Documents detail U.S. soldiers shot by their own Sig Sauer guns; military says no reason for concern

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Documents detail U.S. soldiers shot by their own Sig Sauer guns; military says no reason for concern (www.nhpr.org)

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>Around lunchtime on Feb. 8, 2023, inside an administrative office at Fort Eustis in Virginia, a sergeant with the Army’s 221st Military Police Detachment stood chatting with his supervisor. Another soldier on his way to an office refrigerator tried to squeeze past the sergeant in a narrow hallway. That’s when their gun holsters made contact. “All I remember was the clanking” of the two holsters, the sergeant would later tell an Army investigator, according to a military report, “and [the] gun shot.” A bullet from the sergeant’s own gun ripped through his foot, leading to surgery and six months of rehabilitation. Photos included in the Army’s report appear to show a bloodstained carpet.

The P320 has been a disaster. It seems that the failure is from internal components being very low quality. There have been no reports of them going off if they have had their components swapped out for after market components. Archive: https://archive.today/rj0il From the post: >>Around lunchtime on Feb. 8, 2023, inside an administrative office at Fort Eustis in Virginia, a sergeant with the Army’s 221st Military Police Detachment stood chatting with his supervisor. Another soldier on his way to an office refrigerator tried to squeeze past the sergeant in a narrow hallway. That’s when their gun holsters made contact. “All I remember was the clanking” of the two holsters, the sergeant would later tell an Army investigator, according to a military report, “and [the] gun shot.” A bullet from the sergeant’s own gun ripped through his foot, leading to surgery and six months of rehabilitation. Photos included in the Army’s report appear to show a bloodstained carpet.

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Same playbook they used when the 1st M16s were introduced. They were pieces of shit. “Nothing to see here. If the troops kept them clean it wouldn’t be a problem!”