The recent case of Jennifer Crumbley, the mother held criminally liable for the deaths and injuries caused by her son during a Michigan high school shooting in 2021, brought back memories from State v. Wilchinski, 242 Conn. 211 (1997), wherein, writing for the Connecticut Supreme Court, I examined C.G.S. §29-37, defining a standard of care for the storage of loaded firearms, and §53a-217a, punishing the criminally negligent violation of that standard of care.