One week after arguing for continued secrecy around the Army’s Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) of the P320, Sig Sauer has changed course in Glasscock v. Sig Sauer. In a new, unopposed motion, the company asks the Missouri district court to unseal the FMECA and the class‑certification filings that rely on it.| Practical Shooting Insights
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
Today, former USPSA Board Member and Area 2 Director Jon Birdt filed a lawsuit against the United States Practical Shooting Association (“USPSA”), alleging defamation and breach of fiduciary duty by other USPSA board members. Birdt was recently removed from the board following a vote by both the board and Area 2 membership, which occurred after he filed a separate lawsuit in Washington, the location of USPSA headquarters. Prior to the Washington lawsuit being filed, Birdt in his duties as...| 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
If you’ve followed my recent research into the Sig Sauer P320 litigation, you know the headlines keep piling up. Days after we learned an Air Force airman was fatally shot while unholstering his nearly identical M18 service pistol, a federal court in Missouri handed down another piece of news: the first statewide consumer class action over the P320 is officially moving forward.| Practical Shooting Insights
This story begins with research I started a few days ago after reading about the recent, tragic incident involving a United States Air Force airman who was killed while on duty, reportedly while unholstering his Air Force-issued Sig Sauer M18. This firearm is, for all intents and purposes, identical to the consumer P320 model handgun. That incident led me to explore recent litigation against Sig Sauer through CourtListener. I discovered approximately 20–30 federal court cases involving the ...| 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
