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by patterson
Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:41 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Sig P320 un-commanded discharges
Replies: 35
Views: 15173

Re: Sig P320 un-commanded discharges

Paladin wrote: Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:02 pm
Scott B. wrote: Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:09 am
Beiruty wrote: Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:52 pm Do those P320 issued to service members and LEO have a manual safety?
Yes, and the M17/M18 never had the issue the commercial 320 side corrected in 2017.
As the gun community started to circulate word of the problem, Sig Sauer announced a “voluntary upgrade” program in August 2017, allowing P320 owners to ship their guns to the company for a free fix to guard against the “rare occurrence” of accidental discharge in a drop. But its website insists that the unrepaired gun “meets and exceeds all US safety standards,” and the company has not issued a recall. ... But more than 500,000 pistols were sold before Sig Sauer acknowledged the problem publicly, according to company statements to several gun trade publications...Three sellers displayed unrepaired guns, yet claimed they had been upgraded. ...“Safety without compromise,” Sig Sauer promotional materials boast. “We’ve designed safety elements into every necessary feature on this pistol. From the trigger, to the striker and even the magazine, the P320 won’t fire unless you want it to.”...During testing on April 20, 2016, the military says it discovered that the Sig Sauer pistol would fire on its own when dropped. The examination used a test version of ammunition, similar to a blank. A recent Department of Defense report describes what happened. “During drop testing in which an empty primed cartridge was inserted, the striker struck the primer causing a discharge,”
law enforcement officers are suing over a pistol that can fire when you drop it. {JUN 2018}

Basically SIG lied about not having a problem... To say there is no longer a problem, when they lied about there being a problem in the first place and hundreds of thousands of unrepaired guns are still floating around is something I simply don't trust.

SIG's website still refers to the fix as the P320 Voluntary Upgrade Program :banghead:
But in that test was the safety engaged?
by patterson
Sat Sep 11, 2021 7:14 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Sig P320 un-commanded discharges
Replies: 35
Views: 15173

Re: Sig P320 un-commanded discharges

The M17 has a safety and I believe the P320 does not

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