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I guess it depends on what your standard for pulls is, I dont own a P320 but i would called them on the lighter side of average for the ones I've shot.
But again, engaging the sear to any point before release should not fire the gun. Tolerance stackup is a thing, but it needs to be managed for safety critical applications.
Sort of? The XM17 selection has been controversial for a while- the P320 did poorly on the drop safety tests resulting in a redesign, and then after down select to just Sig and Glock, Sig was awarded the contract before endurance testing was actuslly accomplished (allegedly because Sig cut their price massively at that point). Police departments appear to have based their selection on the military's selection, but I havent heard much about any of their testing, there doesnt appear to be a whole lot of it done.
Now I agree if this was just bitching about one Glock-clone vs another then there might not be anything to it, but the P320 is not a Glock clone, and has some rather unique elements to its design such as a fully cocked striker on recoil that no one else has done (including Sig on their other guns like the P365), and there appears to be a good reason for that.
I think it's pretty clear that the P320 stock trigger pull is standard for its class. It does not have a trigger safety, of course, and in general striker pistols are far lighter than a DA pull. Which is why Glock Leg was such a thing when police departments started moving away from revolvers and DA/SA pistols.
Imagine if this had happened in the present social media era: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/11/18/armed-and-unready/419a50bf-23b0-4175-93ee-33211044c8df/
The P320 passed industry drop-safe testing standards. Through extra testing outside those standards, it was late found a very particular kind of drop did cause an issue. The XM17 drop testing found essentially the same issue with the same fix--lighter parts to reduce inertia issues.
https://thrumylens.org/featured/my-thoughts-on-the-sig-p320-30-degree-drop-failure/
As an overly committed P365 owner, I assure you they are also fully cocked. While broadly similar, it is a different FCU design. For one thing, the rails on the P365 go the whole length of the FCU.
Seriously? This is probably the most tested gun in history between common adoption worldwide in militaries and LE agencies, plus a huge private market. And now several years of ongoing drama.
Whatever the problem is, it's nonobvious because you have all kinds of people trying to find it. My understanding is that this is the likely explanation for the ones firing in holsters (found in YouTube comments):
At the end of the day, Sig has handled this poorly and, even if I discount like 50% of the alleged uncommanded discharges as actually negligent discharges, there's some kind of manufacturing/design/wear/tolerance flaw that is insufficiently rare and so the problem isn't going away. If I were Sig, I'd probably halt all P320 production, figure out some kind of safety field test to identify units with the flaw(s), and then not resume production until a full fix was in place.
On the other hand, if it turns out the USAF incident was actually not as popularly described (I'm seeing some reports it was airmen fooling around), then a lot of people should eat some crow.
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