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With a manual trigger, max rate of fire is around 7 rounds per second, so 420 per minute. The guys I used to play with have been experimenting and re-designing for awhile now. Last I heard there was an Autococker variant that had an electronically controlled trigger (they put a 9v battery and circuit board in the grip). It can be set for standard semi-auto, 3 shot bursts, or full auto. In my experience, full auto is useless for paintball. Your opponent just waits for you to run out of balls and then shoots you.If I were to guess, I would say that sounds about like 450 rounds per min, rate of fire, based on my experience with real machine guns! That would certainly take down a drone with in the effective range!
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As to ownership of airspace, there's this:
"The dividing line between the portion of the airspace in the public domain and the portion protected as an incident of land ownership against invasions by aircraft, is the line delineated by the Federal Aviation Administration as the minimum safe altitude of flight[ix].
The common law stance on the relative rights of the landowner and the aviator to the use of air space above the surface of the earth is that an unprivileged intrusion in the space above the surface of the earth, at whatever height above the surface, is a trespass[x].
An entry above the surface of the earth, in the air space in the possession of another, by a person who is traveling in an aircraft, is privileged if the flight is conducted[xi]:
- for the purpose of travel through the air space or for any other legitimate purpose,
- in a reasonable manner,
- at such a height as not to interfere unreasonably with the possessor's enjoyment of the surface of the earth and the air space above it, and
- in conformity with such regulations of state and federal aeronautical authorities as are in force in a particular state.
Flight by aircraft in the airspace above the land of another is a trespass, only if[xiv]:
- entry into the immediate reaches of the airspace next to the land is involved, and
- entry interferes substantially with the owner's actual use and enjoyment of his land."
So it would appear that if a drone operator interferes with your enjoyment or use of your property by invading the airspace directly above it, that is trespassing and you may be entitled to compensation or an injunction against further trespass.