Ahh.. Americans and their guns...

The most you'd ever have to worry about with us Canadians is maybe attaching a hockey stick to the helicopter..

The "cool" factor on this is pretty high, but the "responsible use" thing just goes out the window. It's a cool idea in concept, but just downright silly to do in real life. There's just too big of a margin of error with RC helicopters to be strapping weapons to them. I'd hate to see a radio glitch where the servo controlling the trigger decides to go haywire. Yeah.. real safe.

Also, if you look at the pictures, it's obvious that it wasn't designed from the ground up as a helicopter for military use. It's just a regular helicopter with an auto-shotgun strapped to it with what looks like bungee cables!

Not to mention that trying to target anything with that gun is probably impossible without actually being inside the birds cockpit. Some sort of video downlink or something would be nescesary for true "military" application where aiming were actually possible.

Because of the nature of the news post though, I can't see it having too big of a negative effect on RC hobbyists. It makes more mention to lab work and military application rather than hobby users. Most people probably wouldn't even make the connection.