In May 2019, Bagnell successfully concluded a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on behalf of one of his law enforcement clients, Marcie D. Vadnais, whose striker-fired weapon fired without a trigger pull into her leg in February 2018. Her severe injury occurred six months after Bagnell requested that Sig recall the weapon in August 2017.

Sig’s motions for summary judgment and expert disqualification were denied from the bench. The court found Vadnais’s experts, Charles “Chuck” Powell and Jon Priest, eminently qualified to testify. In moving trial testimony that resulted in a pause in proceedings, Vadnais described some of the harm the incident caused:

I have worked so hard to get where I am and to be who I am so that my kids are proud of me and look up to me, and this company destroyed that from me. I have — all I have tried to do is be a mom, have a career, be successful, and their carelessness took that away from me. 

And they don't care. They don't care. How many times is this going to happen?? 

Vadnais v. SIG Sauer, Inc., Trial Testimony, Day 1, (EDVA 2019).

To date, no mandatory recall has been issued, despite many law enforcement officers and civilians across the country asserting that it fired without a trigger pull. Bagnell emphasizes that these are not anti-gun cases and do not seek to undermine the rights recognized in the Second Amendment; rather, they are product liability and gun safety cases resulting from an alleged defective product.