Since it should be relatively straightforward to weaponize these drones, is this all leading to a ban on civilian drones in the foreseeable future?
It's far easier to "weaponize" your car and park it by a target. You'll do far more damage and be much less conspicuous than a drone operator who needs to maintain a line of sight to the drone. Yet cars are not banned.
Anything lightweight you would weaponize a drone with is already a monitored substance. The privacy and nuisance concerns associated with drones are far more significant than the threat of weaponized drones, which is really quite ludicrous and impractical.
So there is already an outright ban at night, and significant limits in the day.
This + the whitehouse drone incident = impending crackdown on drones...