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Friday, November 22, 2024
JURY AGREES THAT SIG PISTOL WENT OFF BY ITSELF, AWARDS $11 MILLION
By Bob Walsh
SIG has had some issues with its P320 pistol. The pistol
is used by not a few police and other government agencies as well as
being popular with private owners. A jury in Philadelphia has agreed
that one of these weapons went off by itself in the holster shooting the
wearing in the leg, the second such verdict covering this particular
weapon type. The three week trial resulted in an award of $11 million
in damages against the New Hampshire. This suit was filed in 2022.
The
jury agreed that the weapon and holster (which was also a SIG-SAUER
product) are defective and prone to go off by itself without the trigger
being pulled. There have been over 100 such complaints. SIG disputes
the assertion.
Earlier in
this year a federal jury awarded $2.35 million to a Georgia man was was
injured when a holstered SIG P320 discharged. The same legal firm,
Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, represented both plaintiffs and represents a
significant number of similar plaintiffs. SIG has announced that it is
appealing this particular verdict.
The version of this pistol has a manual safety which is NOT present on pistols sold to other buyers.
SIG
has settled at least one class-action suit in federal court involving
the P320 pistols made prior to 2017. SIG offered refunds or replacement
guns to those who purchased them.
Several police agencies have dumped their SIGS due to these issues.
A couple of typos. My bad. The thing about the manual safety refers to those pistols purchased by the U. S. military which are not available on the general commercial market. Too much Green Death with my Wheaties for breakfast I guess.
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A couple of typos. My bad. The thing about the manual safety refers to those pistols purchased by the U. S. military which are not available on the general commercial market. Too much Green Death with my Wheaties for breakfast I guess.
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