I want to publicly share my analysis of—and the significance behind—the Sig Sauer P320 FMECA I recently published: The Document Sig Sauer Doesn’t Want You to See About the P320. In my view, this FMECA—which Sig Sauer has sought to keep from the public for years—is a crucial document, and there’s a reason for that secrecy: releasing it would be embarrassing for the company. My full take is below.| Practical Shooting Insights
Summary: In early 2016—more than a year before Sig Sauer publicly acknowledged drop-safety problems with its P320 pistol—renowned gunsmith Bruce Gray of Grayguns was already designing a fix in collaboration with Sig Sauer. Patent filings show he developed the very components later included in Sig Sauer’s Voluntary Upgrade Program. The timeline raises critical questions: When did Sig Sauer know about the defect? Why were pistols that could fail drop testing still shipped to the U.S. Army...| Practical Shooting Insights
Yesterday afternoon, Sig Sauer and its legal team filed a fresh batch of “partially unsealed” documents in Glasscock v. Sig Sauer. This latest Friday dump spans a dozen exhibits — from corporate declarations to engineering expert reports — and while some of it is the predictable PR-polished defense narrative, there are new admissions, interesting data points, and at least one unresolved fight that almost certainly revolves around the same document I’ve been writing about for a coupl...| Practical Shooting Insights
In a live interview today with Hunters HD Gold, Sig Sauer VP of Consumer Affairs, Phil Strader, addressed an audience question about the “highly confidential” P320 document that I previously wrote about and published here. Strader is quoted as saying, “now that it is out there, we [Sig] don’t mind.”| Practical Shooting Insights
The secrecy battle over the Army’s Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for Sig Sauer’s P320 has followed Glasscock v. Sig Sauer to the Eighth Circuit. A media intervenor is now asking the appellate court to keep key records open—and their brief places Practical Shooting Insights (this site) squarely in the middle of the story.| Practical Shooting Insights