The second-largest police department in Indiana is rolling out new firearms for its officers.
Indiana State Police purchased 1,350 Sig Sauer P320 pistols at a total cost of $1.17 million, including holsters.
In case you haven't heard, what they're buying is a gun that is being dumped by lots of police departments around the country because of what somebody termed "uncommanded discharges". Police trade-in guns are available at a lot of the used-gun sites for reasonable prices, usually with holsters and extra magazines.
Given the national reputation for the P320 and the obvious fact that, if one of the ISP's P320s goes off and hurts somebody, the lawsuit will probably be a pretty dman easy case to win, one has to wonder why they would buy P320s.
I have my ideas on that. And I suspect that you do, as well.
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Is that the one that if you slip a pencil between your trigger and middle-ring finger and the trigger it'll go full auto on pull?
In my humble opinion. All stricker fired weapons are unsafe. I have three Sig pistols, the 220, 226 and the 238. None have ever went bang , unless chosen to. To hell and back reliable...
While the 320 UD reputation is somewhat overblown (The UD issue cannot be recreated in any 320's, and it appears that all the incidents were user error), there are lots of other pistols that are just as good at the same price that could have been chosen.
I'm sure that "accommodations" for the person making the decision were made.
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