Drones

This report from the burbs:

• Drones are fast becoming the must-have tool in policing. Now, the next generation is rising up in the Chicago area with drones that answer 911 calls on their own and an experimental drone system designed to stop would-be mass shooters, [...].

  In suburban Oak Brook, the police department currently uses drones that are deployed and directed by humans. Oak Brook Police Chief Brian Strockis said the drones have been very effective especially when they are looking for crime suspects

But now they want to try something different:

• In north suburban Libertyville, several former Navy Seals and a business entrepreneur are working on the next aerial technological evolution. It's an indoor drone designed to detect and potentially stop a mass shooting on its own, before police arrive on the scene.

  [...] Equipping drones with firearms is illegal in the United States, so the system is designed to track the threat and then neutralize the weapon instead of the shooter, making it safer for bystanders.

  [...] The inventors do not want to reveal the trade secrets but explained that the drone can also lock in on a weapon and then strike the side of it, dispensing an adhesive substance that essentially jams the firearm's inner-workings. "It disrupts the bulk carrier group of AR style rifles, semi-automatic pistols, pump action, semi-automatic shotguns and those are 95% of the weapons utilized in an active shooter situation," Ross said.

Anyone know what a "bulk carrier group" is? Anyone want to tell the press that they're idiots again?

And does anyone want to tell them that former supernintendo David Brown did something similar to this in Texas where they rigged a robot to explode, killing a gunman who had murdered five police officers? And that the Ukraine has been using "suicide drones" for a couple years now? 

This isn't exactly a new idea. The only thing new is making it mostly useless.