DHS Directs ICE Agents to Turn In P320s for G19s

The saga of Sig Sauer’s P320 just doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon. What started as a YouTuber finding a potential defect has, over time, morphed into serious problems with the guns.

Multiple people report having been shot with their own firearms while it was in the holster. Most recently was the report of a California police officer being injured when her duty weapon, in an approved holster, went off while in that holster. The whole thing was caught on video.

Then we had the FBI report that found there was a potential problem.

Now, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo directing ICE to hand over their P320s for something more reliable.

The memo, dated July 9, 2025, and obtained by Breitbart News, says ICE Authorized Officers “will no longer be authorized to carry all models of the SIG Sauer P320 pistols.”

The memo “also directs the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs to purchase, as soon as practical, replacement duty handguns for currently affected ICE Authorized Officers, including those scheduled to be issued in the near term, and to provide a proposed plan within 10 calendar days to, among other items, supply an agency-issued Glock 19 MOS pistol and related equipment, to include a micro red dot sight, weapon mounted light, duty holster, and concealed carry holster, to all ICE Authorized Officers moving forward.”

This really just makes Sig Sauer’s “defense” back in March look even dumber.

Whether they like it or not, there’s a problem with the firearms. They can claim they’ve won in court, but they’ve also lost. There’s a problem, and it would behoove them to look and figure out what it is, fix it, and then issue a recall so this ends. Sig can make damn good guns. We all know it, too. However, the way they’ve handled this should be taught in business school for generations to come on what not to do when there’s a problem with your product.

Now, Sig still has government contracts aplenty, and their P365 pistols don’t seem to have any of these issues. In fact, none of their other products do, and a lot of people will likely continue buying the firearms going forward. That’s fine, because I don’t wish any ill on Sig in a general sense.

But I do wish they’d get their thumbs out of their fourth point of contact and actually fix the problem instead of pretending they’re the victims.

This isn’t rocket science. I might not be equipped with the engineering knowledge to fix it myself, but Sig has engineers on the payroll who should be able to do just that. Let them do it, offer the fix to people with the guns, including the government customers, and then get back to the business of making decent firearms.

As things currently stand, I’m not sure I’d trust any Sig Sauer product at the moment, in part because I know if there’s something wrong with it, they’re unlikely to accept that there’s a problem in the first place. 

Lucky for them that there are a lot of people who don’t know about these issues.

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