Posted on 04/11/2023 1:21:01 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
One warm afternoon in May, Dwight Jackson was getting dressed for a visit to his favorite cigar lounge. He slipped his holstered SIG Sauer P320 pistol onto his belt, put on a button-down shirt and leaned across his bed for his wallet. Suddenly, he said, the gun fired, sending a bullet tearing through his right buttock and into his left ankle.
"I heard 'bang!'" said Jackson, 47, a locomotive engineer who lives in Locust Grove, Ga. "I looked down and saw blood."
His wife heard the shot from down the hall and screamed. She called an ambulance while Jackson hobbled toward the front door, painting a trail of blood over the hardwood floors.
The P320 is one of the nation's most popular handguns. A variant of the weapon is the standard-issue sidearm for every branch of the U.S. military. Since its introduction to the commercial market in 2014, manufacturer SIG Sauer has sold the P320 to hundreds of thousands of civilians, and the gun has been used by officers at more than a thousand law enforcement agencies across the nation, court records show.
It has also gruesomely injured scores of people who say the gun has a potentially deadly defect.
More than 100 people allege that their P320 pistols discharged when they did not pull the trigger, an eight-month investigation by The Washington Post and The Trace has found. At least 80 people were wounded in the shootings, which date to 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The pistol also sneers as it pulls its own trigger.
Sounds like the Toyotas that used to accelerate by themselves.
Hardwood cleans up. At least the carpet wasn’t ruined.
I thought there was a “voluntary recall” to get this fixed around four or five years ago.
“WaPo via SFGate”
I’m sure there’s no agenda đ
Probably dumbshits bolstering their pistol with their finger on the trigger.
So loading, cocking, holstering/un-holstering a pistol causes a problem? who knew? Pointing the thing at your own butt adds a nice touch.
My SIG 226 has sat in a drawer near my front door, fully loaded, and hasn’t gone off in the last 23 years.???
From at least what I understand the recall was a “drop safe” issue, not a “glock leg issue”.
——aaaannnnddd putting a safety on is way too much trouble?
Or arick barwin defense?
No comment. Everyone here beat me to it..........Dammit.
SIG Sauer has not issued a recall on the P320, but if I recall correctly (thatâs a pun) they have some type of upgrade program.
"I come in Peace/Dark Angel White Boys reference? d;^)
People never think a holster can jam up the trigger.
Kinda.....the recall was to resolve an issue with dropping the firearm at a very specific angle, causing the weapon to discharge.
Bkmk
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