them out is on the ground. RPG’s would come in handy for that. Know someone in your State Guards?????
  
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- Protoham
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:31pm
  Just how far do you think you can shoot? 20,000 feet (about 4 miles) straight up will be pretty hard to do. And guess what, they can shoot back.
  
  Don’t get to crazy!!
  
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- Protoham
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:36pm
  These things will be hovering above at 20,000 feet where you won’t hear them or see them, but they will see you monitoring your speed and life. They can fly for 22 hours at a time and run infrared and night vision. 1984 is here being ushered in by the Demidiots who thing Big Government is the answer.
  
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- toomuchgovt
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:36pm
  Yep, my area is on the list. I’ve seen it buzzing around, right around marijuana season.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 4:04am
  Redfish52 – which would explain why the Taliban, who are probably much better shots than you, have been shooting them out of the sky. Not.
  
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- mzar1949
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 9:55am
  @REDFISH, Come on now, lets get real, You, me, or anyone else is going to really shoot a Drone or shoot at a Drone… 1st of all they fly extremely high, and very quite. You may think you are shooting a Drone but may well be shooting at a Helicopter. I don’t want to read about you in the newspaper or see you on local news.
  
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- zman173rd
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:43am
  @ patriot30-378
  “The feds have no idea how pissed off the general population is right now.” Yes they do. Why do you thimk They’re purchasing all that hollow point ammo? I was in NC training for the past week. I went to a sporting goods store to buy some college teams sweatshirts for the family, and went to the gun rack in back to check on ammo prices. A guy back there was complaining that the store was limiting his ammo purchase to 4 boxes at a time. I mentioned the preceeding and asked why the gov’t needed all those Hollowpoints if the Geneva Convention said they were illegal in war. They just shrugged, thought I was a kook. Right over their heads and probably two thirds of the rest of the country. So where I’m going with this is It will be too late by the time the country wakes up. Did anybody jump on the story of that Army practice thing that went on in that Texas town? Nope. No one cares. Just feed me the Reality shows (dozens now) and sports broadcasts and let my brain rot out. IT”S TOO LATE.
  
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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:01pm
  This drone thing reminds me of how important preparedness is:
  
  http://reclaimingournation.blogspot.com/2013/02/emergency-food-supply.html
  http://www.mypatriotsupply.com/?Click=55623
  
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- SysAdminPgh
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 5:45pm
  If they THINK that American youth will actually work then oBoobo has some hard knocks coming… They used to walk into my office for interviews and the first words out of their mouths were how much they wanted to be paid, what titles they wanted and how many vacation days each year. When I explained that the job was an entry level job that paided $12.50 an hour with a 40 hour/week and NO paid vacation 99% walked out the door. We ended our college intern program because it was a joke. I even had one moron that just graduated from a local college brag about the “A” he had gotten because he spent months with OWS.
  
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Sicialian Eyeball
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:18pm
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:30pm
  So Florida is one of the states filing to not allow drones in it’s airspace, and yet you see four locations have applied for them.
  
  Yeppeeeee, typical gov. BS, and lies CONTINUOUSLY.
  
  At least the areas that have filed for them are all dumpacrap areas, although we know without doubt that they won’t stop until every inch of this country is under their communist rule, and dictatorship.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:50pm
  TONYPRO, To me, it looks as if either city or county authorities have made those requests and not the state. I hope the state is able to stop them.
  
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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:30pm
  Looks like Manistee and Ludington in Michigan requested them. They are both on Lake Michigan. Could be very useful when trying to search for the tourists who get caught in the rip currents – or boats lost in the elements.
  
  Most likely though, they will be used to spy on beach babes and to make sure everybody is being good citizens in their own back yards.
  
  Just wait until your adding an unapproved deck or having an unapproved fire at your house and you are suddenly face-to-face with a little drone helicopter “Mr. Cocheroo, you do not have a permit for this work, please stay where you are, help is on the way”
  
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- Godspeed9
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:13pm
  Johnny; Go Chips!
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:31am
  Meteor,.that’s so old school, don’t you know we write our own warrants now. SOP for a decade. Bush did it.
  
