Sig’s Problems Just Got Far Worse
BY Herschel Smith
12 hours, 58 minutes ago
This is probably what’s happening to the P320. By the way, I don’t have a single pistol in my locker named Sig, and I don’t have a single pistol in my locker that has the tolerance issues between the slide and frame that the P320 does.
For those of you that say, “Well, he’s using a screw,” you’re missing the point. Watch the whole video before commenting or I’ll delete the comment. It’s getting hung on the sear if pre-tension has been applied as pointed out in the FBI report. Or there are manufacturing tolerance issues that could do the same thing.
Either way, this is a horrid, awful, terrible design. I would be ashamed to have my name on it. But not Sig, who has sued in court to block Washington’s police academy ban on P320s.
On July 28, 2025 at 12:31 am, Bill Buppert said:
Did you know that Ron Cohen, CEO of Sig, (former CEO of Kimber, left for Sig in 2005) has a suspended 22 month prison sentence and fines topping $1 million in Germany for what is essentially arms trafficking when they took guns built in Germany to ship 40k guns to Columbia between 2009 and 2011 by sending to the US and then shipping to Columbia to avoid a ban on guns from Germany to Columbia (2019)?
In 2009, Sig Sauer signed a deal worth up to $300 million to deliver weapons to the National Police Force of Colombia.
Cohen plea deal in Germany: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2019-02-28/reports-sig-sauer-ceo-takes-plea-deal-in-german-arms-case
On July 28, 2025 at 2:45 am, Robert Landwehr said:
Modern two hand grip technique with pistols is being taught that both thumbs are on the same side of the slide, on atop the other. Ostensibly, neither actually contacts the slide. However, I have considerable first hand experience observing students ignoring instruction from their instructor. Even experienced, military trained persons do things contrary to instruction.
To wit, conduct the same case loaded magazine, chambered primed case setup, with the less than one mm travel. However, assume the grip, and determine if thumb pressure laterally on the slide will produce a primer strike.
On July 28, 2025 at 8:04 am, Herschel Smith said:
@Robert,
That’s a curious prescription. Hold the slide stationary with the grip rather than press down on the front of the slide (as if it was being jostled around by movement or reholstering) so that the failure doesn’t occur.
Not sure what the point of such a test would be. The failure occurs with slide movement. Stopping the slide movement is contrary to the design of the gun. It’s not the job of the shooter to prevent a failure mode with his grip.
The P320 is a crappy, dangerous design.
On July 28, 2025 at 9:09 am, george 1 said:
How many of them have this set of issues? We know it is not just one or two. If I owned a gun store I would test every P320 in a similar manner before I sold any. Better yet just send all of them back to Sig. Owners of these pistols should discontinue use and have the weapon undergo a technical inspection at the minimum. Sig should recall all of them immediately.
However I think at least in some cases it is worse than shown here. There is plenty of documentation of these pistols going off in Safariland holsters. Not likely any trigger take up is possible while the weapon is in such a holster. How is it possible that a company with the resources of Sig Sauer, in this day and age, can design, engineer and produce a pistol with a flaw like this?
On July 28, 2025 at 10:02 am, Dirk Williams said:
Can anybody tell me if this issue impacts the 365 micro?
Dirk