Faced with mounting lawsuits over a popular pistol, New Hampshire-based gunmaker Sig Sauer has gotten protection in the form of a new state law that makes it harder to take the manufacturer to court.

Supporters in the Republican-led Legislature said the law was needed to help a major employer. The lawsuits say Sig Sauer’s P320 pistol can go off without the trigger being pulled, an allegation the company denies.

The law covers all gun manufacturers and federal firearm licensees in product liability claims regarding the “absence or presence” of four specific safety features. One of those features is an external mechanical safety that people suing Sig Sauer say should be standard on the P320, based on its design. Claims can still be filed over manufacturing defects.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This is a weird case because the p320 did pass the required drop test.

    You drop it X amount of times, from Y height, at A, B, and C angles.

    The p320 won’t go off, and passes the test

    But drop it from a couple inches higher, at a specific (but not tested) angle… And it might go off.

    The problem, like usual, is cops.

    Cops always have a shit ton of negligent discharges. So when people said a p320 can just “go off” every negligent discharge with a p320 was blamed on the gun. Even when the incident was on camera and didn’t involve a drop.

    Cops just lie about shit instinctively.