LuvMyTJ said:
Please don't promote this type of stuff. Unfortunately videos like this, fake or not, are going to cause heavy regulation to our hobby.
I almost feel this is a "head-in-the-sand" way of thinking. The hobby is going to be regulated, it is in the process of being regulated, there are(is) a court case (perhaps precedent setting) in the works, local, state and federal agencies have begun serious discussions of how to regulate model aircraft. These potential regulators are not unimaginative dolts, they watch the news of military drone strikes, they watch TV and see drones in fictionalized sci-fi episodic TV shows, they have children of their own who may fly, if not flying themselves. The conservative AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics) is working with the FAA and rules and regulations will result from that association; if not the final rules, a sturdy foundation upon which final regulations will be promulgated.
The future is now, it's already too late to worry about gun toting multi-rotor model aircraft videos on YouTube. Your aircraft will be licensed, you will be licensed, your hobby will be regulated and yet another government agency (or sub-agency of FAA) will be formed and responsible for administration of those license.
Should that gun toting quad video go viral....I think not, but then I didn't think the video of a GoPro falling from a plane and being found in a hog lot would go viral either....
