Should California gun owners be forced to buy liability insurance? A new bill says yes

California could become the first state in the country to require gun owners to be insured against the negligent or accidental use of their firearms under legislation introduced Thursday.

“Guns kill more people than cars,” Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) said in a statement. “Yet gun owners are not required to carry liability insurance like car owners must. Why should taxpayers, survivors, families, employers, and communities bear the $280 billion annual cost of gun violence? It’s time for gun owners to shoulder their fair share.”

Skinner introduced legislation Thursday morning as an amendment to SB-505, an unrelated bill which will be gutted. The announcement follows a string of gun violence measures that the Legislature has treated with special urgency last month’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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