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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Don’t be a bastid, there is a story there. Give. What bloody avalanche?
Oh, oh, I get it. This story is like the one recommended to me: “all my guns were lost in a tragic boating accident, gun confiscator officer.”
OYOH, if you live in Kansas, your story lacks some credibility. Yes, there are earthquakes in the midwest, but damned few avalanches.
I rely on double action and a firing pin block. Drop test induced discharge required more than enough force the destroy the firearm and squish the user, so I’m confident it’s fine for EDC while chambered. A while back I was thinking about getting a P320 and decided against it for the reason the article cited. Generally I prefer to control my environment to avoid the risk of my own error. Sadly will never get a Glock pistol, though I have a carbine that takes Glock 17 mags ( I have like 10+ heheh).
So you have to cycle the slide for the first shot?
Yes.
This is also a good thing because the thought that a misfire can be corrected by pulling the trigger and hitting the primer again 99.99% never works. It is best to cycle the slide, eject that failed round, and load a new round. So, go click, nothing happens, ya gotta cycle the slide to load a new round and cock the firing pin.
I can live with that.
I still like my DA/SA better, but it’s all personal choice.
I agree, it is a good practice. That extremely tight split second need they argue is very very rare. Maybe if you are LE and pulling folks over all day long as a living. Any other normal carry situations you are not going to be presented with that very critical split second issue. Being safer 99.999 % of the time is much more important to me. But if I think I am indeed going into a situation where that “might” make a difference, I make it ready.
When George Zimmerman was getting his head pounded into the concrete he did not have time to rack the slide.......
Someone might make a suggestion that you not do that!
With most auto-pistols, you have to cycle the slide to chamber the first round. Let's assume the trigger is then pulled but the gun does not fire, because that first round is a 'dud'. What happens if you pull the trigger a second time? With what some folks call "true DAO", the second trigger pull will produce a second full-power impact by the firing pin/striker on the primer. Some "double action" automatics will do that; others apparently will not, until the slide has cycled a second time...
I’ve scouted the Reddit Sig sub and not a lot of chatter has gone up on this lately.
My wife’s P365 was like that before a javalina took it off her and ran off into the Chihuahua desert.
True! IIRC, it was part of some miltary trial or LE pre-purchase safety test. A "Glock guy" might be able to provide details...
;^)
That's a cheap shot. Of course you do. You know what I meant. DA/SA can have one in the chamber without being cocked and all you have to do is pull the trigger for the first shot. All I wanted to know is if you had to cycle the slide to cock your gun. No value judgement. It's personal choice. My choice is DA/SA. Yours is not. Fine.
What was the correction?
I, too prefer DA/SA. I’ve been casually trying to find a Sig M11A1. Looks like a winner.
[[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]]
They are forcing people to take vaccines with known safety issues, and a growing body of evidence to that effect.
I have a hard time understanding how this is even possible. Well, regardless, I don’t keep one in the chamber so I’m not going to sweat it.
Liar.
I once walked into a sig saur gun shop, and it was like stepping into downtown Chicago, guns were shooting each other left and right. Must have been gang initiation day in the shop,or something. needless to say I left and found a shop that sold brands that won’t wake up one day, and decide that they don’t like me anymore and do me in for no good reason.
This is why there aren’t any sig saur p320 repair shops. The guns are dropped off, and as soon as the gunsmith turns his back on the gun, whammo, it’s curtains.
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