Fifteen of the 58 guns discovered by TSA agents at airports across the country, during the week of April 8-14, 2016

Welcome to yet another backdated installment of GunFAIL. This time, we provide a look back at the week of April 10, 2016. A light week, by our numbers—just 37 newsworthy firearms mistakes, for starters! Among them: 11 kids accidentally shot, 10 people who accidentally shot themselves, seven people who accidentally shot family members or significant others, six fatalities, five law enforcement officers involved in mishaps, four practice range accidents, four accidental discharges by people out shopping, dining, or otherwise conducting business in public, three guns accidentally fired while being cleaned, and two accidentally fired into neighboring homes or properties.

The week also included a few stories that were part of continuing mini trends, each rather disturbing in their own right. Those would be accidental discharges inside hospitals and other health care facilities (as in Jackson, Mississippi), gun accidents while Skyping or otherwise teleconferencing (Granite Falls, North Carolina), and emergency services personnel accidentally shot during assistance calls (Temple Hills, Maryland).

Other incidents of a type we’ve seen before (but somewhat less frequently) include an accident between police firearms instructors (Devens, Massachusetts), and someone who both brought a real gun to a water gun fight and accidentally shot a teenager in the shoulder with the old “I can spin it on my finger like a cowboy, oh my God, call an ambulance” trick (Spring, Texas).

Brand new (I think) to our GunFAIL lists is the repeat home invasion shooting offender in Bay Village, Ohio. We’ve had repeat GunFAILers before, but just people who had accidentally shot themselves twice. This is someone who’s a serious menace to the community, though there’s no sign of anyone putting a stop to him any time soon. In April 2014, “responsible gun owner” Zack Gilchrist accidentally fired his assault rifle through his neighbor’s home. Now, Gilchrist has accidentally shot a 9mm handgun through another neighbor’s garage. The solution? Probation! It’s no wonder Ohio remains our GunFAILing-est northern state. Also new to the list: The accident that took the life of a 30-year-old Army veteran trying to capture exciting video of shooters at an unofficial gravel pit gun range in Sutton, Arkansas. You can do pretty much whatever you want there, which I suppose is how our videographer found himself downrange while shooting was still going on, looking for that perfect shot. An imperfect shot took him out, though, before it was all over.

Finally, let us marvel at the story of the Responsible Gun Owner who brought his sidearm to a local kids’ ballpark—to keep everyone safe, of course, including his own child whose team he was coaching. So Responsible was he in his Gun Ownership, that he ignored the posted signs declaring firearms prohibited in the sports complex, until other parents perhaps more fluent in English helpfully noted the rule for him. His solution? Well, firearms are prohibited in the complex, so he promptly put his firearm ... elsewhere in the complex. Specifically, his wife’s purse. Regular readers of GunFAIL know very well how secure purses are from the curious hands of toddlers, and alas, our Responsible Gun Owner had also brought one of those with him to the game, though to be fair, toddlers were not prohibited inside the complex. Now, I know nobody could have predicted this, but our toddler did manage to find the unattended, unsecured firearm, and fire it within the sports complex. And though there’s no specific posted prohibition against this, it’s fairly certain the Founders (of the sports complex) intended for this to be prohibited as well. No one was injured, thankfully, so ha ha, what a great gun culture anecdote, you Second Amendment scamps! You incorrigible pranksters, you!

Now read about the rest of the ways your friends, neighbors, and co-workers failed with guns.