I carried a SIG P226 in 9mm for just over a decade with one of my LE employers. It went everywhere I did during duty- in the cruiser, outta the cruiser, foot chases, fights, falls on icy surfaces during the winter, even used it a couple of times as an impact weapon (that's another story) and never had a problem with it during quals using the ammo that sat in the magazines prior to blowing it off. In short- it's not an issue.
I suspect that the "issue" was simply the author's use of "literary license" perhaps to make the story interesting...
