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1. The clip on camera lenses do work very well. I bought my daughter some for her birthday last year.
   When possible I use photographs to compliment or even substitute range cards. It allows for quicker mental processing under stress for those without backgrounds.

2. What happened to part 4…..did i miss somethin?

   1. It was posted yesterday – here’s the link: https://survivalblog.com/tactical-technology-teotwawki-part-4-j-m/

      1. Thank you.
         I thought i was losing my mind….KEK

3. Hey JM, good article to print. It’ll be even better when I can get some of these electronics, especially in the home security/surveillance area.

   Two questions. First, what is the law about shooting down a drone over your house (assuming you live in the boonies with 40 acres) if it’s one of the under 250 grams unregistered ones?

   Second, I’m not having much luck googling but I need an inexpensive remote control car like the RC amphibious car that you linked, but I need one with a camera so I can look under the house to see if the termites are building ladders yet and wondering if the raccoons have made a home in that cinder block section under the bathroom. Any links you can provide?

   Also from Part 1, I’m interested in building some of the alternate energy chargers you mentioned, jury rigging my own versions of course. Until you mentioned cell phone plug-in chargers for cars, I hadn’t realized they had a transformer built in. (Note to self: don’t assume too much.) I always thought they were charged using 12 volts. Your article made me think…wait, that can’t be possible.

   The biggest thing your Part 1 did for me was to remind me I really need to get on the ball when it comes to rechargeable batteries.

   Thanks for the article, looking forward to Part 6.

   1. I have to admit I don’t know what the law says about shooting a drone over your property but I suspect that if you do it that you will go to jail or at least face some kind of punishment. You don’t just shoot at things you don’t like and destroying private property is asking for trouble.

4. St. Funogas – If you search for ‘rc car camera’ or ‘remote control car with camera’ there are a bunch that show up. Amazon has a couple for around $50-$75, and places like AliExpress has dozens. It all depends on how much you want to spend and how long you’re wiling to wait to get it. One of my favorites for crawling around outside is the old Brookstone Rover tank, but the only place you can get those these days is used on eBay, and the app for it only supports Android OS versions prior to 9.0. You can find something similar on AliExpress.

5. The SCOTUS has determined that you own the airspace over your property to 83 feet should you chose to defend it. Do your own DD here but it was decided involving a farmer and his chickens that stopped laying, some dying in their futile attempt to flee, planes that dropped to 83 feet over his property in their landing approach. US vs
   Causby 1946 https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/328/256/

   Drones in particular make this all more complicated as discussed in the link below. The 83-500 feet range is FAA regulated for drones even though below the 500ft navigable airspace limit for regular flights. There are attempts to get drones over private property (deliveries, etc) below 83 feet but those should be contestable at least for now. Of course you need to do your own DD and see what state and local regs there may be as well.

   https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/when-a-drone-flies-over-my-house-is-it-trespassing.html

6. Please remember that shooting into the air is a very likely violation of Rule 4–if you mise, that round could come down anywhere.

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