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“Drop safe,” Cohen explained, “Those two words don’t exist together. No gun is drop safe. It’s a function of angle, height and surface. If you build it completely drop safe, you legitimize mishandling. Inherently guns are not meant to be dropped, and are unsafe when dropped.”
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Mr. Cohen is correct. There is probably no gun that is 100 percent drop-safe. For many years, it was almost universally accepted that a 1911 could not fire if dropped on its muzzle. There is still a description of tests purporting to "prove" this floating around the Internet. But then a few years ago two gentlemen named Walt Kuleck and Drake Oldham ran their own tests, and they found that 1911s (with no firing pin block) WILL fire when dropped on the muzzle -- and not necessarily from all that great a height. And they have posted videos of their testing.
So for anyone to state flat-out that any particular gun "can't" fire when dropped is, IMHO, rather foolish. One might argue that if SIG knew this was an issue early enough to have changed the trigger design on the military M17, they should have made the change on the commercial pistol as well. On the other hand, look how long it took Remington to even acknowledge the issue with their infamous trigger problem. SIG's response time is light years ahead of Remington's.