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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.
New Hampshire gun maker Sig Sauer is facing another round of civil lawsuits alleging the company’s P320 pistol fired without a trigger pull.
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 ...
An unintentional discharge is the event of a firearm discharging (firing) at a time not intended by the user. An unintended discharge may be produced by an incompatibility between firearm design and usage, such as the phenomenon of cooking off a round in a closed bolt machine gun, a mechanical malfunction as in the case of slamfire in an automatic weapon, or be user induced due to training ...
The SIG Sauer M17 and M18 are service pistols derived from the SIG Sauer P320 in use with the United States Armed Forces. On January 19, 2017, the United States Army announced that a customized version of SIG Sauer 's P320 had won the Army's XM17 Modular Handgun System competition .
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY – After a deputy was wounded by an accidental firearm discharge, sheriff's officials abandoned plans to equip the agency with the same model handgun in the incident, and ...
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 ...