A veteran Cambridge police officer’s gun discharged inside of a public school staff bathroom earlier this week, the latest instance of a Sig Sauer P320 pistol allegedly firing without an intentional trigger pull.
Sig Sauer’s P320 is one of the country’s most popular pistols among civilians and law enforcement agencies, but it has been plagued by allegations — andSig Sauer, which is based in New Hampshire, didn’t respond to a request for comment on the latest allegation of an unintentional discharge of its gun, but it has previously maintained that the weapon is safe. Sig Sauer is one of the state's largest private employers.
Greenidge has been with the Cambridge police force since 1987, and was assigned to the school as a youth resource officer. In May 2019, another veteran Cambridge police officer, Lieutenant Thomas Ahern, was inside a SWAT van with six other officers when he alleges his P320 discharged without his finger touching the trigger. The bullet, according to court paperwork, “deflected off a magnet affixed to his cellphone in his left pocket, entered an equipment bag on the floor of the van, and came to rest inside a ballistic helmet.