SIG P320 Discharges?

[Mainsail]

Here is Bruce Gray, of GrayGuns, a few days ago explaining his view:



It is an Instagram, of which I am not a member, link, but the video can be viewed.

Do you have a synopsis of the video? I tried to watch it several times and it froze, and made me start over from the beginning.

 

[Onomea]

Cutting to the chase, he says this, which I posted earlier.



But he adds he will post more detailed videos on this this week. His presentation is also impressive, in that he is humble, and respectful of those who have experienced uncommanded discharges, saying he does not in any way question their honesty.

 

[Puller]

Someone has forgotten the Colt makes AR-type carbines (M5) for cops to use. https://www.colt.com/product-category/rifles/

No one forgot, that just wasn't the question. Colt has been out of the military and law enforcement business for handguns for half a century. Not since Colt was putting revolvers in cop holsters in early 1980's have they even been a contender for a contract.

 

[DWalt]

San Antonio Police Department announced today that it is suspending use of the SIG 320 after the Thursday USAF incident. https://www.military.com/daily-news...e-identified-21-year-old-kentucky-native.html Nothing stated about what will replace the 320 in the SAPD.

I have to echo the earlier opinion. What was wrong with the Beretta M9 that warranted a change? It was probably the toughest and safest handgun ever used by the US military, at least after some early debugging. Virtually indestructible, always reliable.

 

[Kanewpadle]

San Antonio Police Department announced today that it is suspending use of the SIG 320 after the Thursday USAF incident. https://www.military.com/daily-news...e-identified-21-year-old-kentucky-native.html Nothing stated about what will replace the 320 in the SAPD.

I have to echo the earlier opinion. What was wrong with the Beretta M9 that warranted a change? It was probably the toughest and safest handgun ever used by the US military, at least after some early debugging. Virtually indestructible, always reliable.

Better yet, why did they go away from the 1911?

 

[eclayton]

Having carried an M9 with an empty chamber, empty mag well, and 2 loaded mags as a contractor under contractor ROD I'll mildly suggest this is a policy solution to a training problem.

Don’t feel bad; I was required to carry the M9 the same way within the FOB as an active duty US Marine, conducting meetings with Afghan police counterparts who struck me as just a little bit dodgy. I kept one round concealed where it could do the most good, in the chamber. In the event of a green on blue incident that would at least give me one shot before drawing my knife. Those were the good old days when the issue pistol was physically incapable of an uncommanded discharge in the holster.

 

[LVSteve]

Air Combat Command is also stepping back from the P320.

Sig M18 Pistol Restrictions Expand To USAF Air Combat Command Units

Elements of Air Combat Command have joined Air Force Global Strike Command in halting use of M18 pistols after a fatal incident.

www.twz.com

 

[RebCop]

Sig came out with a fix for the issue and they correct it and give it a better trigger no charge. Why any police or military would not have known about this since before Covid and not had any effected firearms corrected is shameful on their part.

Apparently it didn't fix it as the problem is too much tolerance between slide and frame.

 

[Thaddeus Beauregard]

Sig came out with a fix for the issue and they correct it and give it a better trigger no charge. Why any police or military would not have known about this since before Covid and not had any effected firearms corrected is shameful on their part.

First, the trigger fix was not for this current issue; it was a response to the drop test failures that were brought to light by Omaha Outdoors in 2017. Sig made the change to a lighter trigger and a couple other modifications as part of their "voluntary upgrade" to address the problem with inertia firing the gun when dropped on the rear of the slide. That has absoluetly nothing to do with the current ADs being reported. No connection whatsoever. It's just yet another shameful chapter in the hasty and substandard engineering that went into development of the P320, a striker fired modification of their existing hammer fired P250. Second, they didn't do it out of the kindness of their tender hearts; they did it because they were getting their asses handed to them in the court of public opinion, just as they are now. All the while, they were telling their customer base that there was nothing wrong with the gun; the "voluntary upgrade" was a fix for a problem that they claimed didn't exist, yet it addressed a known safety issue to a gun they claimed wasn't unsafe, so the "voluntary upgrade" enhanced the safety of a perfectly safe gun, only now it was safer and there was never a problem even though that upgraded trigger solved a problem that they said didn't exist, despite our lying eyes seeing the problem that was nonexistant. Then, they also quietly changed the design to multiple parts and didn't inform P320 owners of the changes... because there was nothing wrong with the gun... no, these changes were merely enhancements because the gun was perfectly safe. Just ask them.

They earned every bit of the bad publicity for their outright lies, arrogance, and contempt for their paying customers.