Bruzilla
Well-Known Member
Leave it to the Army to make yet another bad acquisition decision. The Army decided to adopt the Sig P320, aka M-17, pistol in January, and all the legal hurdles to that process were cleared late last month. Now we're finding out the pistol has a nasty habit of going bang when it is dropped. How this fact was missed during testing is a mystery to me, but Sig is saying the discharges occur when a pistol is dropped "beyond US standards for safety". So I guess if the test standard was there could be no discharges when dropped from two feet, if you drop your gun from 25" and it blows a hole in something that's okay???
You would think that the Army would have learned from all the unintentional discharges with cops and Glocks that having a striker-fired pistol is a really bad idea, but I guess they haven't figured that out yet.
http://taskandpurpose.com/sigs-p320-armys-new-handgun-fire-multiple-reports-safety-defects/
You would think that the Army would have learned from all the unintentional discharges with cops and Glocks that having a striker-fired pistol is a really bad idea, but I guess they haven't figured that out yet.
http://taskandpurpose.com/sigs-p320-armys-new-handgun-fire-multiple-reports-safety-defects/
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