The main difference is that the M&P never had the problem the p320 did with trigger mass. Were not the only ones who have noticed the lawsuits. No, it doesnt. https://millsentertainment.smugmug.com/William-Shatner-The-Wrath-of-Khan Glocks have gone off when people attempted to holster them and after they have holstered them, some times way later after holstering them like the fellow that got into his pickup truck. MIM strikers made in India and put into Sigs. Upgrades are for things that didnt work right in the first place. The hype leading up to the P365 was pretty intense and the LGS sold a bunch of those. So park the Cops suck cause they aint gunfighters! bull**it. He had to be reprimanded by the range officer twice for unsafe handling of his pistol. UPDATE:We were just made aware of YouTuber BoomStick Tactical who produced this video the day before our post published. Liberal, Conservative. What exactly did Harrison mean by legal momentum? That isnt clear, but its easy to make an educated guess. Aint been nothing but problems since the military dropped the 1911, what was it 85 year of trusted service? Harrison stated that, I have not seen enough to convince me that the upgraded version is dangerous., When ABCs David Scott asked Harrison if its a mystery whats going wrong with the updated version though Harrison had just stated the upgraded pistol isnt dangerous Harrison said, I do not have an explanation for why the updated version should have complaints from trained individuals. This is just blind greed using some careless doofus to sell a lie and cash in because a civil jury, like the average American voter, can be manipulated easily though emotion, tears and stories of anguish, pain and suffering at the foot of some super-rich evil corporations cold-blooded behest. First I have no problem with the Mk 25 or any other Sig thats metal. Bagnell is representing a number of the police officers who have filed suits against SIG for un-commanded discharges, but wouldnt disclose the exact number. abprototype.com can add the manual safety as well as add the notches in the grip frame. They function as commanded every time. 1:07. Sig Sauer P220 Super Match. The safety WILL prevent the gun from firing with a trigger pull when activated, but it should never come to that. But it hardly indicts the P320 as a badly engineered weapon or that its worse than another brand. who sells them? They suck and Im awesome!, 2. The bullet struck a soldier in the leg. LEO handguns get into struggles, they get laid and rolled on, they get smacked into vehicles/doorways, they get dropped, they get drawn and holstered way more often than their civilian counterparts. This is this same company that couldnt build their own freaking rifles after multiple attempts (Sig SG550 series) when that rifle had been made in Switzerland for years without issue. Cars have so many electronics these days, who knows what could have gone wrong! I bought a P320 and went through the voluntary upgrade. That a shirt tail or jacket cinch cord slips into a holster. Such being the case, there very well may BE in inherent design flaw in the gun; We shouldnt just cast the thought aside as being beyond consideration and insist on blaming the problem on operator error.. saw the video, doesnt explain how it bypasses striker pin safety. Keep the phrase legal momentum in mind. Second, every gun maker has made lemons in the past. Remember the stupidity of the far right is infinite and the blind greed of the gun makers prove they could not care less about human life and suffering. A plastic gun that has a tendency to go off by itself. NEWINGTON - A Hillsboro man is suing Newington gunmaker Sig Sauer alleging his Sig P320 pistol fired, without him pulling the trigger, causing a bullet to be discharged into his thigh. Combine this with the complacency that comes with handling a firearm over-and-over again as you holster and unholster a firearm throughout the day, its not surprising that many of these officers are saying it just went off as a negligent discharge can cost them their job if it lead to serious injury or property damage. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. As for the Serpa holster, this is a bunch of internet echo chamber BS that originated with Obama-era federal agencies putting a bad light on a good product in order to sway public opinion and thus damage the manufacturers bottom line. Theres a couple of possibilities. So are dumb(or arrogant) cops. So I think it is unconscionable, given the number of incidents of this gun defectively discharging without a trigger pull, would necessitate that someone order it to be recalled and only SIG can do that.. Hey, Im sitting here staring at my P320, waiting for it to go bang! Then theres the fact that the branches of the military have put the P320 design through their own batteries of testing and found it duty worthy. I own Serpa holsters in multiple configurations (1911, Beretta 96, H&K, Springfield, etc) for most of the time theyve been around and I NEVER had an ND. I lost $200 on a gun that had less then 1000 rounds through it but I could care. These officers are not gunfighters. Back in 2017, SIG instituted a voluntary upgrade program to replace the original production triggers with new enhanced triggers designed to fix the issue that we and others observed when the pistols were dropped onto hard surfaces. I agree. The VIP screening with the meet and greet was like $600. Sig Sauer's headquarters are located in New Hampshire at Pease International Tradeport. Being prosecuted and convicted of a third degree felony in Texas can lead to: Incarceration in a Texas state prison for a term of two years or up to 10 years. If the P320 was so great then why did special forces go to the Glock 19? I call b-s on all these my gun magically went off. That said, I own multiple P320s, but all of them have the manual safety due to personal preference. I dont consider the drop-bang issue a failure and Sigs response was actually above any real need, except to perhaps deflect any easy wins for slime ambulance chasers I get that. Carrying a handgun in a purse, particularly one that isnt designed specifically to carry a firearm, is problematic at best. Both companies, instead, took to pro-gun industry forums to offer a rebuttal, giving no opportunity to answer questions. Im more of a DS9 guy. That took a lot. They habitually use their customers as the product testers by selling what are essentially prototypes while quietly implementing rolling revisions. On Nov. 5, 2020, a recently-purchased SIG Sauer P320 pistol went off unexpectedly at a training range in Dwyer Hill, outside of Ottawa. The problem was strikers. 