SIG Sauer is firing back after New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) filed a complaint against the company, alleging safety issues with its popular P320 pistol.
In a statement released October 17, SIG Sauer called the complaint “false and unsubstantiated,” and said the Attorney General’s claims misrepresent both military testing and federal safety standards.
AG Platkin asserted that the U.S. Army’s Modular Handgun System (MHS) program deemed the P320 unsafe without a manual safety and rejected SIG’s bid.
SIG Sauer directly refuted that, noting the MHS program required all entries to include manual safeties and that any firearm deemed unsafe would have been immediately disqualified. Instead, SIG Sauer was awarded the contract for the Army’s official sidearm.
The company also pushed back on the AG’s citation of an FBI Ballistics Research Facility report. SIG Sauer said the report never found that the P320 could fire without trigger pressure and added that follow-up tests with both the FBI and Michigan State Police produced “zero failures.”
The Michigan State Police continues to issue P320 pistols to its officers.
According to SIG Sauer, nearly twenty P320-related lawsuits have already been dismissed, and plaintiffs’ experts have repeatedly failed to replicate an uncommanded discharge. The company plans to seek dismissal of the New Jersey complaint as well.
“The P320 pistol is one of the safest, most advanced pistols in the world,” the statement reads. “It meets and exceeds all industry safety standards.”
SIG Sauer says the P320 has undergone extensive military and law enforcement testing since its introduction in 2014, including use by multiple global military forces.
For further details, the company has launched P320Truth.com, a website dedicated to addressing misinformation surrounding the firearm.
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