Its funny how quickly the MSN homepage figures out what links to toss at you to get itself some clicks.  Because on Thursday morning, those guys got me to click.

This is my review of Firetruck Brewing Co Hero Dunkel:

On Thursday, local media in Massachusetts reported a local police Lieutenant filing a lawsuit against Sig Sauer because the gun somehow went off on its own while he was handling it in a SWAT van:

“He removed the Sig from his holster, looked for any obstructions in its holster, and as he was holding or moving the Sig (Sauer handgun) in front of his body it discharged with his finger nowhere near the trigger,” said attorney Jeff Bagnell, who represents Ahern and other officers around the country who say their P320s have fired on their own.

In the lawsuit, Ahern accuses Sig Sauer of selling a dangerously defective product and the city of Cambridge of retaliating against him for vocally opposing the police department’s purchase of more than 300 P320s.

Not my cup of tea, but a fine piece nonetheless.

That this is total bullshit, is my gut reaction to this claim.  The Sig P320 is a striker fire design.  I recognize there are some issues from other companies in the past that had problems with the drop test. In fact a pistol I purchased in college had one such design problem where the spring holding the firing pin block in place was too light and the block would fall if the pistol fell a certain way.  This was redressed by either Taurus paying for a new pistol or sending me a check.  I took the check and used it to buy one of these.

Sig Sauer however, is a highly reputable arms maker, and the US Army purchased the Sig P320 as a general purpose sidearm a couple years ago.  There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the US Army, but they aren’t going to field a weapon that just goes off on its own, right?  They’ll put it through a few endurance tests. This should be good to go, right?

Well

Primary among them, the aforementioned drop test issue that made headlines late last year. If dropped from the correct angle (onto the dovetail of the pistol) the M17 and M18 platforms are prone to discharging a round.

Want to know what doesn’t go off when you drop it?  A 1911.  Still, the Sig has to be dropped in a very particular way in order for this to be a problem, and it is highly unlikely it falls that way.  Which brings us back to today’s hero where once again, he:

“[…] removed the Sig from his holster, looked for any obstructions in its holster, and as he was holding or moving the Sig (Sauer handgun) in front of his body it discharged with his finger nowhere near the trigger,”

Sig Sauer should counter sue for defamation or whatever the proper legal term is for an idiot cop taking out his gun in a vehicle and failing to keep his finger off the trigger and then blaming the gun for going off on its own.  This cop could’ve killed people by being an idiot.

 

This beer is from Tucson and happens to made by actual firefighters.  Which does put them a notch or two higher in my book.  Being a former AF Civil Engineer, my opinion of firefighters is a bunch of guys that call me in the middle of the night to turn off a fire alarm, enforce fire code based on Mercury being retrograde, hang out at their own gym, and otherwise sit around the station washing their trucks everyday.  The fact they picked a Dunkel is a bold move given everyone has to throw out an IPA to make sales. Plus it is available for purchase at Sprouts.  Where I get to bring out my inner troll and buy a product with a hero worshiping line flag on the front while everyone else is waiting at six foot intervals to purchase a week’s worth of tempeh.  Its a win-win.  Firetruck Brewing Co Hero Dunkel: 3.9/5