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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:48am
  In 2010, the census in the United States cost double the amount of the previous census taken in 2000. Why? President Obama ordered TWO census measurements to be taken at each residence in the United States. The first visit got your name and the name of everyone in your house. Then, he sent a SECOND census worker to your house that didn’t knock or even let you know they were there. Instead, that worker got the exact GPS coordinates of your front door for future drone patrols. Just another huge story buried by the State run media. See the excellent film below on everything that has being going on behind the scenes the past four years. They entire movie/doc is terrific but the part about the GPS coordinates of your front door starts at about the 50 minute 40 second mark.
  
  Link to Grant Jeffrey’s Film
  http://youtu.be/W3I8WmOQ_wA
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:13pm
Ill bet a couple hundred devoted Americans with mulitov Cocktails can put a drone base out of commission for a while and make it costly to attack American citizens. Old techniques are still usable and work even if they are easy to get and evrywhere. remember most all freedom fighters had to use low tech weapons to defeat their high tech attackers. Or have a thousand folks overrun the drone areas with jannet napolitano Scissors and stab anyone they can find. hmm im still working on a plan here

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- Bub47
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:32pm
  As a HAM radio operator and electronics engineer, I can tell you that radio control jamming is quite possible.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Saff SGT – good idea, but you would immediately be put on O’s kill list.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:56pm
  BUB47
  I was wondering if that was possible. Directional antenna?
  
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- TADTAD
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 10:52pm
  Bucket of water, auto ignition coil, 12V battery, jumper cables, radio antenna = TRQ32.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:37am
  @Tadtad
  
  Your design will interfere with cell phone calls, commercial radio signals and police radios. Another design is to strip the shielding off a spark plug wire and use the 12V Battery, ignition coil, spark plug, jumper cables and a switch. We should check with our engineers.
  
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- BobM
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:23am
  Drones have to land to refuel. One well placed shot? Fuel has to be delivered to the landing site. Landing sites have fuel storage. Drones are controlled at a remote site. ALL of these are “targets of opportunity”. HIGH POWERED lasers can be used to BLIND the electro-optical sensors by “frying” the sensor array. The companies that build these drones are also T.O.O.
  
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- integrican
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 4:01pm
  We NEED NERDS!!!! Fly my drone into your drone. A tragic accident, I’m afraid. Watch for the model airplane/copter industry to take a hit in the near future.
  
  TAIL ROTOR, TAIL ROTOR….I’M GOIN’ IN…..MAYDAY MAYDAY!!! (c;
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:13pm
Settle down my loyal subjects I need these drones to eliminate threats to my regime and of course to protect you. So I might want to take out some of my political enemies as Joe would say what’s the BFD?
This is just another tool in my belt to destroy your constitution and bill of rights and you idiots won’t do anything to stop me. Hell most of you not the people who use this site but people in general don’t even know they have a constitution or bill of rights let alone what their rights are,they’re idiots and my election and reelection proves it. So I’ll use my drones to kill off all the American citizens I choose to because well I’m your magnificent gay Marxist ruler and what I say goes,got it?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:46pm
  TIMEBOMB, Have been meaning to ask you. Is it true that you had your Wookie artificially inseminated?
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:18pm
  Dear loyal subject RJ yes I most certainly did since I have an aversion to women I had to go that route to make my sham marriage look legit.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:43pm
  TIMEBOMB, I thank you sir for making that crystal clear, and its what I had figured all along.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:55pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  Question; I’ve been wondering how close drones are allowed to get to major airports and military bases. We have TIA and McDill AFB in our area. I would assume the major airports would be a no fly zone for them.
  
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Gargent_Furball
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:11pm
could you shoot them down with an AK 47 ? or an AR 15 ? Bottle rocket ?

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:37pm
  You could throw a pair of scissors at them.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:52pm
  Depends how low they’re flying. If they dip low, and you have a long barrel 12 or 20 gauge shotgun with a good choke that holds pattern really well. As long as you use a load, I’m gonna go with steel shot since they’ll hold pattern better, more of them, and no reason to waste a slug or buckshot on it. You should be able to get a good hit. All depends on their altitude though. Good thing about shot is if you miss, the shot won’t hurt anything or anyone when it comes back down.
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:13pm
  lets fight drones with drones.
  
