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 ...
No safety on the civilian P320 as far as I know.
Obviously, you have a defective gun. You need to promptly sent that back into the factory to have it checked out.
Audi was first, then Toyota.
the upgrade program is to insert the index finger of the other hand in the barrel to prevent accidental firing.
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.
Toyota is extremely paranoid about that now. Part of their scheduled maintenance procedure is to verify that the correct floor mats are correctly installed.
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.
“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?
Give it a few more years. Ya never know.
Thanks for the chuckle!
In a life and situation a safety can be what gets you kilt.
Doesn’t the 320 have a block between the pin and striker?
Don’t put a round in the chamber if you are going to aim it at yourself.
Put some 2x6 out there too
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I knew it. Its those guns.
And the Audi 5000 models from the mid 80s
Brother Mouzone: I see you favor a .45.
Omar: At night I do. And I keeps one in the chamber in case you ponderin’.
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
Here is the Touota one https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-releases-results-nhtsa-nasa-study-unintended-acceleration
Yep. I was thinking bad trigger discipline.
John Browning’s design of 113 years ago is still good enough for me.
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