What It Takes For Me To Boycott A Company

What it takes for me to boycott a company in just one word… Sig.

Between the P320’s un-commanded discharges, and Sig somehow getting all the small arms contracts for Uncle Sam, even proprietary cartridges, and those all having major issues, that’s enough.

I’m not one to hop on a bandwagon. I despise politics, but let’s be honest with ourselves, our banks, phones, computers, internet, food, cloths, vehicles, even most of our guns and ammo come from companies with lousy or worse than lousy corporate politics.

My three readers, (me, myself and I) all know I have a special fondness for Glock and the G34 Gen. 5. Glock’s corporate politics stink. I can admit that, sure. But, nobody that I’ve seen makes what I view to be a better pistol, both in terms of reliability and how it fits my hands. And before you try to say something about S&W and Ruger etc, they’ve had their issues too. S&W about a decade ago got caught by the ATF with guns “walking” out of their factory… https://waronguns.com/unequal-protection-3/ https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/smith-wesson-license-scandal/

But, strange isn’t it, how the only gun manufacturer being sued for un-commanded discharges and many videos and and sworn testimonies to support those claims is Sig.

Daniel Defense has been milquetoast in the past. Hornady makes the FBI’s ammo. Winchester/Olin operates Lake City. The list goes on and on.

But why Sig? Simple. Their products are injuring people, and perhaps worse… https://www.smbb.com/news-article/wrongful-death-lawsuit-filed-against-sig-sauer-as-concerns-mount-over-its-signature-handgun/ And Sig keeps lying to the public, paying shills on gun tube like GBRS and MAC and professional shooters to say how great they are and how their guns are safe and it’s user error. B.S.

I’ve never shot nor owned any kind of a Sig. They were never interesting to me. I did have a Winchester XPR 6.5 Creedmoor sometime back, key word “had”. It was a just a Tikka T3X clone, but with awful quality control, awful stock, a “sporter” barrel so heavy you’d think it was for a 300 Win Mag or bigger… Oh what a mess. I remember I’d bought two boxes, both different loads of Sig made 6.5 Creedmoor ammo, I don’t remember the specific load, I looked in my shooting note book, and found I didn’t write down the exact loads, but neither would not chamber, I tried every cartridge in both boxes, none would. It was too tight. I was smart enough not to force any of them. The rifle chambered and fired Federal, Winchester, and I think I had a box of Remington too, and they all well, functioned fine, accuracy was good, but, the heavy “sporter” barrel, lousy stock, sloppy bolt, and… Like I said, “had”.

I used to work in retail, was born into it actually. We had to deal with recalls, more and more, the older I got, and the more “commercialized” the industry got. I understand shit happens and manufacturers can put out bad batches of products. Sig however has done the totally wrong thing, instead of recalling their P320’s and fixing them, or issuing refunds, and redesigning or just ending production, things that would no doubt hurt financially but which they’re morally obligated to do, they just lobby the Republicans in their home state to make them immune to “most” lawsuits. https://www.wmtw.com/article/new-hampshire-gun-maker-sig-sauer-protection-lawmakers/65123752

Other companies have political issues, sure, even 2A companies. But I will never buy from Sig, they’re just plain evil.