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- freenj
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:46pm
  @001
  These drones don’t fly too low, they have outstanding surveillance cameras, and of course are typically armed with my favorite rocket AGM-114 Hellfire air to surface missile. Plus the drones are a rather quiet species of electronically controlled aircraft. This is the reason they are rather effective. So, your idea of hitting them with a 12gauge is not typically going to happen. If you know that there up and near 50 cal with tracer would be more effective. But than again they are armed and may see you. Bye.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:57pm
  @Fishbone
  
  The military-style scissors are going to be outlawed. Citizens will only be allowed to own round-nosed scissors that do not exceed three inches in length. The law forbidding “running with scissors” is going to be strictly enforced in states with a democrat governor.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 4:15am
  No. Are you kidding? 5.56 rounds are only lethal to humans out to about 300 m. They are tiny bullets that don’t actually carry a lot of energy. You would need .50 cal ball or preferably cannon rounds to kill those things.
  
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fastgen1
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:10pm
Just remember, every coin has two sides, the corrupt goberment has them, so can the un-corrupt citizens have them. These drones are not rocket science, but radio controlled aircraft. What comes around, goes around. not many armored cars could withstand a direct hit with 10 lbs of c4.

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- Sicialian Eyeball
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:21pm
  Easy there.I know you’re PO’ed. I really dont think you want to get on the drone target list. You know they’re just itching for an excuse. Just sayin.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:00pm
  Not that I want to get on a list, but one cannot just buy SEE FOUR at the local hardware store.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:02pm
  you can buy a drone at toys r us…..
  
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Gargent_Furball
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:09pm
This is not going to be good for the Mexican Pot Growers in our National Parks. Darn.

Now the price of pot will go up Just Like the price of Booze during Prohibition. Darn

Now they have to create something new to grow, Darn

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- BetsyRoss1513
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:28pm
  That’s okay, I can grow my own now.
  
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- Lamarr01
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 2:07pm
  @Betsy
  
  Some congressman wants to tax marijuana. Medical marijuana will still need to be grown by a registered pharmaceutical company. The quality of your seed could be controlled by the FDA. Remember to check local zoning laws to see if a herb garden is allowed.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:08pm
Terrorists could launch these things and wreak havoc and death across wide areas 1,000s of times over 9/11 in a coordinated attack. They can bring the war straight to us.
Sanctioning drones is another attack on the 2nd amendment. Without drone capability of the average law abiding citizen- you are fundamentally stripped naked. How are you to tell one from the other in this case? You cannot trust a Government that will not call terror, terror UNLESS it threatens themselves.
You cannot trust a Government that watches an attack on American soil, as in benghazi and then says “SO WHAT”!

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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:15pm
  hopefully #6 shot will work well………or maybe hornady can come up with a dronemax round for the 5.56
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:54pm
  The US Govt is a terror organization, that’s why they can’t call terror “terror”. They’d implicate themselves.
  
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- Tom K
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:03pm
  @ GHANDI WAS A REPUBLICAN: Remember the college class that successfully took control of a drone in a sanctioned Government Experiment. The Terror Cells already in America do not need to launch their own drones, they could just take control of our Government’s existing squadron of both unarmed and armed drones. Deal with THAT you drone lovers. What is the percentage of Worker ” bees ” vs Drones working for our Federal Government ?
  
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- gbo
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 9:58pm
  @GHANDI (R)
  You cannot trust any government. Period.
  
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- guest233
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:36pm
  What has me concerned is what this government calls terrorist. Islamic terrorism is not so much a concern for Obama and his team as returning veterans, Americans who love their constitution and who own guns, have more than 3 days worth of food, enjoy independence. and have a deep love for their country. These are Obama’s enemies! At least according to a leaked memo by Homeland security. One thing the American ppl. don’t need are armed drones in the hands of a corrupt government.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 4:09am
  Thousands of times? Really? Millions of people?
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:06pm
Can normal citizens apply for them?

