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>What would you restrict, if you wanted to prevent any other actor from building drones? Batteries? Rotors? 3D printers? $17 Raspberry Pis?

Explosives and fuzing mechanisms, which are already regulated in many countries.

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you can cause damage to an electrical grid without any explosions. you can disrupt a highway by dropping spikes. etc

And yet terrorists and other bad actors have still been able to build bombs despite the regulations.

Explosives have to be manufactured, and most require precursors that are hard to come by. More broadly, perhaps the historic argument that we should care about, eg Somalia, because failed states can enable chaos that crosses borders becomes more true???

(*edit - I mean by hosting factories for illicit materials!)

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