OXFORD -- Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... something to regulate!
It's a story as old as the nation. Fear of misuse tracks technology like a bloodhound. Got to have some new rules!
State Rep. Ken Morgan, R-Morgantown, threw House Bill 347 into the hopper in January. Its short title was "Drone Prohibition Act" and its purpose was to ban taking pictures from any aircraft that did not have a pilot aboard.
"Why?" you might ask.
Who knows? "Privacy" was cited.
But Mississ
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