The US Federal Aviation Administration  is investigating a YouTube video showing a handgun being held and fired by a drone.

The video was posted to YouTube and shows the drone flying as the gun fires several shots in a wooded area in in Clinton, Connecticut.

Police officials said the video was posted by Austin Haughwout, 18, a mechanical engineering student at Central Connecticut State University.

Despite the obvious dangers posed by the armed drone, it breaks no Connecticut laws, according to Haughwout's father.

 

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