For Mr Musk’s sake I hope his neighbor mentioned in the article here has good opsec and isn’t able to be found via something like a simple Google search and the name in the town from the article!

  • Texas is well fucked, but pretty sure discharging a firearm in city limits is something they get after people for there. further, firing upon an aerial vehicle while aloft is also a federal offense even if it is over private property, because the exclusive use of private property does not extend above a certain range into the air.

    apparently it’s not just a fine, either, it’s multiple years in prison (Title 18 US Code 32 of the 1984 Aircraft Sabotage Act).

    and yeah, he’s a billionaire, but one couldn’t be sure it wouldn’t be recording directly to some other device and be used in evidence, making it open and shut in whoever pulled the trigger.

    a lot of the rules around drones are hilarious and crazy. like yeah, you can get in trouble for spying on someone with a drone, but if they try to jam or knock the drone out of the air above a certain height, they are fucked.