"Drones should be handled the same way as weapons!" Strict rules for law abiding citizens while the criminals are totally unencumbered by the law?

You know it's easy to get illegal guns right?

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mrob 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Guns don't scale like drones. No matter how many guns you own, you can only shoot two at a time, and only one if you care about aim.

Building an autonomous drone swarm capable of nuclear-weapon-tier kill count is far easier than building a nuclear weapon. We already know how dangerous military drones are, and those are still mostly bottlenecked by relying on human-powered target identification. Building drones to indiscriminately kill unarmored civilians is an easier task.

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w4der an hour ago | parent | next [-]

But the tooling required for guns and rifling in particular is pretty hard to come by, whereas the tooling required to assemble a DIY drone is basically indistinguishable from R/C hobby equipment. You can (try) to regulate where/who/how/when can fly a drone, but regulating drone building seems almost impossible to me.

	▲	trollbridge 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The tooling for guns and rifles is not hard to come by. The most difficult part of making firearms from scratch is the primer in the ammunition.

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newsclues 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You can setup a machine gun on a Remote Weapon Station and control it via the internet. You could have agents as machine gunners. Same with rocket launchers.

We are literally seeing the large scale use of robotic weapons platforms AT SCALE.

Machine guns create a storm of ballistic objects, and have been doing so for over 100 years. Large scale murder isn't new. We just have systems that have cameras that make it easy to put the footage online now.

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embedding-shape 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> You know it's easy to get illegal guns right?

Where though? It's certainly easier in some parts of the worlds than others, and surely something in the environment makes this easier/harder, I wonder if we could identify what exactly?

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newsclues 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

In your basement with simple tools. 3D printers made it a lot easier and better. You can make a pipegun with very little skill.

Ammunition is a bit harder, but again, there is criminal markets that fill the needs.

	▲	embedding-shape 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You make the action and the barrel in PLA or ABS I suppose? Sounds reliable :) > but again, there is criminal markets that fill the needs. Again, those are bigger in some places in the world, and almost non-existing in most parts of the world, even though it's possible to obtain in the right circles. If we stop assuming the US's "everyone should have a gun at home" mentality is how it goes everywhere, it's still not "easy to get illegal guns" in most parts of the world.