Trying to sneak a knife on a plane? Perhaps the worst design possible. #KnifeFAIL

Trying to sneak a knife on a plane? Perhaps the worst design possible. #KnifeFAIL

Another standard week of GunFAIL. The TSA reports 44 firearms discovered at airports this week, 35 of which were loaded. And as usual, almost everyone said they'd "forgotten" or didn't realize they were carrying weapons. Remember folks, an armed society can only be a polite society if everyone knows whether or not they're armed. In other news, five Polite Patriots offered Liberty Projectiles to their neighbors free of charge, and one kept it in-house, installing a Freedom Hole in his friend's neck from down in the basement, while his pal was upstairs puttering around in the kitchen. In addition, a new inter-sport outreach program instituted in Virginia introduced the bicycling community to shooting sports this week, when a passing cyclist took advantage of the opportunity to get closer to the gun-owning community as he pedaled by the home of a friendly gent in the middle of loading his pistol inside.

Four of our friends shot themselves cleaning loaded guns this week, two of whom soon afterward departed this life. Two law enforcement officers were involved in GunFAIL episodes. Three people were injured in two accidents while target shooting, and one gent was fatally shot by his lady friend whom he was teaching to use firearms safely, which in hindsight might have been better accomplished without the assistance of alcohol and marijuana, but Freedom being what it is these days, I really shouldn't judge.

This week also brought us news of this year's second gunshot injury sustained during an unsuccessful attempt to shoot a raccoon, though it's true that as a matter of policy I do not report on how many raccoons have been successfully shot.

On a more somber note, the minor victims of GunFAIL this week included three 5-year-olds, one 9-year-old, two 12-year-olds, two 13-year-olds, two 16-year-olds, one 17-year-old, one teen of unknown age, and one young boy of unknown age. One of the 12-year-olds and the 9-year-old were the victims of the recent homicide-suicide tragedy in which the older boy is believed to have killed himself after possibly accidentally shooting his younger brother.

Below the fold, please find this week's report.