P320 drop test fail?

I asked Apex Tactical what they were going to do about their triggers in the P320's heres their reply

Thank you for contacting us in regard to our aftermarket line of P320 triggers. We are aware of and have been tracking recent developments in regard to the P320 Drop Safety Testing.

Due to Sig Sauer’s recently announced “voluntary upgrade” of the Sig Sauer P320 pistol, announced on August 8, 2017, Apex, out of an abundance of caution, has chosen until further notice to suspend sales of those aftermarket trigger products specifically designed for use in the Sig Sauer P320.

We are not openly advertising the mass(physical weight) of our aftermarket triggers for the P320 pistol at this time. We do not feel that doing so will help the situation and such data might be misunderstood and misrepresented. Our products should not be seen as a "fix" or "correction" to the claimed drop safety problems. Having done our own testing, the mass of the trigger as the sole issue of the discharge is inconclusive and we await further technical data from Sig Sauer.
 
Very funny...until the day Glock has some kind of serious problem.

Payback is hell
 
gc70 said:
I have a nasty suspicion that somebody at SIG might have focused on solving complaints about 'trigger sting' while forgetting about how the more massive new 'adverse trigger' might unbalance the system.

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According to this "test" the X-series flat and lighter mass trigger does not seem to have the problem so your suspicion seems pretty good ... goto about 3:00 and they discuss it.
 
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Jeppo said:
Very funny...until the day Glock has some kind of serious problem.

Payback is hell
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To be fair, SIG did start it by going off for an entire paragraph in their official statement about how safe the 320 was because it doesn't require a trigger pull for disassembly.They also had to say in that letter-Oh yeah, our gun isn't drop safe...
 
spockrock said:
To be fair, SIG did start it by going off for an entire paragraph in their official statement about how safe the 320 was because it doesn't require a trigger pull for disassembly.They also had to say in that letter-Oh yeah, our gun isn't drop safe...
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I get that and, as a marketing guy, I think they stepped on their collective "****s". I'd have fessed up and skipped the marketing fluff.

However, payback is still hell and Glock may regret that someday.
 
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GreatGazoo said:
Does sort of give new meaning to "Drop your weapon!"
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No! Wait, don't!


Sig is getting sooo... much bad PR out of this. Of course, that initial response of it meets industry standard testing was the kicker that makes it so bad and worth the pile on.
 
I wouldn't have thought much about this issue. But now I carry my P320c carefully from the house to the truck. The chances of it falling precisely on the butt and firing like in the videos are remote enough to be non-existent, but I make sure to carry it muzzle down now. I wonder how many other guns out there are not drop safe?
 
dmarbell said:
I wouldn't have thought much about this issue. But now I carry my P320c carefully from the house to the truck. The chances of it falling precisely on the butt and firing like in the videos are remote enough to be non-existent, but I make sure to carry it muzzle down now. I wonder how many other guns out there are not drop safe?
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It is easy to get caught up in the excitement of 'testing' and discussion. Stepping back, the bigger picture looks a little different; 4 incidents over a period of 4 years from a half million guns.
 
gc70 said:
It is easy to get caught up in the excitement of 'testing' and discussion. Stepping back, the bigger picture looks a little different; 4 incidents over a period of 4 years from a half million guns.
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I did a little research online. I haven't found a test on other handguns where they drop them precisely on the butt of the gun like they did the P320 in the tests on Youtube. I'd like to see every model dropped the same way as the Sig.

With apologies to Henny Youngman fans: It shoots when you drop it a certain way. Well, then don't drop it that way!
 
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