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Popular handgun fires without anyone pulling the trigger, victims say
WaPo via SFGate ^ | 4/11/2023 | By Champe Barton and Tom Jackman

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; handgun; shooting; sigsauer; trigger
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To: OldWarBaby

No safety on the civilian P320 as far as I know.


21 posted on 04/11/2023 1:46:37 PM PDT by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: I cannot think of a name
My SIG 226 has sat in a drawer near my front door, fully loaded, and hasn’t gone off in the last 23 years.???

Obviously, you have a defective gun. You need to promptly sent that back into the factory to have it checked out.

22 posted on 04/11/2023 1:46:39 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Not my fault, yer Honor. I went to the Alec Baldwin School of Firearms Handling. )
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To: Dr. Sivana

Audi was first, then Toyota.


23 posted on 04/11/2023 1:47:10 PM PDT by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: ConservativeInPA

the upgrade program is to insert the index finger of the other hand in the barrel to prevent accidental firing.


24 posted on 04/11/2023 1:47:14 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: NohSpinZone

And if it can be proven to be true, victims can quite certainly sue SIG Sauer for damages in spite of the lies Democrats like to tell.


25 posted on 04/11/2023 1:49:12 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ltc8k6

Toyota is extremely paranoid about that now. Part of their scheduled maintenance procedure is to verify that the correct floor mats are correctly installed.


26 posted on 04/11/2023 1:49:47 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: NohSpinZone

I’ve been keeping a hammer lying on my patio for 15 years.

I was hoping it would build a deck if I left it alone but I’m beginning to have doubts.


27 posted on 04/11/2023 1:49:50 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: teeman8r

“insert the index finger of the other hand in the barrel to prevent accidental firing”

I thought if you did that, it could still fire, but the barrel would just explode and split into five or six curly pieces of iron?


28 posted on 04/11/2023 1:50:23 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bratch

Give it a few more years. Ya never know.

Thanks for the chuckle!


29 posted on 04/11/2023 1:51:20 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: OldWarBaby

In a life and situation a safety can be what gets you kilt.


30 posted on 04/11/2023 1:53:10 PM PDT by saturn
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To: NohSpinZone

Doesn’t the 320 have a block between the pin and striker?


31 posted on 04/11/2023 1:53:16 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Don’t put a round in the chamber if you are going to aim it at yourself.


32 posted on 04/11/2023 1:56:21 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Bratch

Put some 2x6 out there too

😛😛😛🤣


33 posted on 04/11/2023 1:58:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: NohSpinZone

I knew it. Its those guns.


34 posted on 04/11/2023 2:00:51 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Dandy

And the Audi 5000 models from the mid 80s


35 posted on 04/11/2023 2:01:20 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: AppyPappy

Brother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.

Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin’.


36 posted on 04/11/2023 2:06:06 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: wjcsux
Don't assume it's the shooters' fault.

https://www.concealedcarry.com/firearms-ownership/is-the-sig-sauer-p320-handgun-safe-to-carry-or-can-it-fire-on-its-own/

In this article, they reference an incident where a P320 fired after returned to the holster at a shooting competition with witnesses who confirmed the shooter did not have his hand on the gun.

The P320 was sent back to Sig Sauer who apparently cited a defective firing pin return spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBjo62vSYZk

37 posted on 04/11/2023 2:11:23 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Dr. Sivana

Here is the Touota one https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-releases-results-nhtsa-nasa-study-unintended-acceleration


38 posted on 04/11/2023 2:11:53 PM PDT by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: wjcsux

Yep. I was thinking bad trigger discipline.


39 posted on 04/11/2023 2:13:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: NohSpinZone

John Browning’s design of 113 years ago is still good enough for me.


40 posted on 04/11/2023 2:16:49 PM PDT by CMSMC
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