New guy here in Oregon

[JD43]

Hey all,

Glad I found this community. Please excuse my lack of proper firearm lingo in advance. What are your thoughts on the Sig P320? I purchased this firearm as my first pistol a few years back, without knowing the history of this model. Do you think there was ever a legitimate problem with the design of the P320? My model was made with the upgrade.

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[Andy54Hawken]

Welcome to the forum @JD43

I do not know enough about the SIG P320 to give you a decent answer.
However...
@sobo
Knows a lot about this pistol...and give you a far better answer that I can.
I trust his word in this matter.
Andy

 

[fredball]

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[64MercurysRule]

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[ma96782]

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[DB is Here]

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[sobo]

Hey all,

Glad I found this community. Please excuse my lack of proper firearm lingo in advance. What are your thoughts on the Sig P320? I purchased this firearm as my first pistol a few years back, without knowing the history of this model. Do you think there was ever a legitimate problem with the design of the P320? My model was made with the upgrade.

Welcome, JD! Glad you're here!

IMHO, the P320 is a fine machine, all the shiitty jokes and stupid, tired attempts at humor aside. It was my first concealed carry pistol, and is still my go-to carry and competition firearm. And it has never "just gone off by itself" in 8± years of near-daily CC and countless USPSA competitions. To give you an idea of how much I use this gun, I have fired over 15,000 rounds through it to date, and every single one of them was fired by me squeezin' the trigger - it never "just went off"... So don't let the rapscallions here get under your skin about the boolscheet claims and tired jokes they constantly parrot about 320s. No, they just don't go off uncommanded. Every time you hear that crap, and an investigation ensues, you'll always find out that the user did something stupid and jacked with the trigger somehow. Something caught in the holster, gun carried loose in a gym bag, pulling the trigger while panicked and the gun was still in the holster, etc. Totally stupid firearm handling...

There was a legitimate scenario early on in the gun's history that if the P320 was dropped in such a manner that the back of the slide contacted the ground first from above a certain height (around waist height, IIRC), then the gun would discharge a round. This was because the mass of the original trigger was large enough to cause it to continue to move backward because of momentum. SIG fixed that with the trigger VUP in 2018 or so. Any P320 purchased new after that already had the lightened trigger. Mine was an original model, so I sent mine in for the VUP and got the lightened trigger. There's even a thread here by me on that issue.

There's also a lot of SIG-hate on this site because some folks here believe in the not-unwarranted claim that SIG uses its purchasers as "beta testers" for its firearms. Case in point being the P320 as the most visible example. There is some element of truth there that I will not deny. Even so, I own three SIG pistols (P365, P320, and C31911) in 3 different calibers and not a single one of them has decided to go running around shooting people on its own. I doubt yours ever will, either.

Again, welcome to The Board, the bestest li'l gun board there is!

And @Andy54Hawken, thank you for the vote of confidence.

 

[Xaevian]

Welcome!

 

[JD43]

Welcome, JD! Glad you're here!

IMHO, the P320 is a fine machine, all the shiitty jokes and stupid, tired attempts at humor aside. It was my first concealed carry pistol, and is still my go-to carry and competition firearm. And it has never "just gone off by itself" in 8± years of near-daily CC and countless USPSA competitions. To give you an idea of how much I use this gun, I have fired over 15,000 rounds through it to date, and every single one of them was fired by me squeezin' the trigger - it never "just went off"... So don't let the rapscallions here get under your skin about the boolscheet claims and tired jokes they constantly parrot about 320s. No, they just don't go off uncommanded. Every time you hear that crap, and an investigation ensues, you'll always find out that the user did something stupid and jacked with the trigger somehow. Something caught in the holster, gun carried loose in a gym bag, pulling the trigger while panicked and the gun was still in the holster, etc. Totally stupid firearm handling...

There was a legitimate scenario early on in the gun's history that if the P320 was dropped in such a manner that the back of the slide contacted the ground first from above a certain height (around waist height, IIRC), then the gun would discharge a round. This was because the mass of the original trigger was large enough to cause it to continue to move backward because of momentum. SIG fixed that with the trigger VUP in 2018 or so. Any P320 purchased new after that already had the lightened trigger. Mine was an original model, so I sent mine in for the VUP and got the lightened trigger. There's even a thread here by me on that issue.

There's also a lot of SIG-hate on this site because some folks here believe in the not-unwarranted claim that SIG uses its purchasers as "beta testers" for its firearms. Case in point being the P320 as the most visible example. There is some element of truth there that I will not deny. Even so, I own three SIG pistols (P365, P320, and C31911) in 3 different calibers and not a single one of them has decided to go running around shooting people on its own. I doubt yours ever will, either.

Again, welcome to The Board, the bestest li'l gun board there is!

And @Andy54Hawken, thank you for the vote of confidence.

I assumed much of the negative stigma regarding the P320 was a result of misinformation, and you just confirmed that. I feel a lot better about owning a P320 now. Thanks for the insight.

 

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