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"consumers in the US are a bit too fast and loose "entitled" when it comes to being able to play with big machines."

In that case I think you'd find our rather loose maritime laws to be particularly triggering. Our gun regulations are the same way. In that way its semi-consistent, smart people aren't going to get in trouble no matter what, dumb people are going to do dumb things no matter what regardless of what laws are written, so why bother.

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Fair enough, and I think you're accurate regarding the correlatives with firearms to some extent. I think it's worth keeping in mind these FAA regulations aren't for hobbyist type people - which most gun owners would likely be classified as in the US, even with 'sport rifles' like the AR or AK type - so in this discussion it'd be more like regulating Armored Car drivers or Security Guards that are allowed to carry weapons as part of their job. No pass, no gun on the job. No pass, no commercial UAV license.

> I think it's worth keeping in mind these FAA regulations aren't for hobbyist type people

These regulations regulate both hobbyist and commercial usage. Where did you see that the rules are for commercial use only?

"The new rules for non-hobbyist small unmanned aircraft (UAS) operations"

https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=2...

"Part 107 does not apply to model aircraft that satisfy all of the criteria specified in section 336 of Public Law 112-95."

http://www.faa.gov/uas/media/RIN_2120-AJ60_Clean_Signed.pdf

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