SIG Sauer Announces Two New Dismissals in P320 Litigation
SIG announced at the end of May two new dismissals in two separate court cases regarding claims of uncommanded discharges with service-issued P320s.
In Colorado’s Jantz v. Sig, where the plaintiff claimed the pistol’s striker released from the sear due to debris contamination (as well as claiming the safety spring was missing), the United States District Court for the District of Colorado officially entered an order in April dismissing the case with prejudice.
The dismissal followed two years of discovery during which SIG showed that the P320 could not discharge without a trigger pull. Further, official inspection of the service-issued P320 showed that the safety spring was in fact present, contrary to the plaintiff’s claim.
Shortly on the heels of this news, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered an order on May 28 to dismiss with prejudice Ahern v. Sig Sauer. In that case the plaintiff abandoned his claims after SIG, again, successfully showed that the P320 could not discharge without a trigger pull.
The Massachusetts case was notable in that ultimately the Cambridge Police Department, Ahern’s employer at the time, concluded after its own internal investigation that the accidental discharge occurred due to firearms handling concerns that violated numerous departmental rules.
These two cases push the total litigations regarding P320 uncommanded discharge claims that have either been dismissed or withdrawn to nearly 20.
For the full releases from SIG Sauer corporate, visit the link for Colorado here and for Massachusetts here. For more information on the P320 and the manufacturer’s official stance on the subject, visit www.sigsauer.com/p320-truth.
