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Posted on 08/07/2021 7:34:15 AM PDT by PROCON
TAMPA, Fla. - A Tampa Police Reserve Officer says his department-issued service weapon fired without pulling the trigger, seriously injuring him. The 30-year veteran of the force is now suing the company that manufactures the firearm.
Last February, Bob Northrop was working an extra duty assignment as a TPD Reserve Officer patrolling Jefferson High School during a baseball game. Northrop says he was standing just feet from students and their families when his hand brushed his holstered service weapon.
"And the very second I touched the gun, it discharged," Northrop said. "I tried to take another step and I couldn't."
The 69-year-old needed emergency surgery after a 9mm hollow-point bullet shattered his leg and ankle, causing permanent injuries.
Northrop’s legal team represents nearly two-dozen people across the nation whose P320s fired without pulling the trigger. They say Sig Sauer knows about the firearm’s defective design and is being negligent.
"I am emphatic that I didn't do anything illegal against the rules, against policy, or anything else," said Northrop. "That gun discharged by itself."
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Northrop’s legal team represents nearly two-dozen people across the nation whose P320s fired without pulling the trigger. They say Sig Sauer knows about the firearm’s defective design and is being negligent.
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I handle these guns on a daily basis, I am skeptical.
Personally I carry hammer fired guns with a thumb safety so I know it can’t go off.
Well shoot...
Well, I don’t know much of anything about guns, but even I have heard of the brand Sig Sauer.
One would think if they were selling a gun with safety defects known by dozens of people, it would quickly be taken off the market. Who wants that kind of liability?
Meat processing companies are forced to do recalls all of the time. Often tons of costly product simply has to be thrown out to make landfill. They have to eat the loss.
Don’t know which gun it was but Sig did release a gun that can fire when it shouldn’t. They have been sued and lost before on this. They hade to update the gun design to fix it.
This is apparently an issue. A number of gun channels still left on YT have talked about it in recent months although I thought Sig did a recall to fix the problem.
I seem to remember there was a recall on this weapon early on. But it had to do with the drop safety being defective. The weapon would go off if dropped on a hard surface. Short of the Japanese nambu, I havent heard of a pistol that would fire just by brushing it. Something is missing from this puzzle.
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The P320 had a problem with going off if dropped, but that’s not what is being alleged here. The weapon was holstered and went off when the officer ‘brushed’ it — so he says.
Probably why the US Army insisted on a manual safety.
Many years ago there was a case before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a similar situation. The SCOTUS had ruled in favor of the gun manufacturer.
In a later, and different case involving the same model, it was discovered that the manufacturer had committed fraud upon the court by withholding discovery in the first case.
The plaintiff in the first case then submitted a motion for reversal of his case based on the fraud upon the court in the second case. His motion was denied because he had lost at the SCOTUS, but his motion was eventually heard by the SCOTUS.
The very important ruling by the SCOTUS was that if a lower court discovered fraud upon the court, the lower court was not bound by the earlier SCOTUS decision.
A Gunsmith examined the piece and the brass that did not eject. There was no strike mark on the primer but some heat bubbles from the firing and the weapon was found to be working normally. The end result was the smith surmised that the primer had not seated 100% properly and with it on half cock, sliding it into the holster had moved the slide allowing the slide to contact the rear of the round just right to fire.
I sure loved my P365 before I lost in in the avalanche.
as am I.
operator error?
Stoopid operator?
Drugs or alcohol?
Lot of other possibilities.
Never seen a gun shoot itself.
Not believing this for one second.
I have a P320 and I am totally calling BS on this. There is no touch or ‘brush’ of the gun that can set it off. None. It was also tested by the military after thousands of hours and never was this ‘defect’ discovered.
I know nothing about guns but I am suspicious too.
Of course he’s going to claim that he handled the gun perfectly.
Since there’s a lawsuit, the truth will come out.
As a lawyer, I certainly hope so.
Those darn avalanches! Pesky things!
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