alt Hacker News> Can you walk down the street to buy some artillery munitions?
No, but you can walk down the street and buy all the components.
To buy the shells, there’s a $200 tax (each!) and a form you have to fill out.
> Can you walk down the street to buy some artillery munitions?
No, but you can walk down the street and buy all the components.
To buy the shells, there’s a $200 tax (each!) and a form you have to fill out.
Not really, not for the air warfare context of drones.
SAM can't be bought for any tax and they come with lifetime in jail if you have them, even just for peaceful purposes.[]
Giving up air military supremacy isn't something the USA is going to yield to its citizens. The tax is reflective of the fact that machineguns and destructive devices can't be banned as they are "arms" that can merely be taxed, but the US doesn't considered air warfare weapons generally to be bearable arms.
As drones become a dominating form of air superiority I would expect they start to become more like SAMs -- not bearable arms but rather arms that merely having in your arms mean you go in a cage forever even if you have an NFA stamp affixed.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332g