New Jersey sues Sig Sauer for selling State Police defective handguns
ig Sauer, one of the largest firearm contractors in the world, has been named in a $2.5 million lawsuit alleging the New Hampshire gun maker sold the New Jersey State Police defective duty pistols and then failed to rectify the problem.
Represented by New Jersey’s attorney general, the lawsuit argues Sig breached a contract to supply 3,000 handguns to State Police, but “the weapons had a serious malfunction” that was not adequately fixed.
According to the complaint filed in late April, uncovered by The Trace, the gun maker filled the contract in September 2014, but when Troopers used the new P229 pistols during a qualification session, they experienced “Failure to Extract” malfunctions. This type of malfunction means “the weapons failed to eject the spent shell casing from the barrel after being fired, causing the next cartridge to become jammed behind the casing, and resulting in an inability to continue firing the weapon.”
Some town departments in NJ also use Sigs. Wonder if they got broken guns or only the NJSP. My town uses Sigs, the adjacent towns use M&P 45s and Glocks. It’s all over the board here.
It makes me wonder if this is a training issue. 3,000 P229s failing to extract? No. This is probably new officers shooting with their thumbs on the slide or slide catch. I’ve seen it more than once…
We just went through and swapped all the slides on our 229s due to failures of the firing pin position roll pins. Sig made good on it and replaced all our slides with new assemblies using the solid firing position pins.
The article mentions a long series of swapping parts, barrels, extractor springs, even guns…zero mention that I saw of ammo. Seems like that might be slightly relevant…
Not nearly to the extent commonly thought, especially on a full size pistol with full powered ammunition.
According to the complaint filed in late April, uncovered by The Trace, the gun maker filled the contract in September 2014, but when Troopers used the new P229 pistols during a qualification session, they experienced “Failure to Extract” malfunctions. This type of malfunction means “the weapons failed to eject the spent shell casing from the barrel after being fired, causing the next cartridge to become jammed behind the casing, and resulting in an inability to continue firing the weapon.”
A close friend of mine is NJSP. He was not happy with his P229 duty weapon because of the failures they were having. I consider him to be fairly educated on firearms and their usage.