2) The p320 does have a half cocked notch. Is it? is the manual safety a kit you add? brakes, remember? Thread starter ut755ln; Start date Oct 19, 2022; Forums. Really, that JJA ship looks like something the folks at PlaySkool built, its terrible. Thats just myopic brand lust on parade. It isnt the beginner woodworker who loses fingers. Even if it was an issue with the sear interface, there is still a firing pin safety that will not move unless the trigger is held firmly to the rear. My dad owned one and that is exactly what happened one time when he was using it. Too expensive to use their customers as beta testers. Sig started out rough, but a lot of agencies have decided that their modular chassis system is the way of the future. Maybe in South America a poor military did, but thatd be about it. Would you? And those are exactly the kinds of plaintiffs who happen to make up the vast majority of the lawsuits filed against SIG. selling the 365 with strikers breaking? This is what happens when you go with the lowest bidder. Jeff Bagnell, a lawyer in Westport, Conn., who has litigated 10 cases, mostly by commercial gun owners, related to SIG P320 misfires across several U.S. states, took note of the accident involving the Canadian special forces soldier. To give you an example of early self-propelled lawn mowers if you lost your grip on the handles the mower would not shut off and it would take off on its own right down the street all by itself. Training and experience are not a talisman that magically prevents accidents. Theyve gotten tons of contracts because the gun is cheap, cheap, cheap to make. never got into the P320 It is to me a Range gun not a carry gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsu6WsSQ2_g. SIG says ABC had intended to include some of those other claims in their reports, but after SIG informed the network of the additional information that was uncovered, those cases werent included in either of the segments. I cant stand Glocks but SIG P320s are junk. And yes, if I pulled some of those stunts, Id have my membership revoked. Fair enough. A holstered base P320 allegedly had a mysterious accidental discharge without pulling the trigger. So even if, as the ambulance chaser claims, the striker leg could vibrate off of the sear face, it could not discharge unless the drop safety was also disengaged because the drop safety prevents movement of the striker sufficient to make the firing pin protrude from the breech face. Not too long after they sold a pistol to the public and United States military thats not even DROP SAFE?!? On Thursday, M.D. hate to tell you this but most lawnmowers with the handle bar stop get tied down. Big public relations disaster and Sig tries a second time to get the piece of shit to work and not go off when dropped. So far I have only heard of one instance (post fix) where there was an ND and the post mortem on the gun demonstrating a mechanical failure. At this point I would have to say that Taurus is a better handgun. Additional questions about the Voluntary Upgrade Program are answered in the FAQ. 01:10. Get a dead trigger when the striker breaks. The P320s and P365s were junk, plain and simple. So I give a ton of credit to Shatner for reading the reality of what it was and in essence, saving it. The SIG P320 has been the subject of numerous lawsuits, including one class action case, in the U.S. over injuries sustained because of accidental discharges. . While good firearms training and practices among law enforcement officers is certainly the case much of the time, weve seen far too many instances over the years of un-safe or downright dangerous practices by allegedly highly trained individuals to apply that kind of blanket endorsement to all cops or alphabet agency employees. I used to laugh at his bragging about how skilled he was with a weapon.. Its not credible to claim that people with this amount of training, this amount of skill are all shooting themselves.. Wont last!. But just the same- a gun going off from momentum? Slowly people are realizing they arent the only ones having issues. Were not saying that the suits against GLOCK are any more (or less) substantiated than those against SIG. The sear cams it back a teeny bit. Why you and I are arguing over a gun that neither owns or will own, The new guy sucks. Being highly trained doesnt eliminate stupidity. The networks report didnt mention lawsuits filed by LEOs (or anyone else) against other gun makers claiming similar alleged design defects. A holstered base P320 allegedly had a mysterious accidental discharge without pulling the trigger. Milwaukee Police Report Issues With Sig P320's Discharging By Tom Knighton | 11:30 AM on October 30, 2021 AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast Several years ago, there was an issue discovered with the. Ron Cohen ruined Kimber and now hes doing the same to SIG. To put it simply, they are expensive cheaply made junk. He wasnt aware of it until contacted earlier this week by CBC News and suggested it was