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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 has previously settled lawsuits involving alleged discharges, and the company successfully blocked a proposed class action lawsuit that centered on financial harm for P320 owners.
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 ...
Around 400 P320s were procured for the Canadian Joint Task Force 2 special forces unit (JTF-2) in 2019, but these were withdrawn and the earlier P226 pistols (also manufactured by SIG Sauer) reinstated following a misfire that injured a soldier during a training exercise in November 2020; JTF-2 was the only Canadian military unit using the P320 ...
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).
Slamfire occurs when the cartridge discharges as soon as it reaches the chamber, rather than waiting in the chamber to receive a firing pin impact when the trigger is pulled. Schematic of an Advanced Primer Ignition blowback operation that works in a similar way to slamfire by striking the cartridge as it is moving forward before it is fully ...
Jul. 26—MONTVILLE — A town police officer's handgun went off in the lobby of police headquarters Monday in an incident police have described as a "spontaneous discharge." The incident occurred ...
In firearms, a safety or safety catch is a mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling. Safeties generally can be divided into subtypes such as internal safeties (which typically do not receive input from the user) and external safeties (which typically allow the user to give input, for ...