Wouldn’t you know it, a screenshot of an anonymous post on the internet claiming that it discharged while inside a holster appears to not be accurate.
Forgotten Weapons has a great video about this whole issue. I found it odd that there’s been no actual evidence of the guns misfiring, dropped or otherwise, and there’s been no mechanical explanation given as to why they’re “misfiring”. It’s all based cases like this where we’re just taking peoples’ word for it and it’s to the point that the Air Force is burning money on a review.
This dude is gonna be made an example of if he’s proven guilty…
Ian also hit the nail on the head that even if there genuinely is no defect whatsoever on the gun, they still are in deep shit due to public perception regardless of reality.
Yeah, some people are WAY too invested in the whole thing, but I’ve been around long enough that I’ve seen this all before. Gen1 Glock 17s could also fire after being dropped, for example, so they had to come up with the drop-safety fix. Also the whole free floating firing pin thing in SKSs when the old soviet stockpiles started flooding the market in the 90s, despite the issue being known about for decades.
Shit happens, they’ll (hopefully) end up fixing it if the slide issue is the culprit. Then everybody will forget it all in 6 months. Maybe not the people that literally put bumper stickers on their cars over this whole shit show, but everyone else any ways lol
Protip: Isopropyl alcohol is great for getting the glue off of your car without damaging the paint (it evaporates faster than acetone) ;)
So there is an example of misfiring, it just takes very special circumstances. See this YouTube video.
A slight pressure on the trigger and a little sideways manipulation of the slide and it goes bang.
Not saying that’s what happened to the airman or that forgotten weapons was wrong, just more recent info.
Oh wow, someone finally found something. I love the comments there btw… “SIG IS DONE!” and whatnot lol
When this really looks like a minor tolerance stacking issue at best. Something is causing the slide not to rest properly and allowing movement, which frees up room for the hammer and/or safety. But with SIGs being modular you can easily swap the frame, slide or anything really. So it should be a simple fix they can rollout.
Cool, so if you pull the trigger part way it disengages the safety that is designed to disengage when the trigger is pulled… just like all of its competitors on the market.
Either way my P320 is banned at my local range since last October.
I can buy something else but then the new magazine restrictions come into play.
Or I can buy a super expensive gun that uses the same P320 magazines.
This is all regardless of how safe the P320 is or isn’t, because I’m not the one who banned it.
