SIG Sauer and the Ongoing P320 Kerfuffle

It seems that ICE agents are no longer authorized to carry this sidearm. They are going to take it up the.... - by Miguel Gonzalez

For those of you not in the know, SIG has been accused of producing a firearm in the P320 that "goes off by itself." This isn't an isolated incident or two. And now has spilled over to the LEOs at the federal level.

Law Enforcement and Military sales are pittance compared to civilian sales, we all know that. But they do have some influence on what people buy and even more on what people do not buy if safety is an issues, right or wrong.

It is my belief that the safety issue is related to some design clash between the gun itself and retention holsters. Sort of like binary explosives: individually they are perfectly safe, but when combined, boom will follow.

SIG's reaction has been denial, and a hearty F- You to anyone who has had an issue.

Good news however: I figure in a year or sooner, we will have a glut of P320s at deeply discounted prices at Gun Shows.

When a certain PD replaced all of its revolvers with Glocks, officers kept shooting themselves. In the end, there wasn't anything wrong with the Glock in question, but that the cops weren't used to the ease with which a striker-fired pistol could be discharged. Glock didn't say F You. They bought back all of the firearms. And got a lot of good will.

Glock also had problems of their own, and they fixed those problems. That also generated good will.

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