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Are you familiar with modern, made for adult pellet guns? They come in several calibers, .177 & .22 being the most popular. Many people hunt game with them. My Diana RWS 34 .177 specs at 1000fps. and they have faster models (1650fps). A 9mm pistol round travels 1247fps. It's not your old Red Ryder."A high velocity rifle that used .177 caliber pellet ammunition." LOL
"A high velocity rifle that used .177 caliber pellet ammunition." LOL
Yes I am, I have a few myself. Its likely the reporter who wrote the story had no idea though and was trying to make it more than it was. In the end the guys drone was shot down by a pellet gun.It's about time! I am still waiting to see (anywhere in the USA) a federal charge for shooting at an aircraft.
Are you familiar with modern, made for adult pellet guns? They come in several calibers, .177 & .22 being the most popular. Many people hunt game with them. My Diana RWS 34 .177 specs at 1000fps. and they have faster models (1650fps). A 9mm pistol round travels 1247fps. It's not your old Red Ryder.
I read your post and thought maybe you were thinking 'no way a pellet gun would be powerful enough'.Yes I am, I have a few myself. Its likely the reporter who wrote the story had no idea though and was trying to make it more than it was. In the end the guys drone was shot down by a pellet gun.
Read the link in the first post. He was in a recreational area when he shot down the drone.To hit it with a pellet gun at range means the thing was probably on his property. I am guessing nothing happens to this guy.
Mine is about 900 FPS and to knock a drone out, you have to be super lucky.
UPDATE- the arraignment/indictment hearing was today...
Looks like they are moving forward with the felony charge; a pretrial conference appears to have been subsequently scheduled for the day after Xmas.
This is from the (publicly-available online) court schedule for Jackson County (Oregon) Circuit Court...the defendant is the person named in the news articles (and news release from the Jackson Co. Sheriff's Dept.) as the shooter.