Texas Bill Could Restrict Photography from RC Aircraft

Patrick Egan Slow Stick

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle… This remote-controlled “Slow Stick”, equipped with a point-and-shoot digital camera, cost drone hobbyist and advocate Patrick Egan about $300, camera included. The airplane cost him $29 several years ago; now the same kit costs $39. Photo Courtesy of Patrick Egan

A bill sponsored by a Dallas legislator could make it a crime to take photos of private land using a remote-controlled drone.

Read the article by Rebecca Boyle in POPSCI
Even Hobby Drones Could Be Made Illegal In Texas

Rich Hanson
AMA Government and Regulatory Affairs

One comment

  1. Does the AMA provide any oversight and representation to the States as it does the Federal Government? Perhaps the weighing in of a national organization could help the State governments keep an opener mind about hobby video rc models?

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