GunFAIL IX

First, let's round up some #GunFAIL-related stories that didn't make this week's compilation. Beginning with this one:

Wichita police are investigating Sunday the accidental shooting of a 4-year-old boy. At 5:22 p.m. Sunday, 911 received a call saying a mother was taking her 4-year-old boy to Via Christi Hospital on Harry saying he had been shot in the head. The mother told police he had been accidentally shot while someone in the house was cleaning a gun.

Why isn't that one included? Cleaning a loaded gun?

The boy was shot in the left side of the head above the eyebrow with a .177-caliber air rifle, Brunscheen said.

Ah, they get off on a technicality. And I have similarly declined to include this one, involving a 10-year-old boy from Florida. We don't count BB guns, pellet guns, air rifles and the like in our #GunFAIL count. Though you still shouldn't clean them loaded, or fire them into your children's bodies. And I'd be open to persuasion on that point, if anyone's got an argument to make on it. Also note that sometimes the detail about exactly what type of gun is involved only comes out days later, so it's entirely possible that such incidents have been accidentally included in the past.

Among those stories that did make the round-up this week, we have eight people who shot themselves or others cleaning their guns, not counting the Wichita air rifle. We have two law enforcement officers who accidentally shot themselves. We have two concealed carriers who dropped their guns. Two people who shot themselves in gun classes (not including the suicide). Three people who lied to the police and said they were attacked, but were later forced to admit they shot themselves. One person who accidentally shot into his neighbor's place. One gun shop employee who shot himself clearing a weapon.

And one special shout-out for Kokomo, IN, which gave us two surprising listings this time around. One, among our favorite type of dark humor stories, in which a convenience store robber conveniently shot himself in the balls during the hold-up (waistband ninja). And one that I have some serious questions about, in which students in a school classroom had a loaded handgun and spare magazine fall out of the ceiling tiles! Can't wait to have more of that happening, because safety!

One more important story that didn't make the cut, along with this week's dishonor roll, below the fold.