relevant in ongoing litigation in the U.S. We look forward to reviewing the incident in discovery in the United States, he said Friday. Im not even sure I would do that with my 92 or something else that can be both decocked and locked. But it also has much worse quality control on the parts in my experience owning and working on both. If these same folks were around in the 80s and got their way, no one today would know what a Glock was. The current allegations, then, are different, claiming that the P320 is prone to un-commanded discharges.. The drop-bang thing only happened at a very narrow event window, it was only once the Internet doom-preachers figured out that narrow window and did it over and over online did it appear to be a thing. Sig adapted and changed the pistol sufficiently to prevent even that issue. This website has been messed up all week so that might be the problem in replying. The settlement requires the gunmaker to reimburse owners of . Was it his fault? Much has been made of Nimoys Spock being the most popular character in TOS, but Id argue that without Shatners over-the-top swagger and brash manner, the balance would be lost. Theyre just on a 30 year nap hoping what they did will carry them forever. Its interesting that ABC chose to leave that point out of one of their reports. Picard if Im limited to NCC-1701. The company didnt want to comment on any specific pending litigation for obvious reasons. While this incident occurred months ago, this erroneous media report is driven by multiple sources, including our competitors, and coincides with the imminent release of other Canadian military and law enforcement tenders, indicating the timing of its release is an attempt to improperly influence the procurements, the statement said. Unless they have to fire their weapon in an on-duty incident most officers only fire their weapons just before and/or at qualifications, which depending on the department are annual or semi-annual. NO, SIG has a problem that they would rather fight in court. I could care but that came at the expense of reliability and safety. It sounds the same as arguing whether Captain Marvel could beat Superman up in a fist fight its pretty absurd and laughable. Ditto; that's what i was getting at earlier Bear007 Custom Aug 25, 2021 #18 If the latter were to occur, the drop safety would prevent discharge because it would not be pushed up by anything. Just 3 days ago, a Florida Corrections recruit killed herself by a negligent discharge during firearms training. Heres the version of the report that ran later that night, during ABCs Nightline program . (b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. The P320 pistol is a dog. . 35446 Views 56 Replies 41 Participants Last post by tirod, Sep 1, 2021. About $300. So, unlike the Serpa holster debate, Im a believer that there is more going on than meets the eye with the P320 and is exactly why I refrained from buying one, why I still wont own one, and why I steer people away from it. Pity that some of the most common reactions fall into two over simplistic categories: 1. Sounds like these officers and others are attempting to cover their posteriors. It provides another example of how the gun free zone purportedly keeps people safe by not only keeping guns away, but by requiring more discharges nearby. So I will just continue to carry Mexican style with my striker fired polymer wonder nine from a company that may or may not be SIG. Lastly, ship-wise I have to go with the TMP-era refit Enterprise, regardless of Captain. In this version, Bridge City Officer Brittany Hilton tells her story of what she says happened when her P320 discharged as she was carrying it in her purse in what appears to be a SERPA holster (which has had its own problems, but thats another story). The military has found that the pistol has a tendency to eject live rounds among other issues. They both underwent full testing but while the Sig was the cheaper handgun ($1.50), it also quoted higher costs for magazines and spare parts, boosting the overall cost of the acquisition. Anyway around here they do. So the tally goes against the surrounding area, not against the gun free zone. Right up front, the use of an ill-fitting/improper-for-the-gun holster instantly negates any idea of an unintended discharge being the fault of the design. They didnt see a problem at all and in fact, saw it as an upgrade over Glock. This reminds me of when Gretchen Carlson sued Fox News for sexual harassment and she got 20 million dollars. These lawsuits ARE about SIG making defective weapons. So your fanboy perjorative falls not only flat but false. Covid ruined that gravy train for him but hes still doing the conventions. The P320 should be scrapped and SIG Sauer USA should redesign a new pistol around the striker firing mechanism instead of just retrofitting a hammer fired pistol (P250). There are several stories about her in the news for various no reasons, she must be throwing them out by a dozen. Hey, Im glad theres somethings we agree on! A fine of up to $10,000. The SIG P320 has been the subject of numerous lawsuits, including one class action case, in the U.S. over injuries sustained because of accidental discharges. All polymer guns are cheap, cheap, cheap to make, thats why I threw the Taurus name into the mix. In 2020, the agent, who is a former marine, was doing his routine training with the P320. The problem is non-existent. Personally they should have gone with the Glock, its not for me but is a proven gun. Sig fanboys are almost as bad as Glock fanboys. Look a fanboy. I have no idea. Especially since they farm it out to the lowest bidder. Ironic that the trendsetters of yesteryear are trying to tear down the innovator of today because its Not perfected yet! and the Design isnt worked out!.
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