Last week we showed you video of a DIY, pistol-shooting quadcopter firing off a few test rounds in the woods. Now federal agents are investigating the 18-year-old Connecticut kid who reportedly built the thing.

Police found that the video was uploaded by one Austin Haughwout, Connecticut local news station WFSB reports. Haughwout has previously been involved in a drone-related altercation when he was attacked by a woman who was apparently not a fan his (non-gun-related)quadcopter antics. On Friday, Haughwout's father said that his son was the creator of the pistol-firing drone, having built it with one of his professors from Central Connecticut State University as part of a project.

The project is not only just terrifying has a harbinger of a future where drones might tote guns around, but also in a more immediate sense. It's easy to imagine how the drone might pitch strangely and misfire a bullet in an unsafe direction, perhaps at one of its operators. Or that the drone might careen off beyond reach, leaving a live firearm just waiting to be found.

Federal investigators are involved because, according to the police, there are no local or state laws that expressly prohibit this sort of thing. Haughwout's father says that his son did research in order to make sure he wasn't breaking any laws. That is, laws other than the natural law of "maybe don't put a pistol on a drone because that could probably go pretty wrong pretty fast."

Source: WFSB via The Gothamist

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