Ten of 46 firearms confiscated by TSA agents this past week.

Ten of 46 firearms confiscated by TSA agents this past week.

Pretty heavy volume of accidents for a week that also included yet another gun massacre. And I suppose it must be noted that the Navy Yard shooter has a GunFAIL incident (and a home invasion shooting, at that) in his past.

Unfortunately, the standout stats of the week fell disproportionately on the kids. Twelve were accidentally shot this week, including four three-year-olds, three five-year-olds, and kids aged eight, 10, 11, 14 and 16. In addition, one college student was accidentally shot by another (who was, of course, just trying to make his gun "safe" at the time), and another found herself the uninjured victim of a home invasion shooting (of which there were a total of six). Ten guns were found in schools this week as well, in Kansas City, MO; Clarksburg, WV; Shreveport, LA; Chattanooga, TN; Knoxville, TN; Mobile, AL; Nashville, NC; Paramus, NJ; Providence, RI, and; Hawthorne, FL. That's a rough week.

Other routine stats include five security guards or police officers involved in GunFAIL incidents, 11 incidents involving some variation of showing off, playing with, cleaning, checking, "securing," loading or unloading guns, one hunting accident, one gun range accident, and one concealed weapon dropped and discharged in public.

Among the stories of particular note: the two New York City police officers who fired on a suspect but hit bystanders instead; the Arkansas town mayor who accidentally shot out a window in the police chief's office; the man who decided it would be appropriate to respond to a three-year-old's pretend finger "gun" with an actual firearm, which, naturally, he erroneously didn't think was loaded, and; the alleged car thief apprehended by armed citizens, but then "accidentally" killed when one of them fell down and discharged his weapon. Possibly more than once.

And of course, there was also this week's story I didn't know quite what to do with: the double-fatal road rage shootout in Ionia, MI, apparently involving two concealed carriers, one of whom had been arrested in 2006 for carrying concealed while intoxicated. This was closely followed four days later by another shootout two counties over, in Muskegon, MI, that left three dead. But that happened on Sunday, which means for our purposes it's a matter for GunFAIL XXXVII.

We're on GunFAIL XXXVI this week, and that list appears below the fold.