jury awards Georgia man $2.3M in product liability case involving Sig-made pistol

Sig Sauer's Newington headquarters; inset the P320 (Courtesy photos)

A jury has awarded a Georgia man $2.3 million in a product liability case against New Hampshire gunmaker Sig Sauer.
The federal jury found that Sig Sauer's P320 pistol, popular among law enforcement agencies across the country, lacked a trigger safety and was responsible in the shooting injury to Robert Lang.
Sig Sauer released a statement saying they would appeal the verdict.
"Sig Sauer does not believe that the plaintiff has met his burden to prove the P320 model pistol was designed defectively or negligently as claimed," the statement from Sig Sauer read. "There are no facts on the record to support that Mr. Lang's discharge claim was the result of anything other than his own negligent handling causing him to pull the trigger on the P320 pistol."
Sig Sauer is headquartered in Newington and has a manufacturing facility in Rochester.
During court testimony Lang's attorneys argued that he was injured in the thigh in December 2018 while removing the gun from the holster.
"Before he could even lift the gun off of his belt, the weapon discharged," according to the complaint.
Sig Sauer's P320 pistol is one of the most popular guns in the United States, with more than 2.5 million sold, court records indicate.
The Washington Post has reported that 33 police officers at 18 agencies had been injured and at least six agencies had removed the P320 from service as of 2023.
Variations of the pistol are official sidearms of all branches of the U.S. military, which uses more than 450,000 M17 and M18 pistols, according to SIG Sauer.
The case was heard in Atlanta, Ga.

A Rochester Police spokesman was not immediately available to say whether the pistol is used by their agency.

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