the government is shutdown right now. And when it opens again, there will be so many things deferred that will need attending to, the idea that this incompetent reactionary Congress would actually attend to a matter of Chinese drones seems laughable. Yeah, that's bad government but that's where we are
since this whole saga started about 18 months ago there has been a slow-moving inevitability to the momentum. Some of us could see where it was likely headed but when we said what we were seeing we were told we were over-reacting and that the sky was definitely not falling....but it fell
here we are...about 6 weeks away from an actual ban with the very real possibility it will include some form of retroactive ban. I did write to my congressman, 2 or 3 times. I did believe the notion that it wasn't too late and that there were paths to avoid what has transpired. I don't believe any of it anymore. It's too late, IMO.
I'm really glad right now that I didn't spend $4000-5000 on a Mavic 4. That would be one expensive brick