Sig Sauer hasn’t exactly been having the best time of late. I’ve personally been pretty hard on them, and not just when they accused people like me of being anti-gun. Their P320 definitely seems to have some issues, and the way they’ve handled it has not exactly been textbook.
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Though it might be going forward as an example of what not to do.
But fair is fair, and one of the most high-profile incidents involved the death of an Air Force security officer who supposedly was killed when his M18–the military’s designation for the P320–went off without the trigger being manipulated.
However, with two guilty pleas, it seems that was all a bunch of nonsense.
Two airmen at a Wyoming U.S. Air Force base have pleaded guilty to making false statements about the deadly shooting of a third that prompted the suspension of Sig Sauer M18 pistol use at nuclear weapons sites for a month, the Air Force said in a statement Friday.
The gun pause by the Air Force Global Strike Command after the death of Brayden Lovan, 21, in late July was lifted in late August after Air Force officials determined the M18 was safe to carry.
Lovan was an airman with the 90th Security Forces Squadron, 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base outside Cheyenne.
Details about his death were released for the first time Friday, including that the alleged shooter, Marcus White-Allen, had pointed the gun at Lovan’s chest in a “joking manner.” White-Allen after the shooting allegedly urged the other two surviving airmen to lie about what happened, according to the statement.
White-Allen, who was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter and making a false statement, was found dead on base on the morning of Oct. 8. Air Force officials have not disclosed details surrounding White-Allen’s death, saying it was still under investigation.
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In other words, this was a dipstick being stupid, killing someone with a negligent discharge, then using the controversy surrounding the P320 to try and cover up his fatal stupidity and negligence.
Sig had absolutely nothing to do with this one, at least not directly. The case could be made that their failure to address the problems sooner might have contributed to the cover-up, but that’s irrelevant. The incident itself was not the fault of their gun in any way. After all, no one has figured out how to make a gun moron proof.
And I’m particularly angered by this because it seems clear there are issues with the gun, but it’s kind of hard to have a discussion when stupid people do stupid things and muddy the waters by trying to cover themselves by claiming the problems led to the death of an innocent man.
It didn’t, and part of me wants Sig to sue the crap out of these two. I have no idea if they can, and I’m not sure they even would if they could, but it would certainly be something I’d applaud.
These two will be going to Fort Leavenworth for a while, at least I hope that’s where they end up, and I pray they have a good, long time to think about their actions. They were supposed to protect and serve Air Force personnel, just as a police officer would, and when one of theirs killed another in what was supposedly an unintentional shooting, they had a duty to report what happened.
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They didn’t.
There’s no excusing that.
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