A Colorado town that will decide next month whether or not it will issue permits to shoot down drones from the sky has been flooded by hundreds of applications as far away as the United Kingdom.
Deer Town, Colo. Clerk Kim Oldfield said the town has gotten more then 985 applications for $25 hunting permits that would allow them to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Reuters. She said the applications came from all over the country and overseas, including the U.K. and Canada.
Oldfield told Reuters she was setting aside the application checks until the town’s 380 registered voters decide on the issue next month, and plans to return the payments should the proposal be rejected.
The resident who proposed the ordinance, Army veteran Phillip Steel, told Reuters that he’s already sold about 150 mock drone-hunting licenses online. He vowed to continue selling the permits if his proposal doesn’t pass the ballot in protest of what he calls “a surveillance society.”
The Federal Aviation Association warned soon after the Deer Trail ordiance was proposed that “shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane.”
