Comment: This second article came out 10 July 2025. Airman's death was 20 July 2025. The FBI testing described in this second article was reported August 2024. Uncommanded firing occurred with a 1,000 round used pistol as well as a brand new pistol!
Personal Opinion: Were this some other kind of product other than a firearm, product recall would have occurred. The gun industry protects itself with legislation favorable to preventing recalls and as much as possible, lawsuits. This lawsuit protection article is 20 June 2025.
https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-sig-sauer-ps320-lawsuits-654278c792e8e1309d70e3f69ff19bfe
"Sig Sauer, faced with lawsuits over a popular pistol, gets protection in New Hampshire"
BY KATHY MCCORMACK
Updated 12:06 AM EDT, June 20, 2025
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Faced with mounting lawsuits over a popular pistol, New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer asked for — and got — protection in the form of a new state law that makes it harder to take the gunmaker to court.
Supporters in the Republican-led Legislature said the law was needed to help a major employer. The lawsuits say Sig Sauer’s P320 pistol can go off without the trigger being pulled, an allegation the company denies.
Quote: Changing subjects but still in this article: Wow Look at This:
In a different industry — pesticides — governors in North Dakota and Georgia signed laws this year providing legal protections to Bayer, the maker of Roundup, a popular weed killer. Bayer has been hit with 181,000 claims alleging that the key ingredient in Roundup causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Bayer disputes those claims.
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https://www.wearethemighty.com/tactical/the-fbi-evaluation-of-the-sig-sauer-p320/
"The surprising FBI evaluation and ICE ban of the troubled
Sig Sauer P320"
By Miguel Ortiz
Published Jul 10, 2025 8:34 AM PDT
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With FBI funding, the Ballistic Research Facility conducted a battery of scientific analyses on the M18 itself, including X-ray images, coordinate scans, and isolated tests on its firing mechanism. The lab found that the striker safety lock spring was not fully seated and only captured at the top of the striker housing. The sear experienced uneven wear, and the primary and secondary sear notch edges showed signs of wear. Additionally, the bottom of the striker pin hook had a “ledge” instead of being flat.
Using a digital microscope, BRF confirmed that the primary and secondary sear notch edges exhibited wear, the face edges of each notch appeared chipped, and the primary sear ramp had a manufacturing artifact.
That was very technical, so here’s where all of that analysis led: To mimic what a pistol goes through when being carried by an officer who might run, jump, climb, fight, draw the pistol, or just lean against a wall or vehicle, BRF pressed together and pulled apart the M18 at the slide and frame.
Afterward, pressure was applied to the frame, and the sear was manually released from the primary notch, testing the effectiveness of the secondary sear notch to prevent the pistol from firing. The test was performed with the M18 in the holster.
Of the 50 iterations conducted during the FBI evaluation, BRF found the M18 fired a primed case nine times. But this was a used handgun with over 1,000 rounds through it (the Modular Handgun System – of which the M18 is part – requires a service life of 25,000 rounds, but try not to think about that). So the Michigan State Police provided a brand-new, unfired M18 to BRF. In the new M18, the primed case fired on the second attempt.
