User blog comment:Comrade Hamburger/My Opinion on how Black Ops 3 is NOT Pay to Win./@comment-4872910-20160323002204

The new guns are nowhere near OP. The Marshall is a one-shot KRM with double the pellets. The MX Garand is hit-or-miss. Better damage than the Sheiva and smaller downside from the suppressor, but smaller mag and lack of a mid-mag reload.

According to someone on the DK forums, the HG40 is very low rate of fire but with AR damage. Fairly short 3 hit kill range, but with a long 4 hit kill range (similar to Ghosts' MTAR-X). This isn't really anything like the MP40 on consoles (very much like it was on PC however, as that was the only platform it became nerfed on).

Consle MP40 was a 2 to 4 hit kill, could get a one hit kill headshot and a three hit kill across the largest of maps when equipped with Stopping Power. It had the power of the semi-auto rifles, regardless of whether or not you had stopping power. I'm unaware of why it wasn't nerfed on consoles. Maybe they just weren't given the proper development time to do it or they had more pressing issues in the game than gun balance.