Precision manufacture, excellent accuracy and top-flight reliability characterize the P220, which features a smooth double-action trigger press and excellent the trigger leverage. The ancestor of the P229, and the cornerstone of the SIG P series, is the SIG P220. Many American law enforcement officers, including the Secret Service and Federal Air Marshals, use the P229. As peace officers using the SIG may rightly state, “When the brass chooses the SIG for the rank and file, you know they have not purchased the low bid.” The Trigger However, the short and heavy slide of the P229 has no counterpart in a full-size pistol. The P229, in some ways, builds on the compact P228 9mm.

The SIG Sauer P229 is widely recognized by SIG pistol fans as one of the best designed and proportioned of the SIG P series pistols.