When Kara Kenney of WRTV Investigates showed up at the Indiana State Police shooting range in Pendleton, the timing felt symbolic, because the weather was in the single digits and the conversation was just as cold and serious: what happens when an agency rolls out a new duty gun that has been praised by some departments, attacked in court by others, and debated nationwide for years.
Kenney’s report centers on a simple, expensive fact that sits at the heart of it all—Indiana State Police bought 1,350 Sig Sauer P320 pistols and holsters for $1.17 million, and those purchases are now landing in a national argument about whether the P320 can fire when it shouldn’t.
Indiana State Police leaders told Kenney they didn’t choose the gun on a whim, and they clearly want the public to understand this wasn’t some impulse buy that happened after flipping through a catalog…