Colorado Town Declaring ‘Open Season’ on Drones

<img src="http://www.guns.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/resized_99265-us_news_dro... align="right" width="200">The small Colorado town of Deer Trail, population 546, is seeking to pass a local ordinance that would legalize the sport of drone-hunting. The law would create a licensing system that would certify drone hunters and allow them to collect bounties on drones.

Currently the law’s backers are circulating the proposed ordinance which will be considered at Deer Trail’s next town council meeting on August 6.

“Throughout its history, the Town of Deer Trail has maintained its independence from all other political entities,” reads the ordinance. “Therefore, the Town of Deer Trail declares its supremacy over its territorial boundaries and, with respect to this ordinance, the supremacy and sovereignty of its airspace and its citizen’s right to defend the airspace of the town, their homes, businesses and related properties from unwanted incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles.”
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The provision outlines clear bounties on drones and drone parts. Wings or wreckage nets hunters $25 while a mostly-intact drone is worth $100. Drones and parts would be considered town property.

“We do not want drones in town,” said Deer Trail resident Phillip Steel, who drafted the law. “They fly in town, they get shot down.”

“The Town of Deer Trail shall issue a reward of $100 to any shooter who presents a valid hunting license and the following identifiable parts of an unmanned aerial vehicle whose markings and configuration are consistent with those used on any similar craft known to be owned or operated by the United States federal government,” says the ordinance.

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