This is completely new to me. What’s causing them to fire? I mean, a gun sitting on its own on a night stand can sit there for 1,000 years and never go off. That’s still a valid assumption, right?
Unlike other striker-fired guns, the P320 is “effectively fully cocked at rest”, since its striker is under constant spring pressure, which is released when the trigger is pulled. Most such guns, including the P320’s military variant, have external safeties (like thumb safeties), which the P320’s civilian variant lacks. According to gunsmith James Tertin, this is a rare and “uniquely dangerous” configuration. Sean Toner, the P320 designer, has acknowledged in court that “U.S. standards are not very stringent.”
This seems to be an issue with this gun specifically, there are at least a hundred incidents of misfires and drop fires that have been reported around this gun and there’s a bunch of lawsuits related to it, but I’m not aware of any industry-wide increase in incidents.
This is completely new to me. What’s causing them to fire? I mean, a gun sitting on its own on a night stand can sit there for 1,000 years and never go off. That’s still a valid assumption, right?
from the wiki
This seems to be an issue with this gun specifically, there are at least a hundred incidents of misfires and drop fires that have been reported around this gun and there’s a bunch of lawsuits related to it, but I’m not aware of any industry-wide increase in incidents.
Sean Toner sounds like a dipshit.