Friday vagaries
You may have been following the news about the Sig P320, which has been pulled for use from a couple of ‘major’ customers (Chicago PD and LAPD, the two largest in the country.) The base issue is that there have been incidents in which the gun goes off when holstered. As in just sitting in a holster on a table.* Many say it’s simply human error – “Get yer booger hook off the bang switch!” – but Sig did a voluntary recall and rework on ’em in 2017 which was supposed to stop it happening – and it hasn’t. Now the Air Force Global Strike Command has officially paused the use of the military’s P320 derived M17 and M18 pistols due to the death off an airmen due to accidental discharge.
The active-duty Security Forces airman, assigned to the base’s 90th Security Forces Squadron, “died on base while on duty” in the early morning hours Sunday, a news release from the base said. While the identity of the service member has not yet been made public, nor has the circumstances of their death, Air Force Global Strike Command, or AFGSC, issued an immediate order pausing the use of 9mm Sig Sauer M18 handguns as a result of the incident.
“Air Force Global Strike Command has paused use of the M18 Modular Handgun System, effective July 21, 2025, until further notice,” Charles Hoffman, an AFGSC spokesperson, told Military.com. “This decision was made following a tragic incident at F.E. Warren AFB, WY, on July 20, 2025, which resulted in the death of a Security Forces airman.” Military.com
Sig is known for their customer service, or lack of which, which reputedly competes with Glock for last place. “You haff a problem? Are you too f***** stupid to operate the weapon correctly?” is their perception among many…I am thinking with major military and police contracts potentially in the wind, they will be trying to get to the bottom of this. Too many knowledgeable, unbiased people are saying “you know, I saw one go off with no one touching it” for them to be complacent.
* sorry, some source material was a bit ambiguous. Mea culpa.
Who is the chief law enforcement officer in any state? Well, in most states, it’s supposed to be the Attorney General. Now, as we have seen, that doesn’t mean they are above the law (look at New York’s Letitia James as an example of that.) But for shear chtuzpah, it’s hard to beat Texas’ Ken Paxton.
The man has to pay four assistants $6.6 million for whistleblower retaliation. Fox7 In 2023 he became the first statewide official to be impeached in over 100 years:
On Sept. 5, Paxton faces the Texas Senate for a trial that delves into accusations of various misdeeds that include bribery, abuse of office and obstruction of justice. The tribunal is the result of the Texas House voting 121-23 to impeach Paxton. Politifact
The Texas House is not the world’s bluest, shall we say. 121-23 ? Currently there are 88 Republicans and 62 Democrats… and 121 voted for impeachment. Hmmm.
That was more or less just as background – his latest is even better. Remember I mentioned Letitia James above, the one who tried taking on both Donald Trump and the NRA, pretty much simultaneously – and not only got her head handed to her BOTH times, but now is in her own trouble over mortgage fraud charges. Now Ken, although an ardent Trump fan, seems to (if imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery) really admire her… or is at least pulling the same nonsense she did.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million house in a gated community outside Dallas. In 2015, they snapped up a second home in Austin. Then another.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records. The lower rates will save the Paxtons tens of thousands of dollars in payments over the life of the loan, legal experts say.
The records also revealed that the Paxtons routinely flouted lending agreements on some of their other properties.
Things like signing stipulations that their houses were forbidden to be rental properties – and then they rented them out, sometimes for years.
Texas is pretty serious about homestead exemptions. Once. Multiple homesteads? That’s tax fraud, and they’re pretty serious about that, too.
Oh, and Paxton is running to replace long-time Senator John Cornyn. Bet I know which way I am gonna vote.
Category: 2026 Elections, Crime
