gc70 said:
Again, it does not happen to a pistol "without manipulation while holstered."
To clarify a point that wasn't clear regarding the FN striker problem:
There was the matter of trigger posistion, which I didn't remember from earlier discussions about the FNS issue...
The problem behavior identified by the Arizona agency occurred only when the slide was moved a small distance, the trigger pulled, and the slide was allowed to return to battery
with the trigger held to the rear. In that rare situation, the gun can be then hit, jarred or just reholstered, after the trigger is released, and it can fire. Here's a link to the Arizona video from YouTube:
There was manipulation prior to the unintended discharge,
but the manipulation in at least one case could be the process of holstering the weapon! But person handling the gun still had to do something prior to holstering that raises questions about the Baltimore event.
When the problem was first brought up, a bunch of us on the FN Forum thought the problem was caused by user actions (i.e., a negligent discharge). That MAY Have been the case in the Baltimore event, but it seems unlikely (in the Baltimore case) that it was due to the problems demonstrated in the Arizona testing.
I think I'd want to call BS on the Baltimore Officer's claim that it was nothing HE did that caused the discharge. (It only happens if the trigger is held to the rear while the slide is returned to battery. The Baltimore officer shouldn't have been doing anything that left the gun in that state.)
I suspect hat the Baltimore case was, in fact, due to negligent handling -- but if the striker issue had a role in the discharge, the guns still shouldn't have gone off if it happened while holstering.
Note, too, that the gun in question was NOT a SIG P320. In the case of the FNS line, there was a design issue which has been corrected.