User blog comment:JoeRamirez/Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Weapons Wishlist./@comment-2192318-20110406212946/@comment-1889554-20110407010139

MW3 would be in the future, so its possible that they re-instigated the XM8 and fixed its design flaws.

They did it in Battlefield, and those are a bit more fanatic about realism than CoD.