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NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) – Sig Sauer, the firearms \u2060manufacturer, \u2060must face a product liability lawsuit \u2060by an upstate New York police officer who was injured when his semi-automatic pistol \u200binadvertently fired during a training exercise, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in \u200cManhattan revived claims by Michael Colwell, \u200ca Troy Police Department detective who said he suffered a leg injury when his department-issued P320 discharged in June \u20602021 despite being \u2060holstered. He said he never touched the trigger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Writing for a 2-1 majority, Circuit \u200bJudge Gerard Lynch said\u00a0a reasonable jury could find it more likely than not that the accident would not have happened had Colwell’s pistol been equipped with an external safety known as a tabbed trigger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said jurors could use common sense to decide whether \u200bany “foreign object” likely caused Colwell’s P320 to go off, and would not have done so if the \u2060trigger\u00a0were tabbed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sig \u2060Sauer and its lawyers did \u2060not immediately respond \u200bto requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Many law enforcement agencies and the U.S. military use the P320, and Sig Sauer sells \u200ba version for civilians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Newington, \u2060New Hampshire-based company has long defended the safety of the P320, and its website says the pistol\u00a0“cannot under any circumstance discharge without a trigger pull.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The company has nonetheless faced dozens of lawsuits alleging that the P320’s defective design leaves the pistol susceptible to firing unintentionally.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Robert Zimmerman, a lawyer for Colwell and his wife, said they looked forward to a jury \u2060trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We\u2019re aware of over 500 unintended discharges of this product, which is a staggering and unacceptable \u2060number,” Zimmerman added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DISSENTING JUDGE SAYS JURORS WERE LEFT TO GUESS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The appeals court revived Colwell’s case despite finding the trial judge properly excluded experts’ testimony about the P320’s alleged defective design, saying they didn’t explain how the absence of an external safety caused Colwell\u2019s injury specifically.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan dissented. He found no evidence suggesting what caused Colwell’s gun to fire, and said that question turned on complicated issues of physics, engineering and ergonomics that ordinary jurors wouldn’t understand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“The jury could do little more than guess,” Sullivan wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lynch said the federal appeals court in Denver ruled in Sig Sauer’s favor last June in \u2060a similar case lacking causation testimony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said that case differed from Colwell’s because the plaintiff didn’t identify what parts of his body or holster did or\u00a0did not contact the trigger of his P320.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lynch and Circuit Judge Pierre Leval, who formed Thursday’s majority, were appointed to the 2nd Circuit by Democratic Presidents \u200bBarack Obama and Bill Clinton, respectively. Sullivan was appointed by Republican President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by \u200bJonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Andrea Ricci )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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