YouTube Video Shows Drone With A Gun Being Fired In CT

A YouTube video has surfaced showing a quadcopter equipped with a firearm popping off several rounds into a wooded area in Clinton, CT. The video has received over 2 million views.

Wired.co.uk relays a report from CNN that indicates the video was uploaded by Austin Haughwout, 18, as part of a class project. It is described as a "homemade multirotor with a semiautomatic handgun mounted on it."

The highlighted area in the frame captured from the YouTube video shows the muzzle flash from the handgun as it fires.

While local police said that they knew of the aircraft, Haughwout has not been questioned, arrested or charged ... but they say they are investigating the situation.  Clinton, CT police chief Todd Lawrie said that it "appears to be a case of technology surpassing current legislation," and they are working to determine if any laws have been broken. "It would seem to the average person there should be something prohibiting a person from attaching a weapon to a drone. At this point, we can't find anything that's been violated," Lawrie told CNN.

Haughwout's father told television station WFSB that one of his son's professors at Central Connecticut State University helped him build the aircraft, which was flown on private land.

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