(Newswire.net — July 17, 2015) — As 3D printers have become available, garage production of lethal weaponry is to be expected. Drone technology has also become widely available, so it was just a matter of time until someone got the idea to produce a homemade drone that actually could kill.
According to the YouTube video that ‘razed a red flag,’ a teenager, allegedly from Connecticut, has developed the first homemade drone that can actually kill.
The video shows what appears to be a homemade drone with a gun attached to it. The trigger is attached to a remote activating mechanism which allows the drone pilot to fire a gun from his remote location. The video also shows that drone can compensate for recoil just fine, and quickly reset on position to fire again at the same target.
Signed as Hogwit, the author named his video posted on July 10th, the “Homemade multirotor with a semiautomatic handgun mounted on it.”
In total during the video, the 70-centimeter drone fires off four shots.
“It is a small-caliber gun, so the recoil seems correct,” according to Danny Vrekalic, owner of Drones Toronto, who said the video appears authentic. “Aiming would be horrible due to the lack of stable platform or ability to aim it properly,” Vrekalic added.
Although the origin of the author, and the location the video was recorded are not known, according to some YouTubers, it is a work of a The Connecticut teenager, was accused last year of taking photos of a woman on the beach, with his homemade drone.
According to CBS, drone hobbyists are on a collision course with regulators. Proposed Federal Aviation Administration guidelines require hobbyists not to be careless or reckless with their unmanned aircraft, including endangering people or other aircraft.
As soon as they appeared, the FAA launched a set of laws on civil drones, among which is that mounting a weapon on drone is illegal. However, some voices have been heard calling on to a Second amendment, the right to defend ones property and life using firearms.
According to Vrekalic, drones are no different from the remote operated helicopters or airplanes that hobbyists have use for decades, just because they have a multiple rotors. Aeronautical experts however say that drones are significantly different because their rotors provide them with hovering stability in the air, which can compensate a gunshot.
Meanwhile the video of a drone firing a gun went viral, giving the ideas to people all over the world, on what they could do with their drone.