This Colorado town won't let you hunt drones

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This Colorado town won't let you hunt drones
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Drone hunting isn't going to be one Colorado town's new favorite past time. Deer Trail, a tiny city an hour east of Denver, was mulling the idea of letting people shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles that zipped into their skies, but the drone-hunting proposal was rejected yesterday.

Nearly 73 percent of residents voted against a proposal that would have allowed citizens to obtain city-issue permits to hunt drones. The idea was drafted by Phillip Steel as a "symbolic protest against a surveillance society" and it gained popularity as a way to attract tourism and generate revenue for the small 550-person town.

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Jordan Valinsky is the lead writer for Speed Reads. Before joining The Week, he wrote for New York Observer's tech blog, Betabeat, and tracked the intersection between popular culture and the internet for The Daily Dot. He graduated with a degree in online journalism from Ohio University.