Sig Sauer, faced with lawsuits over a popular pistol, gets protection in New Hampshire
Sig Sauer, faced with lawsuits over a popular pistol, gets protection in New Hampshire
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Sig Sauer, faced with lawsuits over a popular pistol, gets protection in New Hampshire
Supporters in the Republican-led Legislature said the law was needed to help a major employer. The lawsuits say Sig Sauer’s P320 pistol can go off without the trigger being pulled, an allegation the company denies.
The law covers all gun manufacturers and federal firearm licensees in product liability claims regarding the “absence or presence” of four specific safety features. One of those features is an external mechanical safety that people suing Sig Sauer say should be standard on the P320, based on its design. Claims can still be filed over manufacturing defects.
This is a weird case because the p320 did pass the required drop test.
You drop it X amount of times, from Y height, at A, B, and C angles.
The p320 won't go off, and passes the test
But drop it from a couple inches higher, at a specific (but not tested) angle... And it might go off.
The problem, like usual, is cops.
Cops always have a shit ton of negligent discharges. So when people said a p320 can just "go off" every negligent discharge with a p320 was blamed on the gun. Even when the incident was on camera and didn't involve a drop.
Cops just lie about shit instinctively.
Until 2021 NYPD cops required 12 pound trigger pulls to prevent accidental discharges, but which also reduced accuracy and led to shooting bystanders.
Now they switched to five pound pulls and their guns start going off randomly?
Really this has been tested long enough that our conclusion should be "cops shouldn't carry guns"
It's quite possible these guns really are just going off due to stacked tolerances. ForgottenWeapons did a good video on the theory.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWVs2uD1XY