The Federal aviation administration has approved Amazon to begin trials of their drone delivery system. The flying of drones for commercial use is currently illegal in the United States but the FAA is planning on changing that law and adding regulations soon.

The FAA has given the online shopping company Amazon permission to test flight their drone delivery system as long as the drones stay under 400 feet and must be visible to the pilot.

Amazon originally wanted to start trials in July of last years but was denied. This led to a statement from Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global public policy, to the FAA stating, “Without approval of our testing in the United States, we will be forced to continue expanding our Prime Air R&D footprint abroad.”

There is some push-back to the drone programs; one man in Colorado was quoted as saying that any drone that flew over his property would be shot down. The man, who spent 14 years in the Army as a Psychological Warfare officer, was quoted by Brian Resnick as saying that he was only trying to “illuminate an imminent threat that is on the horizon.”

What this man is trying to say is that technology is advancing fast, and there needs to be laws created to keep up with them.  As of now, what drone activities on someone’s property can accurately be regarded as “trespassing?”

Other shipping companies such as UPS and Google are also planning to start testing a drone delivery system in the near future.