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- chemistatheart
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:15pm
  You have to be a pilot and also have a special pilot’s license to fly the drones. They are not toys.
  Folks here are assuming that the purpose of drones is for use by the government to attack citizens. My son is planning to attend Liberty University (a Christian, conservative university) to study unmanned aerial systems, and the purpose is NOT for attack of US citizens. Some graduates of Liberty’s program have already been hired to help in Afghanistan, but my son wants to be a commercial UAS pilot (he is already a private pilot) because it is the wave of the future—not for attacks, but for things such as land survey, possibly transport of cargo, and other commercial uses, as air space opens up in the US for UAS.
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:06pm
we are not defeated yet. we can find ways to combat this Communist act. put on your thinking caps we have the ways we just need the guts

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:38pm
  Read “The Harbinger” and pray and get others to read “The Harbinger.” It is more important and relevant than “Atlas Shrugged.”
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 5:56pm
  Hey Genes: Did you see that Idaho is thinking of required reading in school of Atlas Shrugged….great!!
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:03pm
we the citizens can get our own drones called model air planes, they can do the job if we get enough of them to combat these drones. Make it costly for these to operate. find the manufacturers of these and put them put of business. harass the employees of suck comapnies. Fight back on all fronts we can defeat them. Attack the supply routes economicaly and other ways. Use your heads here

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- DREDGE
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 9:12am
  And you don’t think they will ban model airplanes?????
  
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kapnkd
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:02pm
And hardly a one near any of our borders with Mexico – GO FIGURE!!!!!

Looks like it is more important to monitor the citizens instead of the illegals/drug traffickers.

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barber2
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:01pm
Well, as Obama has repeatedly said, ” If we can save the life of only one child, we are obligated….”

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- PureFox
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:20pm
  and it doesn’t matter, if millions lose their freedom.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:01pm
OK, I am in Ohio and I don’t understand why ODOT would need drones. Maybe the OSP, to catch speeders, but ODOT? Maybe it’s cheaper to map a road with a drone than rent a helicopter, but I doubt it.
Medina and Lorain Co. are next to Cleveland (Obama country) and Sinclair Community College is in Dayton. My guess is that the colleges want them to experiment with them?

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:12pm
  Sheriff’s offices I understand, but why so many colleges?
  
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- Exidor
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Sinclair Community College and a lot of other community colleges have training programs for drone pilots. Basically sitting at a console with two joysticks. I guess now they want the actual drones.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:02pm
  I have an RC Helicopter app on my iPad, why do they need a REAL drone when it can be done with a simulator?
  
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- etxdad
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:09pm
  It’ cheaper/faster to use google earth. Maybe even free. They aint buyin them to make maps.
  
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- NoU4EN
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:03pm
  We trained the 9/11 terrorists at our local flight schools – hugely successful. Gotta ramp up the training of Bammy’s civilian police force on drones because dismantling the U.S. military is taking too long.
  
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- Kate 143
  Posted on February 11, 2013 at 7:51am
  Medina County is full of the conservative exiles of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), so this one is confusing to me. Guess I’ll contact the Sheriff, though I’m sure I’ll get the same response as the one I got to my letter to him on gun control (that would be NO response). Ohio is getting real old real fast. It is full of corruption, union thugs, low information voters, and a spineless “conservative,” governor. We had huge voter fraud in this state and no one is doing a thing about it. Tennessee is looking better and better.
  
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honor007
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:01pm
Scratching my head wondering why Community Colleges are requesting drones; especially ones not 15 miles from me?? Sinclaiir Community College is not very big? Oh, the questions.

Tired of Ohio.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:11pm
  I don’t know- But obama was out there pushing community colleges and how everyone has a right to college? Now community colleges want drones.
  Maybe it’s part of “THE YOUTH CIVIL DEFENSE FORCE- BETTER FUNDED THAN THE MILITARY”?
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:17pm
  My Ohio State and US Congressmen will be getting email from me asking that very question, how about you?
  
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- honor007
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:48pm
  absolutely!!! as well as my local officials!!!! I am 15 miles from Sinclair Community College. This ticks me off a great deal.
  
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- Shrugged
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 8:44pm
  The strongest group of Obama supporters is in the community college. Free money for doin nothin.
  
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- honor007
  Posted on February 10, 2013 at 1:53pm
  i cannot understand how kids are getting PAID welfare checks, food stamps and daycare benefits all in the name of a college degree?? Some even have their heat and internet and phones. I never thought we’d be here. And YES, Obama was at this College during the Campaigns.
  
