Colorado Town Mulls Licensing Bounty Hunters to Shoot Down Drones

Not quite fish in a barrel

The tiny town of Deer Trail, Colo. — barely more than a wide spot on Interstate 70 about 55 miles east of Denver, population 546 — is considering an ordinance that would authorize licensed bounty hunters to shoot down unmanned aircraft violating its "sovereign airspace."

A six-page petition circulated by a resident says that the threat of surveillance from drones — regardless of who is piloting them — is a threat to "traditional American ideas of Liberty and Freedom" enjoyed by Deer Trail's "ranchers, farmers, cowboys and Indians, as well as contemporary citizens."

h/t Hugh Akston