Deputy Sues Sig over Fractured Femur

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Loudoun County, VA – A Loudoun County sheriff’s deputy has filed a lawsuit against SIG Sauer alleging that her fully-holstered duty weapon discharged and sent a bullet into her leg.

The incident occurred on Feb. 7, when 37-year-old Loudoun County Deputy Marcie Vadnais went to the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Academy to attend a general instructor course, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported.

In accordance with academy policy, Deputy Vadnais began removing her firearm from her belt when she arrived.

According to the lawsuit, as she fed the belt through the holster’s first tooth, her SIG Sauer P320 somehow “fired one nine millimeter bullet, which hit her in the upper right thigh,” the Blast reported.

“At no time during this incident did she touch the trigger, which at all times was inside and covered by a SIG-manufactured holster,” the lawsuit read.

The round shattered the deputy’s femur “in several places” and caused “massive blood loss and other internal injuries,” according to the suit.

Original article here; https://www.themaven.net/bluelivesm...-over-shattered-femur-utqGh979B0CyqihO58D75Q/
 
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Interesting. I'd like to read the findings of the investigation to see if indeed it was a faulty firearm or user error. Now, maybe it's just me but wouldn't it be easier abd safer to remove the loaded firearm from the holster before attaching it to your belt? I'm not saying it couldn't very well be a defective firearm...

Rule no.1 - Assume all guns are loaded.
Rule no.2 - Don't point a gun at anything you don't intend to destroy.
Rule no.3 - See rules 1 & 2
 
Trinimon said:
Interesting. I'd like to read the findings of the investigation to see if indeed it was a faulty firearm or user error. Now, maybe it's just me but wouldn't it be easier abd safer to remove the loaded firearm from the holster before attaching it to your belt? I'm not saying it couldn't very well be a defective firearm...

Rule no.1 - Assume all guns are loaded.
Rule no.2 - Don't point a gun at anything you don't intend to destroy.
Rule no.3 - See rules 1 & 2
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It was holstered. Sig f**ked up with the gun the holster or both and we know the 320 is not drop safe.
 
I understand the drop inertial trigger pull, but a holstered gun going off in your hand is hard to fathom. If the trigger didn't move, the striker would have to have enough tension to set the primer off, and the firing pin safety would have to fail.
 
Rampant speculation, but this is the Internet: if she holstered it while the holster was regularly attached to her belt, and while holstering she caught something inside the holster with the firearm, such as a draw string, and then while removing the firearm/holster (as a unit) she put pressure onto the draw string and the draw string pulled the trigger and discharged the firearm, then that would be totally her fault.


In other words, might be a bit early to play the blame game.
 
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Juster said:
I understand the drop inertial trigger pull, but a holstered gun going off in your hand is hard to fathom. If the trigger didn't move, the striker would have to have enough tension to set the primer off, and the firing pin safety would have to fail.
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PizzaEater said:
Rampant speculation, but this is the Internet: if she holstered it while the holster was regularly attached to her belt, and while holstering she caught something inside the holster with the firearm, such as a draw string, and then while removing the firearm/holster (as a unit) she put pressure onto the draw string and the draw string pulled the trigger and discharged the firearm, then that would be totally her fault.


In other words, might be a bit early to play the blame game.
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Re read the op. The story as indicated claims the gun was HOLSTERED and the holstered gun was being removed from the belt when it went off.
 
The claim seems to be the gun will go off all by itself while sitting in a SIG Holster. With a a FPB...I don't think so. You may or may not like SIG products but they do make good products. Unless the trigger was pulled I think it is fanciful to think the gun can go off just sitting in a holster. I think this is more of a case where an officer is looking for compensation when none should be accorded. I hope SIG fights this one rather than settling out of court.

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Typical these days......someone always wants someone else to pay for their stupidity.

I really hope Sig fights this all the way.
 
AB_blaster said:
Re read the op. The story as indicated claims the gun was HOLSTERED and the holstered gun was being removed from the belt when it went off.
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Or they say it was holstered. Nobody will admit they F'ed up. Always blame something else.

If you're going to remove a holster from the belt. You normally clear the gun before.
 
I want to see the holster and it's design ... taking a holster off that threads through with a loaded firearm (pulling in the direction of trigger actuation), isn't so bright...
 
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