So Obama is killing the hobby industry...

[tamiyadan]

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[RC104ever]

Wow, I wonder if this will impact Canada as well? Where do they draw the line? I mean ANYTHING that is compressed can be considered an explosive (hair spray for example). Even regular batteries could theoretically be exploded if they get too hot - so what do you do?

[EvolutionRevolution]

And some days ago some nutcase was arrested because he wanted to fly a model airplane packed with explosives into the Capitol and the Pentagon.

What is disturbing about that case is that from the news you get the really strong vibe that the guy was just a deranged individual who posted about his fantasies online and got set up by the FBI, who also provided all of the material . Some people have linked this to the US air force wanting to prevent ordinary people from building drone-like model airplanes by effectively making anyone interested in RC airplanes a suspect, prior to banning RC airplanes.

Ironies in action:
- The "country of the free" is getting more restrictive by the day in the name of protecting people against terrorism. Bin Laden must be cackling in his watery grave.
- A truck packed with homemade fertilizer explosives or explosives made from legal firearms ammunition under a highway interchange or a couple of gunmen armed with semi-automatics and currently legal heavy weapons acting out a street guerilla are much more dangerous than all of the crazy fringe plots imagined by deranged loners. Yet those are conveniently ignored.
- Although the military can develop a lot of things themselves they still depend on what they learned as civilians. Progressively banning all civilian use of technology that might have a military application will ultimately hit back at the military...because soldiers ain't grown in vats afterall.