a Washington State academy banned the Sig Sauer P320 at all its training facilities,

[Maxrobot]

"Bellevue police have more than 200 Sig Sauer P320 handguns in service. Last month, the Criminal Justice Training Center (CJTC) banned the P320 at all its training facilities. That means Bellevue police recruits, and those from any other Washington agency issuing P320s to its officers, must train on a different model of firearm than the one they will use on the job."
Kirkland Police Lieutenant Troy Knafla, -“We have made the decision and stand by our choice of the Sig P320. Sig has proved it cannot fire without a trigger pull,”

WA police departments oppose academy's 'outrageous' ban on Sig Sauer P320 handguns

Since a Washington academy banned the Sig Sauer P320 at all its training facilities, police officers will now be trained on different guns.

www.king5.com

 

[Malibru]

So, the gun went bang when the single strand of the handcuff was pivoting and got into the holster during a scuffle on the ground. They determined that was what pressed the trigger. Annnnnd they are replacing the guns.
They must be super confident that the next time this happens with a different gun, it will hopefully misfire when trigger is pressed. Or they can switch to a gun with a safety, sorry Glock and others.
P320: "Goes bang everytime you press the trigger". New marketing slogan.

 

[Mountain]

"Bellevue police have more than 200 Sig Sauer P320 handguns in service. Last month, the Criminal Justice Training Center (CJTC) banned the P320 at all its training facilities. That means Bellevue police recruits, and those from any other Washington agency issuing P320s to its officers, must train on a different model of firearm than the one they will use on the job."
Kirkland Police Lieutenant Troy Knafla, -“We have made the decision and stand by our choice of the Sig P320. Sig has proved it cannot fire without a trigger pull,”

WA police departments oppose academy's 'outrageous' ban on Sig Sauer P320 handguns

Since a Washington academy banned the Sig Sauer P320 at all its training facilities, police officers will now be trained on different guns.

www.king5.com

 

[T-Unit]

So, the gun went bang when the single strand of the handcuff was pivoting and got into the holster during a scuffle on the ground. They determined that was what pressed the trigger. Annnnnd they are replacing the guns.
They must be super confident that the next time this happens with a different gun, it will hopefully misfire when trigger is pressed. Or they can switch to a gun with a safety, sorry Glock and others.
P320: "Goes bang everytime you press the trigger". New marketing slogan.

"It determined that a loose “strand” from the deputy’s handcuff swung into the trigger well of the deputy’s holster during the struggle. That was “responsible for pulling the trigger” the final report a month later concluded."

It sounds like the handcuff hit the holster on the outside where the trigger is and it fired. If that's the case, that's a problem with the gun, if it's that part of the cuff went into the holster and hooked the trigger, then nothing short of a 1911 with a grip safety and the safety on wouldn't have fired.

There's enough out there about the 320 that I'm suspicious of them. In this instance dumb cops and their lapdog local media are probably working a narrative to get taxpayers to accept spending money replacing these Sigs because the police are complaining to their union reps they don't feel safe with the guns they're being issued.

 

[oldguy68]

Hey, but they are professional ones!

 

[SS1]

New batch of P220's maybe

 

[pdm]

So.... they should have spent more than $20 on their holsters?