The new powers will only apply to military sites, but could be extended to civilian locations such as airports
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In theory I agree, I don’t know how they will set the rules of engagement that each soldier has to know and carry cards with there notebook so no excuses but wording was controversial as what was threat to life that you can fire.
Anyway there is a reason for ranges as this is controlled firing, normally a large sandy hill in the background and firing ground level.
A stray 5.56 round can hit someone miles away, I remember a case where a child in a school playground got hit in the head with a .22 round and he was critical but survived blind in one eye, police checked all weapon owners in the area, eventually found a 70 year old that was shooting at a bird.
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So do I. 
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.. if they give me a call so I can go and watch.
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Sort of agree, but it won’t be a munition it’ll be one of the interference weapons or net style weapons. They’ll not use a gun in the conventional sense. It would be too dangerous a miss would potentially be lethal. As an ex sniper hitting a randomly moving target at 100m the size of drone wouldn’t be impossible but impractical
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It’s the sensational journalism of the BBC that’s makes folk think it will be..
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Shotguns 
. Like clay pigeon shooting. “PULL…….”
I know when security rushed to stop me flying close to RNAS Yeovilton during the GADC treasure hunt.
This was a live runway with aircraft taking off etc.
I had tower clearance as long as I didn’t fly over the air base. I was around 20 feet from the boundary!
The problem was nobody had told security.
They were fine about it.
If this rule was in place, would they shoot first before asking the tower?
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Just had a read and as expected the hyperbole from the ill informed and just down right ignorant fills the comments section 
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Facebook has broken ;o)
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For Pete’s sake, it’s as bad as Facebook on the BBC comments.
So, who pays compensation when a drone is shot down and it’s crash causes injury or death to an innocent member of the public outside the restricted area (and it will; the nature of crashing meansvthat there is no control over where it comes down!). Didn’t I read somewhere that the reason prison delivery drones are not taken out in this way was because of this exact problem?
A shot-down drone, even a Mini, crashing on to a car on a busy motorway, has the potential to cause a major pile-up and miltiple casualties…
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No different than a bird striking a windscreen. And that’s more probable than a drone hitting a vehicle on a motorway.
Yes, but nobody’s legally responsible for the bird being there!
You’re getting sucked into the BBC sensational journalism headline… I’d take a chill pill because the likelihood of a drone being taken out and striking a car on a motorway is about as much of a chance as the Pope attending a July 12th bonfire!
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No chance of that as it’s the 11th the 12th is the marches
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Where you been hiding lol
This was this year
Last year’s
Cannot wait to see what’s next year
They getting bigger every year 
