Sig Sauer

Sig Sauer

Basic information
Founded	2007
Legal structure	Private
Industry	firearms manufacturer
Official website	https://www.sigsauer.com/

SIG Sauer is a Swiss brand name of firearms originally manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Several sister companies that design and manufacture firearms use the trade name SIG Sauer [ɛs iː ɡeː ˈzaʊ̯ɐ] and it is also a registered brand name. The original company, Schweizerische Waggonfabrik (SWF), later Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG), went through several selloffs, leaving the SIG Sauer brand spread over several companies. The original SIG is now known as SIG Group and no longer has any firearms business.

• The German company was SIG Sauer GmbH & Co. KG. It was formed in 1976 as a partnership between Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) of Switzerland and J.P. Sauer & Sohn of Germany before going defunct in 2020.
• The Swiss company is SIG Sauer AG. Its predecessor SIG Arms AG was sold to L&O Holding in western Germany and was first renamed SAN Swiss Arms AG, commonly known as Swiss Arms, and in late 2019 was further renamed SIG Sauer AG.
• The American company is Sig Sauer, Inc (stylized as SIG SAUER). Its predecessor SIGARMS was founded in Virginia in 1985 to import and distribute SIG Sauer firearms into the United States: Its headquarters were moved to New Hampshire in 1990. This company was renamed Sig Sauer, Inc. in 2007, and since 2000 is organizationally separate from SIG Sauer GmbH.

L&O Holding is the parent company of the Swiss SIG Sauer AG and the American Sig Sauer Inc.

Consumer-impact summary

• Sig has been failing to address customer concern to some extent with the safety of their P320 and their M17 model of pistols. these are effectively the same firearm though for the civilian and military markets respectively. this has been brought to court rather frequently and culminated in at least several investigations.
• A 2023 investigation by The Washington Post and The Trace found more than 100 people who say their P320 discharged with no trigger pressure; at least 80 of them were wounded as a result. At least 35 of the shootings are purported to have occurred with either post-2017 P320s with the updated design intended to address the drop firing problem, or older ones which had been updated by SIG Sauer.
• the striker assembly for the P320 has a part that was designed to be stamped, though initial models were mimmed to save on costs
• the FBI report on the ballistic performance of the M17(P320) mentions risk of Negligent/Accidental discharge being reasonable in a law enforcement role, despite this the P320 is commonly fielded by law enforcement agencies throughout the US

Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Sig Sauer category.

The 2025 Sig Sauer P320 manual adds a change specifying that users should not carry the firearm with a round in the chamber. This goes against many voices in the community of people who concealed carry as in a situation that warrants use of the firearm there is no guarantee that an individual will have the opportunity to rack the slide before firing. This is a new amendment to the manual that was not present in prior years and may be verified on the documentation page for the gun.

Sheperis v. Sig Sauer, Inc. (2017)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P320#Sheperis_v._Sig_Sauer,_Inc. (settled in 2018, on the grounds that the issue was rectified via voluntary trigger upgrade )

Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).

Hartley, et al. v. Sig Sauer, Inc. (2018)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P320#Hartley,_et_al._v._Sig_Sauer,_Inc.(class action suit in February 2020, extended the voluntary trigger upgrade program and made Sig Sauer reimburse people whose firearms were unrepairable/were charged for the voluntary trigger upgrade. A class action settlement form is available on the SIG Sauer website.)

Products

Main article: [[SIG Sauer#Products]]

• SIG Sauer P320

See also

• https://www.dailyitem.com/wire/more-law-enforcement-agencies-reconsider-use-of-popular-sig-sauer-p320-handgun/article_c5280ff1-5777-5309-80ea-9348fd73e99c.html
• https://concealednation.org/2025/03/sig-sauer-p320-lawsuit-dismissed/

External links

• Lawsuits regarding P320 on Wikipedia
• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnhTYeVHHE