Off topic from your point, but out here in the sticks (and I'm pretty sure where the ancient origins of the term lie...) the truck gun is what you keep jammed behind the passenger seat or hanging in the back window for when you pull into the driveway to see a coyote trying to dig into the chicken coop. I don't think it ever clicked for me that people were talking about it as a self-defense against humans tool until I read your post here. I carry a handgun in the vehicle when I'm going somewhere for self-defensee, but when I'm on my land I throw a .22 in the passenger seat as the "truck gun". Or a shotgun if it's hunting season.
If you're not parking on public roads or in parking lots I think it's fine. I am mostly speaking of the people in suburban and urban areas even that keep an extra gun in the car for self defense. And usually a handgun.
Off topic from your point, but out here in the sticks (and I'm pretty sure where the ancient origins of the term lie...) the truck gun is what you keep jammed behind the passenger seat or hanging in the back window for when you pull into the driveway to see a coyote trying to dig into the chicken coop. I don't think it ever clicked for me that people were talking about it as a self-defense against humans tool until I read your post here. I carry a handgun in the vehicle when I'm going somewhere for self-defensee, but when I'm on my land I throw a .22 in the passenger seat as the "truck gun". Or a shotgun if it's hunting season.
If you're not parking on public roads or in parking lots I think it's fine. I am mostly speaking of the people in suburban and urban areas even that keep an extra gun in the car for self defense. And usually a handgun.
I understand. I guess that was my long-winded way of saying that I didn't know anyone actually did that ot used the term "truck gun" to describe it.
Maybe we need a new term. Sedan gat?