Yeah, if only there were an example of insuring and licensing for some other kind of common deadly consumer product.

I agree. Certainly while in public (e.g. public roads).

That said, I want to say that got proposed in the 90s and somehow the NRA not only defeated it at the federal level, but got congress to ban states from doing it. I could have just imagined that tho.

EDIT: https://sclawreview.org/article/gun-insurance-mandates-and-the-second-amendment/ (summary: there's a couple of laws [one state; one local], that will probably get SCOTUS review eventually, but are on the books for now; it's questionable whether insurance will cut down gun violence.)

I'd expect guns to be at least as regulated as vehicles, but I guess vehicles don't have their own amendment.

Especially because this trash has no money to sue them.

That would just discriminate against poor people and people that live in high crime areas.

The only woman in the story is the victim, who was standing outside the vehicle as it pulled up and the gun blew through the door.

It's interesting to me that nothing is mentioned about the driver/gun owner, and it's written in passive voice as if the vehicle, dog, and gun all acted by themselves. But SOMEONE not only drove to the store with a loaded unsecured shotgun, they also had their unsecured dog with it in the backseat.

Fortunately it appears the door took the brunt and the woman wasn't killed. Maybe the gun and dog should have aimed at the driver's seat.

Good catch; I just assumed.

You just never know when Moose Lambs are going to helicopter onto the highway, ready to implement Shakira Law!!!

Negligent as fuck. This person should not own firearms.

Oh well. Guess there's literally nothing that anyone can do 🙄

Note that "highway" in US state law contexts is generally a legal term of art that more or less boils down to meaning "public road." They don't mean highway as in like specifically interstates with on and off ramps.

The intent is that you can bounce around dirt roads on your own farm or private property or possibly on game lands with your gun loaded dangling in your rear window, but not on public roads with other people on them.

I don't know enough to be sure, and i would imagine it would depends a lot of the year of manufacture and how well it had been maintained. It would probably still be illegal; guns really should be unloaded during transport.

But, even if it did fire, the toolbox is likely a bit more durable than the cab interior. It's meant to have potentially heavy, metal things banging around in there even when driving rough.