RE: AMA emails on Drones/Right to Fly
No people hunt with rifles that share cosmetic features to an assault rifle. An assault rifle can fire multi-fire/full auto where as the ones being used to hunt are semi auto only. Basically the same gun other than that, yet still not an assault rifle due to that one difference. Drones and models work and look the same to the uneducated and have many of the same features and in some cases are indistinguishable from each other with only one key difference, that is one is used commercially and one is used for recreation.
There is no one out to take our privileges to fly models. We are not being targeted directly, but there is a huge controversy over commercial and government use of drones and the general public couldn't care less if we lose the privilege to fly our "toys." Our only saving grace is there are a lot of level headed people trying their best to minimize the reactionary politics around the issue and keep our privileges intact for the most part. The biggest threat is that reactionary politics are powerful in that they promise results without any logic, just emotion, and we all know that with the general public emotion trumps logic any day.