Posted on 07/09/2025 10:28:08 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
I used to like Sig Sauer. They made good guns and had a good reputation.
Then the P320 rolled out, and the problems started. Even then, I didn't really hold it against them. The first problem was the guns drop firing if they landed at a particular angle. Since that was something that I could see being missed during testing. While they didn't recall the firearms, they did offer a voluntary upgrade that was supposed to fix the issue.
Sig Sauer claimed that nothing was wrong, that they'd been exonerated in court, and that it was all some anti-gun conspiracy to take down the company and our gun rights.
Since most of the people talking about it were gun people, that really bothered a lot of us, myself included.
Yet Sig claimed it just didn't happen. Guns didn't go off unless someone did something stupid.
Well, that thing they said never happens just happened again.
Ceres, CA- On June 24, 2025, at approximately 12:50 p.m., a Ceres Police Department School Resource Officer (SRO) was injured when her department-approved firearm discharged while holstered in the parking lot of Blaker-Kinser Junior High School, located at 1601 Kinser Road in Ceres. The officer involved in the incident has been identified as Officer Salin Chrim, a sworn member of the department assigned as a School Resource Officer.
At the time of the incident, summer school had concluded for the day, and only a limited number of students and staff remained on campus. Officer Chrim was not interacting with any students when the firearm discharged. Officer Chrim sustained a non-life-threatening injury to her leg and was immediately transported to a local hospital for medical treatment. No other individuals were injured.
The firearm involved in the incident was a Sig Sauer P320. holster.
(Excerpt) Read more at bearingarms.com ...
My question to our fellow SIG-owning FReepers: Would you feel confident carrying a P320?
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Your little three panel story would impress me more if the guy were paunchy and nerdy looking. I get the feeling she was looking for an excuse.
She appears to be taking her backpack off her shoulder, and the discharge happens just as the backpack brushes past the holstered firearm, causing her to drop the backpack. I would think the trigger would be fully concealed in the holster.
"Yes, she was fondling the holster prior to the firearm going off, but a holster should prevent the gun from going off just because someone touches or moves it. I mean, that's why you wear a holster, for crying out loud.
So this wasn't an autonomous firing after all. Interesting that the author said "fondling." They might want to reconsider approval of that holster.
I got the M18 military version of civilian p320 with the external manual safety.
No concerns, the manual safety mechanically blocks the trigger and striker.
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“Officer Chrim sustained a non-life-threatening injury to her leg...”
I’ve heard of Glock leg and now we have Sig leg too.
Bottom line, there are so many other better choices. The 320 is not a quality pistol, and not worth it. It brings nothing so spectacular to the table as to make it worth the risk.
Hmmm... all of my striker-fired rifles also have manual safeties - probably a coincidence...
;^)
Nope, I would not.
I don’t do striker fired pistols.
SA/DA only for me. Democrats lever means safe.
DECOCK LEVER
I don’t recall hearing about this type of incident back when cops carried revolvers, Barney Fife types notwithstanding.
One of my neighbors in New Mexico had a Colt single action .45 revolver that his dad carried as a Sandoval County Sheriff’s deputy.
FYI, the M18 safety does not block the striker, it only blocks the trigger bar. Is that safe? IMO, yes. The only problem with the 320 is that the trigger is short and light, and lends itself to being pulled accidentally. So a safety fixes that. If the claims about the 320 firing uncommanded with no trigger movement, the M18 and M17 would have the same issues, but they don’t.
320 doesn’t have a mechanical flaw, but more of a conceptual design flaw that you could make a mass market pistol with the characteristics of a target gun. It is inherently accident prone.
The fire control unit is too complicated and flimsy.
One female rent-a-cop does something stupid and all hell breaks loose.
a holstered weapon...
A round in the chamber...
...and the gun was cocked...
I dont know a lot about handguns but I managed to have these facts instantly pop into my head.
What am I missing here that says its not personal error??
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