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Glock has been quietly working on a new design that employs a rotating bolt barrel-lockup system for a European client that does not require pulling the trigger to disassemble the pistol, but with Glock holding almost 65 per cent of the police market in the U.S. Glock’s bid came in at slightly more than $100 million higher, on a possible total program cost of $580 million.
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#SIG SAUER PISTOLS SKIN#
The P320’s skeleton frame with a polymer skin is cheaper to manufacture than the Glock entry with full polymer frame and imbedded hardened steel slide rails. Ultimately, however, the final M17 pistol selection simply came down to the lowest bidder. Military XM17 pistol trials, Sig touted one of the advantages of the P320 over the Glock was that the user didn’t need to pull the trigger to field-strip the pistol. Slow-motion video from Sig’s own tests show how the upgraded parts lighten the overall weight of the trigger components and prevent the trigger from moving enough to the rear to discharge, but they still show the trigger moving.ĭuring the U.S. The P320, unlike the Glock or S&W M&P, has no trigger safety. The videos clearly showed how the trigger moves to the rear when dropped. I had an opportunity to handle a P320 pistol and to study the drop test videos which support the fact that the pistol will likely fire on its own if dropped from about one metre onto concrete, landing directly onto the back of its slide. (Obviously, they have not seen the videos of Glocks dropped from helicopters.) In spite of the fact that Sig was able to reproduce the situation that causes the pistols to fire on their own when dropped and has started manufacturing an “enhanced trigger” system, they refuse to call this a “recall.” Sig maintains the P320 met all the safety standards in place at the time of manufacture and the CEO has stated that “no pistol is totally drop-safe.” Sig recommends users always carry the pistol with an empty chamber. military Modular Handgun System (MHS) over Glock in early 2017. military after Sig Sauer recently won the competition for the U.S.
#SIG SAUER PISTOLS UPGRADE#
The voluntary upgrade program affects all law enforcement and civilian-owned Sig P320 pistols, but does not affect the first batch of M17 pistols delivered to the U.S.
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I recommend all owners and agencies immediately suspend the use of all P320 pistols until they can be sent back to the factory. Other agencies such as North Dakota Highway Patrol and Santa Barbara Police have removed the P320 from their approved pistol list.
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agencies such as Dallas Police have now officially issued a recall of all P320 pistols. One Connecticut police officer was shot in the leg when his P320 accidentally hit the ground and subsequently fired, and U.S. While reported incidents are rare, several online websites have been able to easily recreate the situation that would cause the pistol to discharge if dropped. When dropped at an angle that allows the pistol to strike a hard surface such as concrete on the rear of the slide at a 30-degree angle to the bore axis, the pistol may discharge.