Six of 48 guns found by TSA agents at airports around the country last week.

Six of 48 guns found by TSA agents at airports around the country last week.

Another mercifully light week in terms of the accidents, but still no letup in the rate at which people are accidentally shooting themselves, with another 17 listed this time, and details still emerging on a few more merely reported as accidents but no shooter identified. Additionally, just seven kids accidentally shot, ages 6, 8, 12, 15, and three 16 year olds. You kind of have to step back when you realize that just seven kids accidentally shot in a week is, relatively speaking, not as bad a thing as usual.

Among our usual assortment of accidents, we find three gun-cleaning mishaps, two gun owners who accidentally fired into their neighbors' homes, two gun owners who thought they heard someone breaking into their homes and accidentally discharged their guns (one into a neighbor's house, and one into his own hand), two cop-involved GunFAILs, two accidental shootings between siblings, two between spouses, and one mom shot by her own 2 year old. In fact, in that case, it's worth pointing out that the woman shot had taken her gun out thinking she'd seen someone outside her home, but later put it down and went to the bathroom, leaving it out for her son to find. So that's three people who took their guns out on false alarms and ended up with bullets where they hadn't intended.

Two people also shot themselves unloading their guns last week, two were shot in hunting accidents, and one left her gun in the bathroom at church. And as always, some substantial portion of the people stopped by TSA agents at airports last week (48 this time) insisted that they had forgotten they were armed at all, even as 39 of them were carrying loaded weapons, 16 with rounds chambered. But that happens week in and week out.

Time marches steadily on, and so does the GunFAIL. Below the fold, last week's stories.