Colorado Town Rejects Plan to Let Residents Shoot Drones
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Drones won’t join coyotes as prey on the dun-colored prairie after voters in Deer Trail, Colorado, population 563, turned down a proposal for the town to issue hunting licenses for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Phillip Steel, a 49-year-old welding inspector, had written the proposed law as a symbolic protest after hearing a news report that the federal government is drafting a plan to integrate drones into civilian airspace, he said. The measure would have set a bounty of as much as $100 for a drone with U.S. government markings.