To be sure, Ive informally asked every other owner of a Serpa holster when I meet them, whether they have ever had an ND because of the holster. 00:03. Why you and I are arguing over a gun that neither owns or will own, Second, your claim that the military is dumping because theyre problematic? But Im observant enough to see the same voices that said in 1985 that This new fangled Glock is a just a plastic toy! 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. And I suspect at end of day this recent P320 one will be identified as a negligent discharge or from weapons from 2017 where owners failed to . But this time, the sound bites used were different. -You plan on getting rid of your P320, great! Its interesting that ABC chose to leave that point out of one of their reports. The cheap seats were $100-$200 and you got to watch Wrath of Khan with Shatner. Stinking Lawyers and quota cops. You arent a gunfighter, either. The weapons are currently on the shelf and the soldiers have returned to using their older model SIG P226s. Note that Harrisons comment about these claims possibly being the result of legal momentum were edited out of the longer Nightline version of the report. 35446 Views 56 Replies 41 Participants Last post by tirod, Sep 1, 2021. Trigger is lighter than the Glock, it took years of aggressive training to reach the point of acceptable discharges with the Glock. He wanted to see how accurate the gun was, especially after the customer got it back after the voluntary upgrade. We will respect the ongoing investigation and will not offer further comment at this time, Bineau said. They admitted their problem and fixed it. Clients such as law enforcement officers whose negligent discharges could result in their being disciplined or fired unless it can be proven that the gun was at fault. Too Many Accidents What it likely means is that cops and other law enforcement officers carry and handle their guns far more often than the average Joe or Jane. Remember the highly trained FBI officer whose gun went off in a nightclub? Cops are crap with guns, unlike me, a REAL pistolero!
SEPTA officer's handgun spontaneously fired in Philly's Suburban Station And as far as Special Forces go, SF going to Glock has been documented as a bean counters solution to save money. For the moron Neanderthals of the Far Right who will scream its the operators fault and we do not give a shit about marketing more safer designed weapons, if such idiotic polices were followed for other consumer goods today we would not have safety glass, anti-lock breaks, back up safeties, child proof medicine caps and chemical bottles, back up cameras, kick back muzzles on chain saws and the list goes on and on. To put it simply, they are expensive cheaply made junk. . After watching a friend get killed by a Remington 700 by another friend and the ensuing fallout 31 years ago I decided that I didnt care if the P320 was fixed, it was getting sold. Attorney Bagnell held up the law enforcement officers he represents as examples of people who are highly trained in carrying and using firearms. I have no idea. Whats this silly BS? and youve gotten this far reading our thread.
Milwaukee Police Report Issues With Sig P320's Discharging 3. He said there has to be something wrong with the gun if this is happening to individuals with this amount of training, this amount of skill.. Just 3 days ago, a Florida Corrections recruit killed herself by a negligent discharge during firearms training. He likens it to a bow-and-arrow, pulled taut. Heres the version that ran Tuesday morning during the networks Good Morning America program . If you can make the trigger move backwards, all bets are off. JTF-2 is the only unit in. Using an example from the first prong, we legitimately fault the user who shot himself in the palm, rightfully asking why in the WORLD his palm was in front of the muzzle when he set the gun down.
Alec Baldwin fatally shoots cinematographer, injures director on set of I lost $150 dumping that gun and Sig instead of acknowledging that it had a problem and calling it a recall, denied all and everything and called it a voluntary upgrade., At my LGS a P320 just went off when one of the guys put it the counter when he set up a target. The Defiant regardless of who is the captain. A lot like carrying a cocked and locked 1911 but with the safety off. In 2021 you would think a company would understand MIM metallurgy. Result: Sig P320 goes off when dropped and shoots people. in Capitalvania. Thats deflecting from the real issue. If it was so bad, why did the US Marines, who had the Glock, drop it in favor of the carry sized P320, the M18? "It has a clear capacity to fire without the trigger being pulled under certain conditions," said Hilton's lawyer, Jeffrey Bagnell. Id read that for TMP, they got NASA to help in the design of the refit Enterprise. As they should. Charlton, headquartered in Victoria, B.C., for comment on its original story, but neither responded. Canadian soldier wounded by accidental discharge used wrong holster: SIG Sauer So are dumb(or arrogant) cops. This is why we now have back up safeties on garden tractors and riding lawn mowers. The second version emphasized the upgrade to fix the drop safety issue and notes that Harrison believes that problem has been fixed. Like many of our readers, weve been watching the slow drip, drip, drip of lawsuits accumulate over the past couple of years against SIG Sauer. 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 leads me to conclude that the problem is not the gear but the moron using it. . DND/CAF is not in a position at this stage in its investigation to offer insight into the potential causes because our investigation scope is broader than the technical aspect pertaining to the unintended discharge of the pistol.. There was nothing wrong with the Glock action, it was a training issue. I wont argue theyre wrong, I dont own one, dont want to. The new Tauruses have a good rep, far better then the P320 or P365. That took a lot. Then Weve got to go 9mm Nato. And hasnt been nothing but looking for the holy grail since. When he opened the drawer the hinges pulled the Charters trigger. It was one of the first ones and was sent back as a voluntary upgrade. Sig can burn for all I care. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday on behalf of .
