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In this and dozens of other cases, lawyers contend the gun has a design flaw that can cause unintentional discharges without a trigger pull. Sig Sauer did not respond to a request for comment, but ...
Police officers are among those to have reported injuries they say were caused by the alleged defect in the SIG Sauer P320 pistol, although more than 100 said they had experienced an accidental ...
SIG Sauer responded by asserting that most accidental discharges involve negligence; that many other gun models suffer from such discharges; that the P320 has been extensively tested and meets safety standards; and that, despite years of complaints and litigation, no one has successfully recreated the claimed phenomenon by demonstrating a P320 ...
The discharge raised flags about the safety of officers still carrying the Sig Sauer P320 handgun. The gun had been issued to every member of Montville's department.
Sig Sauer insists the gun is safe. “We've been asking Sig for over three years now to recall this gun, to fix it, and frankly to use the same type of safeties that other manufacturers are using that Sig Sauer is not,” Robert W. Zimmerman, the plaintiff's lawyer, said after the verdict.
Sig Sauer has settled at least one federal class action lawsuit involving the P320, involving pistols made before 2017, offering refunds or replacement guns to purchasers. ___ This story was first published on Nov. 20, 2024. It was updated on Nov. 21, 2024, to remove an erroneous reference to the plaintiff’s holstered pistol going off by itself.
The SIG Sauer line of pistols, such as the SIG P226, frequently feature decocking levers. The earliest use of a single-action decocker was the Vis wz. 35 "Radom" redesign in 1932 to enable horsemen to safely holster their firearm with one hand. [6] The earliest use of a cocking/decocking lever is the Sauer 38H from 1938.
An accidental discharge (AD) occurs when there is a mechanical failure of the firearm.This can include things like firearms that do not have mechanisms to render them drop safe falling a sufficient distance, [1] a firing pin stuck forward, [2] a sear failing, [3] or rounds heating sufficiently to spontaneously ignite in the chamber (as may happen in a closed bolt machine gun).