Sidearms & Scatterguns Two more P320s discharge in Holster.

[stefan73]

It could have also been desperation......if I remember right allegedly when Cohen took over in the early 2000's it was suggested that Sig USA was basically on the verge of going under with only like 100 employees (estimates put them at about 2000 now). Cohen evidently pushed the idea that Sig should start pushing AR platforms instead of just handguns and evidently that was a huge shot of profit into the company.

Poking around on it, it looks like he took over in 2004, and quickly hired Bud Fini to handle marketing etc. Fini is quoted as saying in a interview in 2013:

"The last five to seven years have just been phenomenal for us," he said, adding that the company doubled the size of its New Hampshire facilities in 2011, and then again in 2013. A main driver of that growth is from the rifle business, he said. "We wanted to change that perception so that we were a rifle company that makes handguns, and we are well on our way towards that," he said.

So for awhile it probably looked pretty amazing on the balance sheets, might still for all I know.

All that said, you can have a super profitable company, great for investors etc. and still be shit for consumers.

So, he did good for them and then wrecked them. Their name is going to be shit for a while as a result of this. People were already complaining after the MPX issues about being BETA testers for SIG's stuff.

But then, people are still drinking piss water aka Bud Light so who knows. We do seem to have a 10 second attention span.

 

[flogxal]

I’m not a lawyer. What do the lawyers in the audience think of the act of trying to improve the safety of the P320 (for a second time)? In context of the legal cases against them, that is.

In torts (business & personal injury), there is a principle that says, "acts of remediation should not be used as admissions of guilt," but the principle is not an on/off, yes/no application. It just makes things stickier on how you present it to the jury. Defense counsel for SIG USA will surely argue the principle and say it should stick here. Whether the jury comes to the same conclusion is a different Q.