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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Yes and to put the icing on the lawsuit cake, he was the presence of children!
No idea whether the SIG in question has issues or not, but generally speaking, not every firearm design is without flaws from ‘day one’. Taurua had a major recall of their early striker-fired guns a few years back; even Glock did not achieve their advertised “perfection” with their first gen pistols (which could reportedly fire if ‘frisbeed’ across a room ;^)...
Meant to ping you but couldn’t remember your exact name. :)
Hammer fired, I assume.
Locked & cocked? No safety?
What you wanna bet Officer Northrop had his sear “touched” up?
But still I guess it could be an issue with a safety. I assume the Sig has more than one. Trigger? Thumb? Grip?
I know my lowly striker fired daily carried weapon has two safeties.
I once owned a brand new SKS - reportedly one of the most reliable firearms on the planet - that, under certain circumstances, could fire with nothing touching the trigger, when the safety was moved from 'safe' to 'fire'. I corrected the issue, but never fully trusted it after that, and sold it years ago...
P320 is striker fired.
No external safety on most models.
The US Army insisted on a manual safety on the ones they bought.
If you are not going to holster the 1911 cocked and locked then lower the hammer ALL THE WAY DOWN on the frame. The firing pin is inertial and will not touch the firing pin unless cocked and fired or if it slips off of half cock. Hammer all the way down is called condition 2 and is a safe way to carry though loading the hammer is not the safest thing to do and should be done pointed at a safe backstop
Oops - “Taurua” = Taurus
Striker-fired guns make me queasy.
DAO is their only advantage.
I’ll take double-single any day of the week. Yes, the trigger pull is different on subsequent shots, but handguns are not MOA firearms anyway.
If you want DAO, a revolver works, and it only fires when you pull the trigger.
Hmmm, it is possible, I suppose. IMO, it’s about as likely as the gun walking into a mom and pop store and robbing the place all by itself, but it is possible. I just hope the court rules testimony from those given to UFO fantasies inadmissible, else every anti-gun loon in the country will be clamoring to take the stand.
And this is why I never carry locked and loaded unless I am in a possible immediate danger condition. Only takes less than a second to slide one in.
Sear creep as rare as it is, can never be ruled out on certain firearms.
I believe Sig did institute a voluntary recall on these awhile ago but not everyone took advantage of it.
I own an SKS now. Perhaps it was one of the ones with the stamped trigger group, instead of the forged one? I seem to recall early problems with those.
CC
That is a positive/negative sear issue with some SKS productions. To those in the know it is a simple fix to make it positive. Hard to apply strict precision quality controls with a mass produced battle rifle because parameters change as factory tooling wears.
Not all striker-fired guns are what some folks call "true DAO" (meaning they can be fired simply by pulling the trigger, like a DA revolver). Many require that the slide be cycled between each trigger pull, which is a lot more similar to single action...
See #24. Mine was fine, but I worked it to more positive just to make sure I had no creep if it was jostled around a bit.
There are a couple videos on how to do this.
“DAO is their only advantage.”
The P320 is single action not DAO. Gotta shack it to cock the firing pin. Many strikers at that way. The trigger does not cock the it like a DAO revolver.
Sorry... My mistake... #34
So you have to cycle the slide for the first shot like in the movies?
I agree, I also carry a Glock, either a G19 or G43 without a chambered round, like you say it only takes a second to chamber a round.
Of course there's others who will disagree and say when seconds count, etc.
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