I agree with the decision, but I would use something less dangerous than a firearm to take it down. The first thing I'd try would be water from a hose. Then maybe a pellet gun, or a slingshot with pebbles. Or even a Frisbee.

I suggest that 400 feet above terrain should not be the maximum height for drones, but the minimum (without the owner's permission). And maybe some limit on their camera resolution so that they can't identify individuals in their backyards, which after all are supposed to be private.

Careful what ammo is used, as people have been killed by bullets fired randomly into the air. Unfortunately, the terminal velocity of a pointed projectile is fast enough to kill, and even a 22 caliber can be lethal. Light birdshot should be less likely to cause serious damage on descent.

Maybe this creates a market for interceptor drones?

interesting. I will watch out for that. I suspect what SHOULD be the crime is what the results of the jamming were- like bringing down a passenger aircraft or something like that. I do think I would want to find a way to confiscate a drone that was used to spy on me.

I happened to live about 300 ft from a person whose wife claimed "domestic violence" of some sort (they are still together by the way), and the SWAT team came to imprison the man. He wouldnt come out, and they literally blew out the windows and doors in the house (very loud) in their attempts to get him. I had a parrot drone and flew it over the house to see what was going on, and the police went nuts and ordered me to take it down immediately or face charges of some sort. They dont want people watching them I suppose while they are doing a 'raid'.

They proceeded to destroy a lot of the house, took the guy into custody, left the wife to live there, and he rejoined her when he got out. Kind of disturbing scene overall. Police want ultimate power for sure.

CG,

Thanks for identifying yet another common grammatical error. One "lays" the pencil on the desk, then goes to lie down to rest.

$5Au prefers sending up fighter kites to entangle, capture, and re-program them.

"Another resident with a teen-aged daughter in the area said that a camera-equipped drone hovered nearby while she was laying out beside the pool earlier this summer"
I think it's lying out. Laying is transitive; it takes an object, like laying an egg or laying out pieces to be assembled.

I've never played with drones, but I think I would have gotten into them if I were younger. This is the very first application I would have tried.