Grandmother shot during gun battle between her two grandsons, and more:

[Robb]

Nine of 31 guns found by TSA agents at airports this week.


A very active week of GunFAIL this week, with an unusually high number of stray bullets and home invasion shootings. This week, nine patriotic Americans freedomed their neighbors' houses or apartments, a number not including two more who accidentally fired into their neighbors' yards, but didn't hit their houses. Three liberty projectiles were counted escaping during range or target practice. Three people were hit by other stray bullets loosed in some other fashion, including an elderly grandmother accidentally shot during a gun battle between her two grandsons. Another unusually high count this week was the four false reports given to police by gun owners who had accidentally shot themselves, but preferred to tell cops they'd been shot by mysterious strangers, in once case setting off a massive (and presumably expensive) manhunt.

On the other hand, I found just one person who accidentally shot himself while cleaning a loaded gun. There were a few others who shot themselves while disassembling guns (presumably for the purpose of cleaning them), or attempting demonstrating the "proper" way to empty ammunition from their gun. But straight up cleaning was just one this week! Four Responsible Gun Owners shot themselves with guns they had in their waistbands or pockets. One security guard and two cops were involved in accidents or incidents of misuse. One man buying or trading a gun from another was accidentally shot and killed by his new gun before he could even complete the purchase. And one man shot his wife through the legs in an attempt to prove the gun she was worried about wasn't even loaded. Well, it wasn't loaded afterwards, anyway. So he showed her!

In the recurring category of guns found in schools, this week we have five in primary and secondary schools, and one on a college campus. The weapons were turned up in Baton Rouge, LA; Independence, LA; Cleveland, OH; Wheeling, WV, and; Winston-Salem, NC, where this week's entrant was the second gun found in that city this school year. The collegiate-level entrant was discovered in Dover, DE, at Wesley College.

The child victims of GunFAIL this week were ages 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 11, and included the three-year-old girl killed when she found her father's gun during a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park. Guns were prohibited in National Parks until around the time that Ella Tucker of Pocatello, ID was born. But Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) changed all that (in an amendment to a credit card finance regulation bill), and now Ella's gone.

Read More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/16/1237186/-GunFAIL-XXXV