Sorry son. Cite a law or end it. Now go get a law degree if you want to be a wiseguy.
Not trying to be a wiseguy, just counter your wrong information sir.
If I get a law degree I can be a wiseguy? Is that what you are suggesting?
You are misleading and encouraging others who read this forum by saying there is no law against making a drone fall from the sky via any method, including gun fire.
I respectfully suggest that if you insist on continuing to offer legal counsel that it is lawful to (shoot) down a drone, that you come out of 'retirement,' and make yourself available once again as an active lawyer, and represent all whom you have counselled on here to take them down for simply legally flying over their property. Don't you agree you owe them all that? Please post your phone number so they can contact you for their legal defense.
You suggest "cite law:" Here are some I have seen elsewhere that may help you understand there ARE laws directly against this:
1) The FAA prohibits shooting down any aircraft. Ever.
Not to mention local laws regarding the discharging of firearms in certain places.
The FAA also considers UAVs aircraft.
Do the math.
2) I'm pretty certain discharging your firearm into the air is against the law in all 50 states. The act of firing up into the air is practically the poster child for these laws. You have no idea where the round will fall, and who it may hit. The FAA said a drone "hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air. Shooting at an unmanned aircraft could result in criminal or civil liability, just as would firing at a manned airplane."
3) it is 18 U.S. Code § 32 - 'Destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities'. The NTSB and the FAA consider personal drones are aircraft. (Huerta v Pirker, NTSB Docket CP-217). It is not the FAA who would press charges, it's the US Attorney.
4) (a)Whoever willfully—
(1) sets fire to, damages, destroys, disables, or wrecks any aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States or any civil aircraft used, operated, or employed in interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce;
(2) places or causes to be placed a destructive device or substance in, upon, or in proximity to, or otherwise makes or causes to be made unworkable or unusable or hazardous to work or use, any such aircraft, or any part or other materials used or intended to be used in connection with the operation of such aircraft, if such placing or causing to be placed or such making or causing to be made is likely to endanger the safety of any such aircraft;
(3) sets fire to, damages, destroys, or disables any air navigation facility, or interferes by force or violence with the operation of such facility, if such fire, damaging, destroying, disabling, or interfering is likely to endanger the safety of any such aircraft in flight;
(4) with the intent to damage, destroy, or disable any such aircraft, sets fire to, damages, destroys, or disables or places a destructive device or substance in, upon, or in proximity to, any appliance or structure, ramp, landing area, property, machine, or apparatus, or any facility or other material used, or intended to be used, in connection with the operation, maintenance, loading, unloading or storage of any such aircraft or any cargo carried or intended to be carried on any such aircraft;
(5) interferes with or disables, with intent to endanger the safety of any person or with a reckless disregard for the safety of human life, anyone engaged in the authorized operation of such aircraft or any air navigation facility aiding in the navigation of any such aircraft;
(6) performs an act of violence against or incapacitates any individual on any such aircraft, if such act of violence or incapacitation is likely to endanger the safety of such aircraft;
(7) communicates information, knowing the information to be false and under circumstances in which such information may reasonably be believed, thereby endangering the safety of any such aircraft in flight; or
(8) attempts or conspires to do anything prohibited under paragraphs (1) through (7) of this subsection;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years or both.
5) It is also worth considering that the "internet lawyer" is probably a greasy adolescent on his way from a porn site to a gaming site.
6) The idiot tee shirt thrower (53 year old Electrical Engineer) [who downed a drone] was arrested by the police and charged with a felony, and has bail set at $10,000!
This post began with an example of someone being criminally charged after downing a drone. Item 6) above is another example of criminal charges being filed for downing a drone - no firearm involved. It is becoming almost a weekly occurance that someone gets arrested and criminally charged for downing a drone. You suggest none of these are happening? You are advising folks on here it is OK to down a drone in the face of all these criminal charges happening? Why is that folks who down drones all over are being arrested on criminal charges then?
As a last thought for you, I suggest you and your children use your googing skills for a better reason than you have already suggested: Research WHAT exact laws are being used to criminally charge these people with downing drones. Then come back here and report to the forum WHAT exactly they may expect to be criminally charged with, for downing that drone that is legally flying over their property in FAA governed space that they do not own. I suggest that would be a much better and more BENEFICIAL use of your lawyer abilites that would be a very positive use of your time.