Could someone please saw down this rifle barrel for me?
The P320. It ends today. pic.twitter.com/bZZMXGKK1v
— SIG SAUER (@sigsauerinc) March 7, 2025
SIG Sauer is a Swiss weapons manufacturer with an American branch that just recently won the contract to build the next rifle for the US military. The American branch is also infamous for developing the P320, a semi-automatic pistol with features like no other - it fires when it shouldn't.
For starters, the P320 already had an early design issue, in that it could fire if dropped, which no modern pistol should do.
SIG Sauer did announce an upgrade for all P320s several years back to fix this drop issue, but in doing so, may have somehow introduced a new issue where it can accidentally discharge.
https://www.thetrace.org/2023/04/sig-sauer-p320-upgrade-safety/ (This is from an anti-gun source, but does include a few gifs of incidents where the gun went off along with an animation of the design).
Are a good chunk of these probably people negligently discharging or something getting stuck in the holster? Probably, but there are a few suspect incidents that make it seem otherwise.
In any case, for no random reason, SIG Sauer releases that statement yesterday.
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In other news, Boeing released a statement saying that their planes are totally safe and fine and absolutely nothing is wrong with their manufacturing and quality assurance processes.
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The SIG Sauer and P320 subreddits rush to SIG's defense.
https://old.reddit.com/r/SigSauer/comments/1j5ykn3/looks_like_sig_had_enough/
I keep waiting for a P320 that has had an "uncommanded discharge" to be analyzed to demonstrate what went wrong to cause it to go off.
Conspicuously, it's NEVER EVER been done. Like, it would be the simplest, most obvious and objective way to settle the issue once and for all. There should be completely irrefutable material evidence in every single one of these instances. A broken striker tab... a misshapen sear (well, two sears, since it has a 2nd sear in case of failure of the first one)... a firing pin block that sticks in the open position... But completely bizarrely - no such evidence has ever been put forward.
The total lack of evidence of a faulty firing mechanism is almost as conspicuous as it being basically only cops that have "uncommanded discharges".
Ever notice how nearly every single incident involving the P320 was by a cop? π€
https://old.reddit.com/r/P320/comments/1j64je3/looks_like_sig_had_enough/
For all the ones that have fired on their own is there any commonality between them?
I have tested mine and nothing, seen a bunch of other people testing theirs with no results, and it has me curious as to what the point of failure is?
Yeah. User error
Good for Sig
CCW and firearms are little more confrontational.
https://old.reddit.com/r/CCW/comments/1j67mi1/sig_sauer_statement_on_the_p320/
They really went in and hit every buzzword lol. Anti-gun groups, mainstream media, clickbait farmers, grifters, all chose to go after not just one company but one firearm model. Agenda driven, rhetoric, "highjack the truth". Give me a fricking break. This reads like an AI press release.
Sig sounds kinda sauer about it all.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/1j61m1l/well_this_interesting/
The sig subreddit is literally blaming everything but the gun from the holster to weather conditions it's concerning how much they fanboy.
It's also hard to claim it's a flawless gun if you rolled out a voluntary recall program lmao.
The hair around my butthole has a greater level of intelligence than that sub.
Anyways, there's no issue. Make sure to buy their $2.5k rifle with an "in spec" gap between the upper and lower receiver!
https://old.reddit.com/r/NFA/comments/1ifbath/the_gap_between_your_mcx_or_mcx_lt_is_in_fact/
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omg! !firearms i know for a fact that literally all da/sa 22x pistols are not drop safe, and If you drop a da/sa 22x on its barrel while loaded, even with the hammer not cocked, it can slam fire without pulling the trigger, and The safety that prevents the hammer from falling without depressing the trigger is disabled by the shock and the hammer is able to drop and impact the firing pin hard enough to fire, and This has happened to me personally while running while carrying a 229, and This can pretty much like only happen when the pistol falls straight down on the barrel, so it fires totally into the pavement
I just think it's funny that So should I video this happening again and frick with sig???
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Ive got a 228, and Should I drop it on the barrel to test this???? and thats the tea, sis
im literally screaming,
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I just think it's funny that What do you have to lose???
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Dont forget to post recording to carps favorite site and its EVERYTHING
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Im going to take mine to my buddies house soon and try and film it, and He has a field down in a bottom it should be safe to film it since you cant predict what direction the shrapnel will fly
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throw it barrel-forward at your enemies
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i feel like But then the barrel is going to be pointing at the ground (which is a safe direction) so firing a round isnt a big deal
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I was running full speed toward some malfunctioning equipment so I was 10-15 feet away when it hit the ground and I still got brass shrapnel in my arm (lightly but it drew blood), and It will never be recalled bc its probably not going to kill anyone, but it isnt safe to have it happen, and Scary as shit
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