New Jersey's Attorney General Issues a Safety Alert Over the SIG Sauer P320, the Pistol at the Center of the State's Lawsuit
The state's policing-strategy office told officers this week that the Attorney General's firearms-enforcement office has 'serious safety concerns' about the P320 - the service pistol the state sued over last year, alleging it has fired without a trigger pull. SIG Sauer says that cannot happen.
New Jersey's Attorney General's office has put its concerns about a widely carried police pistol into an alert to officers. On October 28, the state's Office of Policing Strategy and Innovation issued an Officer Safety Alert regarding the SIG Sauer P320 pistol, according to reporting on the alert read by this desk. The alert states that the Attorney General's Statewide Affirmative Firearms Enforcement Office 'has serious safety concerns regarding the Sig Sauer P320 pistol,' and it points officers to the state's lawsuit against the manufacturer, which details incidents the state alleges involved the gun firing without a trigger pull and causing serious injury.
The lawsuit behind the alert was filed in October 2025. Among the incidents it highlights, according to the reporting, is a 2022 case in which a police officer attending a firearms course at the New Jersey State Police Academy allegedly experienced an uncommanded discharge of his P320 service weapon after holstering it. The alert also notes that federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies have discontinued the pistol's use. The case itself has been fought over where it belongs: SIG Sauer removed it from New Jersey Superior Court to federal court in November 2025, the state sought to have it sent back, and in July 2026 a federal judge recommended remanding it to the state court.
SIG Sauer's position is a flat denial. The company declined to comment on the alert beyond referring to its P320 Truth website, which states that 'the P320 CANNOT, under any circumstances, discharge without a trigger pull.' The Attorney General's office declined to comment on the lawsuit, the move or the alert, and the state Fraternal Order of Police confirmed it shared the alert at the Attorney General's request. For New Jersey departments that still issue or approve the P320, the alert is the state's formal word that its safety is disputed in court - with the allegations and the denial both now on the record.
