SIG Sauer appears to be nine days from its next major pistol introduction, with a Sportsman's Warehouse retailer planning board listing "Sig P385 LAUNCH 9/24" and a ten-day countdown posted to YouTube by the channel FocusTripp on September 14. The planning board photograph emerged on Reddit's r/SigSauer on September 15, and while SIG has not officially confirmed the date, the company's own support documentation had already named the P385 by name weeks earlier.

The most concrete official acknowledgment comes from SIG's prelaunch FAQ for its SIG-LOC PRO optic interface, which named the P385 directly alongside the P211 as a pistol designed to host the system. The SIG-LOC PRO mounts red-dot optics from underneath the slide rather than from a traditional top-side footprint, and its inclusion on the P385 signals that SIG is extending the under-slide optic standard it has been developing across a new duty-format platform. For the company to name a pistol model — unprompted — inside published product documentation is the clearest signal yet that the P385 is a real and near-term product.

Community reporting aggregated by Rifle Configurator describes the P385 as a duty-size pistol built on architecture derived from the P365's modular frame approach, scaled up to approximately P320 dimensions and expected to accept P320 magazines. If that architecture holds, the P385 would give SIG a full-duty-frame pistol using the grip-module approach that made the P365 family adaptable across a range of carry and duty configurations — a significant departure from the P320's serialized fire control group architecture that has underpinned most of SIG's law enforcement business since winning the Army's MHS contract in 2017. Those architectural details are based on community and pre-production source reporting and have not been officially confirmed.

The P385's reported primary target market is law enforcement. SIG's P320 has built a strong installed base in that segment, and a next-generation duty pistol that retains P320 magazine compatibility while offering a modernized frame architecture would give agencies a straightforward migration path. Consumer availability timeline has not been addressed in any official communication.

The first substantial public discussion of the P385 followed a March 2026 Focus Clipps video that described the pistol as a successor to the P320 built around P365-style internals. The SIG-LOC PRO FAQ naming that followed is what moved it from community speculation to confirmed product existence.

What to watch: SIG Sauer's official announcement is expected on or around September 24 if the leaked retailer planning date holds. Law enforcement briefings are likely to precede any consumer availability announcement. P320 magazine compatibility and pricing are the two details that duty and carry shooters will be waiting for once SIG makes the introduction official.