  I cannot even begin to describe the attitudes of these young people. No work ethic, no personal responsibility, no drive. Everyone of them think they are smartest person on the planet and think they do not have to “pay their dues” in order to be really successful all the while being dumb as a box of rocks and if you took their I-phone away, they could not function.
  
  I’m gonna get down to why they want drone authorization over here. I want to know and I am not gonna stop until I find out! Rep Turner better be providing some answers!
  
  Living in Ohio is not the best place to be right now. Too much progressive crap going on here. Upside, I own property. Downside, I own property HERE Those 14 property tax bills are making me really salty. #endrant
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:59pm
If these drones become athreat to evryday citizens, just remeber they have to be on the ground at one time for maint and non use. thats the time to delete these air craft if it becomes necessary. Or the operators, or the suppliers, or the backers. So we have a lot of ways to stop this radiacal Communist acts if we have to. Just takes some American Balls

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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:19pm
  That’s right SAFFSGT, take them out before they can deploy by whatever means necessary.
  
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iamnotu
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:58pm
I can’t wait! Should make very fun target practice with my high capacity AR15. It will be like high altitude duck hunting!

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- iamnotu
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:10pm
  Or we can fight fire with fire!
  
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MDECKER
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:53pm
I want one!

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- barber2
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 6:42pm
  Only if you voted for Obama….
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:47pm
It’s a government program what could possibly go wrong? The progs in government will use their eye in the sky to ‘keep us safe’ don’t ya know? These drones are every statists wet dream and before you know it they’ll be racking up kills. I recommend a drone free zone over the U.S.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:55pm
  It’s the United States Penitentiary.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:01pm
  But, but…drones are more humane way to kill people. obama won’t have to worry about asking military cadre to fire on american citizens.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:05pm
  Put the Postal Service in charge . They have dealt with sending stuff for years..
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:55am
  That is a good idea. Put the Postal service in charge of the drones. Soon not one drone will be able to get off the ground and if it did it would just crash into another post office.
  
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RLTW
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:46pm
Now if every one of those dots was between Monterey TX and San Diego, fully armed protecting our boarder I’d have less of issue.

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All Pro
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:46pm
Does anyone know how to build a detector? If it’s within five thousand feet I can bring it down.

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- Protoham
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:48pm
  These things fly at 20,000 feet (about 4 miles straight up). It will see you long before you see it.
  
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FISH_BONE
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:45pm
Believe me, the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office (Idaho) isn’t competent enough to handle a potato gun. A drone is out of the question.

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Eastinfection
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:42pm
We are the Borg.
Lower your shields and surrender your ships.
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
Your culture will adapt to service us.
Resistance is futile.

We are the Borg.
Lower your shields and surrender your ships.
We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
Your culture will adapt to service us.
Resistance is futile.

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- Sicialian Eyeball
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:23pm
  0bammy. Is that you?
  
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booger71
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:41pm
Why do Universities need drones?

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:48pm
  I don’t know since they churn out thousands of mindless drones every year.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:03pm
  PROG: Priceless comment !
  
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- Saff SGT
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:08pm
  iniversities are left Wing and most all voted for Communist obama
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:30pm
  to practice hacking, programming, engineering and many other things like that.
  
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- chemistatheart
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 12:11pm
  Folks here are assuming that the purpose of drones is for use by the government to attack citizens. My son is planning to attend Liberty University (a Christian, conservative university) to study unmanned aerial systems, and the purpose is NOT for attack of US citizens. Some graduates of Liberty’s program have already been hired to help in Afghanistan, but my son wants to be a commercial UAS pilot (he is already a private pilot) because it is the wave of the future—not for attacks, but for things such as land survey, possibly transport of cargo, and other commercial uses, as air space opens up in the US for UAS.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:37pm
Big Brother continues to grow out of control, and how long until these drones are armed to the teeth?

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- Shasta
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:47pm
  Are you sure they are not armed now?
  
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- LadyLibertykicksASS
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Soon…..very soon !!!!! Very Scary…. !!!!!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:04pm
  SNOW: Big Brother Obama promised he would ” change” America….so quickly and so drastically…
  
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- pdw
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:17pm
  It depends on the drone, some are very well armed and very able to kill what it sees. Others are visual observers and recorders. I expect all have GPS systems for easy locating.
  
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