oh yeah, i dont even shoot and i know the P320 is having a bad one right now, and no doubt someone will made a video explaining why they seem to be discharging on their own and i will watch them
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Me, acting smug when I know I can't afford one anyway.
this has been a problem for a while now yeah? iirc it's been a topic of discussion for at least a year, probably more
i'd say i can't believe they haven't fixed this shit yet but i completely can
I want to say 7 or 8 years.
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Just checked my serial with the voluntary upgrade program and says mine's already fixed, i guess.
My partner and I both have p320s and they shoot so good but yeah...not a great track record.
I expect to see a lot more Dateline episodes containing this firearm.
Like a month ago SIG was crashing out on social media blaming the mainstream media and their anti-gun agenda for smearing the P320's reputation
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is completely new to me. What's causing them to fire? I mean, a gun sitting on its own on a night stand can sit there for 1,000 years and never go off. That's still a valid assumption, right?
from the wiki
Unlike other striker-fired guns, the P320 is "effectively fully cocked at rest", since its striker is under constant spring pressure, which is released when the trigger is pulled. Most such guns, including the P320's military variant, have external safeties (like thumb safeties), which the P320's civilian variant lacks. According to gunsmith James Tertin, this is a rare and "uniquely dangerous" configuration. Sean Toner, the P320 designer, has acknowledged in court that "U.S. standards are not very stringent."
This seems to be an issue with this gun specifically, there are at least a hundred incidents of misfires and drop fires that have been reported around this gun and there's a bunch of lawsuits related to it, but I'm not aware of any industry-wide increase in incidents.
effectively fully cocked at rest
Sean Toner sounds like a dipshit.