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From the comments: 10-minute YouTube videos from engineers and gunsmiths explain (and demonstrate) in simple-terms the bad decisions and corporate cost-cutting which results in the Sig P320 being a weak and unsafe design. No 3-points of safety contact, using cheap Indian-pot-metal, etc. The fact that the original version could go off by just dropping it from 4-feet (and that Sig attempted to hide that fact) was bad enough. There are so many better and proven polymer handguns out there so why risk life and limb?
1 posted on 08/18/2026 6:07:40 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Oh, a judge and gunsmith all in one?


2 posted on 08/18/2026 6:12:10 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What SIGs have decent quality, if Indian pot-metal is being used by SIG?


3 posted on 08/18/2026 6:17:56 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“10-minute YouTube videos”

Yeah. That’s authoritative!

I don’t own a Sig of any sort. Not because I think they are bad, just happy with my revolvers and Glock 27 and Hellcat and LCP & LCP Max. Comments at this forum seem to run the gamut but I’d trust it more than a YouTube video on most anything - way too much AI crap and BSers on YouTube:

https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/do-you-own-a-sig-sauer-p-320/113077/33


5 posted on 08/18/2026 6:33:21 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I have a P938 Legion, which I love.


6 posted on 08/18/2026 6:42:16 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: T.B. Yoits
For anyone interested in the original case:

https://www.centralmaine.com/2026/07/27/somerset-county-detectives-lawsuit-against-gunmaker-sig-sauer-heads-to-trial/

And whether it's true or not, there's this line in the article:

"In their opening statements, attorneys focused little on the details of the 2022 shooting. Both sides, based on experts’ opinions, largely agree that a zipper on David Cole’s jacket likely touched the trigger and fired the gun, court records show."

8 posted on 08/18/2026 6:45:04 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’d be wary of YouTube comments sections, if you scroll long enough you see a lot of comments, even more intelligent sounding ones, repeated several times.


9 posted on 08/18/2026 6:45:07 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I owned a P320. While on the range for some advanced training, I was firing at the target when the trigger went soft.

Cleared, reloaded...nothing.

Range safety failed to get it to fire again as well. Finished with a borrowed Glock.

Gunsmith ‘fixed’ it for $80 but they wouldn’t tell me what happened or what they did to repair it. That shop is NLIB resulting from an unrelated investigation.

I promptly traded in the weapon for a new Glock.

I don’t need to elaborate the seriousness of trigger failure - which has NEVER happened, prior or since - when seconds count...

I also can’t speak to the scuttlebutt on ‘AD’ re the P320.

Just the facts, ma’am (as I know them).


13 posted on 08/18/2026 7:33:44 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This sounds like the expert witness hired by Sig was very effective. That’s usually how these cases go.


14 posted on 08/18/2026 7:40:31 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Past time to dust off the old specs and bring back the old dudes that brought the world the venerable colt 1911. Get rid of this cheap chinese junk they’re handing out.


17 posted on 08/18/2026 7:50:23 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“A federal jury in Maine said there were no defects in Sig Sauer’s P320 in a case in an unintended discharge of the firearm.” I’ve never had a problem with my Sig P320.


19 posted on 08/18/2026 8:04:04 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If there are doubts, choose a different weapon.


21 posted on 08/18/2026 8:09:24 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Every p320 negligent discharge turns out to be a trigger pull. Is there any evidence it is defective? None. Is it bad design to have a light, short trigger in a duty/carry gun? I think so.


24 posted on 08/18/2026 8:15:44 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Used P320s have been badmouthed now for quite a while. Perhaps I can pick up on for cheap money!


27 posted on 08/18/2026 8:49:08 AM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Nothing but a bunch of useless commentary and a good handgun (don’t own one). If it were so bad, a LOT of people would be reporting issues with it. It’s all hype. How stupid. When a handgun has a legitimate flaw, it becomes known (i.e. Smith & Wesson Shield 9mm compact - magazines hard to load. Fact. However, gun functions fine. Llama Minimax Subcompact .45 (looks like a Warthog) - continual misfire issues. Very difficult to correct. Fact. And, so forth.)


29 posted on 08/18/2026 9:31:48 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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30 posted on 08/18/2026 10:53:10 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Someone asked me for a sig, and I told him that I don't smoke...
Sorry... A 93-year-old doesn't have much of a sense of humor...
33 posted on 08/18/2026 11:19:02 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’m still not buying a P320. I only want my pistol to go bang when I pull the trigger.


36 posted on 08/18/2026 12:49:12 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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