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A prospective customer examines a case of Sig Sauer P320 handguns at the 2015 NRA Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, not long after the model first went on sale to the public (Karen Bleier ...
New Hampshire gun maker Sig Sauer is facing another round of civil lawsuits alleging the company’s P320 pistol fired without a trigger pull, causing serious injuries.
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.
A slamfire is a discharge of a firearm occurring as a cartridge is being loaded into the chamber. Some firearms are designed to slamfire, but the term also describes a malfunction of self-loading firearms. Shooters accustomed to firearms requiring trigger activation for discharge may be unprepared for a slamfire discharge.
The P320 can be chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum, .357 SIG, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, and 10mm Auto and can be easily converted from one caliber to another; a change from .357 SIG to .40 S&W requires only a barrel change; a change from 9mm to .357 SIG or .40 S&W (or vice versa) is accomplished using a caliber exchange kit.
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 ...
An Indian River County Sheriff's corporal was shot in the leg by his service pistol, which officials said fired involuntarily while holstered.
A SIG Sauer P226 semi-automatic pistol, with magazine removed SIG Sauer P226 Elite Platinum 9mm SIG Sauer 1911 Super Target .45 ACP. In January 1985, SIG established a subsidiary, SIGARMS, Inc, in Tysons, Virginia, to import the P220 and P230 models into the United States.