GunFAIL VI

We're back with another round of #GunFAIL stories. Because it keeps happening.

This is very annoying to gun rights advocates, but the news is the news. Does this represent a tiny portion of the guns and gun owners out there? Absolutely. But can we do something about it? Absolutely. For instance, this week, you'll read the story of the concealed weapon permit holder in Florida (where else?) who exercised his right to be a responsible gun owner by concealing his ammunition in his oven. Could we maybe do something to reduce the number of such incidents? Yeah, I think so.

And yes, people continue to clean loaded weapons, too. Or at least, so they claim. Whatever we think they might really have been doing, in the end, they found it less embarrassing to tell the police they were cleaning a loaded gun than to tell them whatever it was that they might have been doing instead. I'll leave it to you to decide why that might be. In this week's installment in the #GunFAIL series, 10 of our stories involve reports of cleaning loaded guns, and when all the details of the later-breaking stories come out, that number may well increase.

Also of interest in this week's compilation: seven concealed carriers had gun accidents, though only four of them actually appear to have had concealed carry permits. Two other carriers also shot themselves while out and about with their weapons, but it's not entirely clear that they were concealing at the time. And of course, the permit holder whose ammunition exploded in the oven this week wasn't actually carrying his gun at all at the time. It was in a drawer. Whereas the bullets were in the oven. And nothin' says lovin' like bullets in the oven.

One additional note: There was one suicide attempt that made the #GunFAIL list this week, even though I've been excluding them from the count lately. I believe you'll see the logic in it once you read the story.

And with that, please continue reading below the fold for this week's dishonor roll.