Rich Hanson and the AMA conducted a multi-year fraud on the RC flying community with their mandatory membership scam.
The FAA came out publicly and refuted it after Hanson went public with the claim in his op-ed in The Hill. Until then, the FAA
had no reason to address it other than on a case-by-case basis when asked.

If someone wants to look it up, then-director of the FAA UAS office of Integration, Earl Lawrence, goes into the background of
it all in his remarks at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Basically, AMA is run by lying weasels who tried to
exploit the fact that Congress never defined the question of membership. That same group is still in charge.

Those who keep going with the AMA line are like broken coo coo clocks reporting the wrong time over and over again. Like I said,
why are we still talking about this? Look at the result. Wouldn't all that wasted time and energy spent on forced AMA membership
have been better spent on the drone question and a stategy for a realistic weight-based exemption for non-advanced model aircraft?
Drones from day one guaranteed that some form of regulation was inevitable.