What to do if your car is submerged in water

> A third of 2018 model-year vehicles have laminated glass in their side windows, AAA says

I'd guess it's increased more now.

I don't advocate for off-body carry in general, but I'd expect it to be far more likely than you might think for there to be a handgun available to someone in a car.

... and yes, as the GP mentioned, firing it in that closed space would suck. It's going to take multiple rounds to weaken safety glass enough to get through it, and it's going to be loud. As a heuristic, I'd say you should assume that if you have to do that, you're trading your hearing for the rest of your life.

Firing a handgun inside a vehicle, even with both ear plugs and electronic muffs, is enough to make your ears ring.

The modern thinking on this is that you should carry it on your person at all times or leave it at home (e.g. if you're going to a place you can't carry it). Additionally, frequent "administrative handling" of your gun (like unholstering it in your car and re-holstering it when you get out) needlessly increases your chances of a negligent discharge, so moving it off of your body when you get in your car is also discouraged.

Of course this doesn't mean that everyone knows/thinks this way (and many don't), but from my discussions with other firearm advocates, this is the modern school of thought.

So—to answer your question—a Glock 19, and yes, as it's on me already ;-)

I also worked for ~6y in Iraq/Afghanistan but we never shot through glass in our own vehicles, did shoot rifles from open doors etc. on ranges but the times I was in trucks which were actually shooting "in anger" I was a passenger in the back in armored vehicle and the guy up top did all the work (and almost always it was warning shots, and most often frozen water bottles thrown at cars first to dissuade them)

(Basic firearms training is great, and the vehicle stuff is fun, but TBH the medical parts of these classes are far more useful; I wish more people would take trauma management classes. Outside of war zones, easy to go entire life without any "security" problems, but lots of car accidents, tool accidents, etc. where knwoing this stuff can save someone.)

Why thank you, but I’ll just keep taking the Hoboken–33rd subway

For a long time, it was my go-to rebuttal for the idiots who claimed that they'd rather be "thrown clear" in an accident: "I knew someone who was thrown clear. Then the car flipped over on top of him."

And, yes, a substantial number of people are still not wearing seatbelts.

The woman who died in the Tesla must have had a horrific death, that shit is utterly terrifying.