SIG SAUER - it ends today!

SIG SAUER today issued a bold and aggressive defense against accusations that the P320 pistol suffers from an inherently unsafe design flaw. Declaring, "It ends today", the company issued a statement entitled "The Truth About the P320" which defends both the pistol and the company against the numerous accusations and lawsuits they've been subject to over the past 8 years. 

In 2018, SIG reached an out-of-court settlement with two police officers who claimed that their department-issued P320s discharged without them having pulled the trigger. A class-action lawsuit related to P320s manufactured before August 2017 was also settled. This was followed by SIG launching a voluntary recall and free upgrade program in August 2017 for owners of pistols bought before that date, and some minor changes were made to pistols manufactured after that date to match the upgrade program.

For many people, these actions were an admission of fault by SIG SAUER and have fanned the flames of debate and controversy about the P320 ever since - leading to more than one hundred individuals claiming injuries and filing lawsuits against the company for allegedly selling a defective product. All of this also negatively impacted the P320's reputation and created a situation where the company has been forced to continually defend both itself and its product in the court of public opinion - despite versions of the pistol design being chosen through a challenging selection competition to become the US military's new standard sidearm in 2017. HERE are all P320 variants at SIG SAUER.

Today SIG SAUER decided that enough was enough and issued the following statement:

The Truth About the SIG P320

"The P320 CANNOT, under any circumstances, discharge without a trigger pull – that is a fact. The allegations against the P320 are nothing more than individuals seeking to profit or avoid personal responsibility.

Recently, anti-gun groups, members of the mainstream media, trial attorneys, and other uninformed and agenda-driven parties have launched attacks on one of SIG SAUER’s most trusted, most tested, and most popular products - the P320 pistol.  In all cases, these individuals have an ulterior motive behind their baseless allegations that the P320 can fire without a trigger pull; they have no evidence, no data and no empirical testing to support any of their claims. They instead choose to misrepresent clear, negligent discharges as a “design problem.”

In the decade since its introduction, the P320 has undergone the most rigorous testing and evaluation of any firearm, by military and law enforcement agencies around the world.  It consistently delivers a proven record of performance and reliability through state-of-the-art engineering, and documented quality control at every stage of its production. Claims that unintended discharges are anything more than negligent handling and/or manufactured lies to support an anti-gun, anti-SIG agenda are false.  Furthermore, lawsuits claiming that the P320 is capable of firing without the trigger being pulled have been dismissed in courtrooms around the country.  In addition, multiple plaintiffs’ so-called experts have conceded, it is not possible for the P320 to discharge unless the trigger is fully actuated.

The rhetoric is high, and we can no longer stay silent while lawsuits run their course, and clickbait farming, engagement hacking grifters continue their campaign to highjack the truth for profit. Enough is enough.  From the courts of law to the court of public opinion we will combat the lies and misinformation with the truth.  SIG SAUER stands behind the quality, safety, and design of all our products – especially the P320.

Industry, take notice; what’s happening today to SIG SAUER with the anti-gun mob and their lawfare tactics will happen tomorrow at another firearms manufacturer, and then another.  Today, for SIG SAUER - it ends."

Do you own a SIG P320? What has your experience been? What are your thoughts on this controversy?