Sig Sauer P320: The US Army Loves This Gun (But There Is a Problem) And many departments across the country have had to lower their standards for passing qualifications just to be able to hire on and keep officers. They have similar vertical sear engagement, but the M&P has more engagement width wise. If the latter were to occur, the drop safety would prevent discharge because it would not be pushed up by anything. CBC News reached out to Sig Sauer and its Canadian distributor, M.D. He points to it in the video. The truth is the absolute WORST semi-autos that Sig, H&K, Walther, Beretta or Glock makes today are more reliable than the best semi-autos made 40 years ago, by far. . 2. Its a novelty, its got issues! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LUbLu6TqA, Simply put, the P320 is not safe and the lawsuits arent frivolous. Ive seen similar situations at our Municipal range. It has an unsafe takedown procedure that requires you to pull the trigger to get the slide off. Its also interesting that theres apparently no corresponding flood of civilian lawsuits against SIG with similar claims of guns going off, even though the public owns far more P320s than do law enforcement agencies. The second accidental shooting happened after police supervisors internally raised questions about the safety of the SIG Sauer P320. As far as ships go, Im drawn to the original movie vessels because they look the most, to me, like something youd really see humans build in space in 300 years. An x-ray (fluoroscope) of the mechanism in operation could show what, if anything, is happening inside the gun that might prove, or disprove, the contention that the gun is flawed. Once investigated a shot fired into a roll top desk. Posts: 21156 | Registered: November 05, 2003. But just the same- a gun going off from momentum? Theyre just on a 30 year nap hoping what they did will carry them forever. There used to be a problem, which is why Sig fixed it. So the tally goes against the surrounding area, not against the gun free zone. Hello perpetrators, Lee Paige is clearly the gift that keeps on giving though our buddy Hunter Biden is a close second! 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. Google Keith Slatowski, is he lying also? The P320 pistol is a dog. Time will tell if no. They are being replaced with Glocks. If they recruit smart cops, they wont have cops who will act against their political opponents outside of the constitution. The Hide Armory. I have almost a hatred for Glocks but the one thing that they are is reliable. 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. hate to tell you this but most lawnmowers with the handle bar stop get tied down. This reminds me of when Gretchen Carlson sued Fox News for sexual harassment and she got 20 million dollars. Oh, if you another thread reader asking Wheres the Sig/Glock bashing? The military is much smarter and no, the gun is not junk. Theyre the only product that is not. You couldnt ask questions. The heads up testing was immediately finished the Sig was the winner. The Government mandated it to be made more safe to use and was. Hes like the arrogant star QB on your favorite football teamyeah, you would never want to spend a weekend with him at the lake cabin, but your franchise would be little to nothing without him. SIG Sauer, a German weapons maker with its U.S. headquarters in Newington, N.H., issued a statement Friday in response to a CBC News report earlier this week that revealed the Nov. 5, 2020, incident and the fact the weapon, the SIG P320, had been withdrawn from service while the military conducts an investigation. Ron Cohen ruined Kimber and now hes doing the same to SIG. The thing is, youd probably need to generate many Gs of force in both directions simultaneously. And people have a way of looking for ways to deflect blame for those discharges, especially when they stand to lose their job as a result. While we dont have the actual numbers of similar lawsuits filed against other gun makers actually no one individual or organization seems to keep track of these things and gun makers dont want to talk about it it seems highly likely that every major firearm manufacturer gets its share of a regular flow of lawsuits filed by both civilians and LEOs who claim SHAZAM!