User blog comment:Flamesword300/BLACK OPS 2- REVIEW AND PROBLEMS. IW VS 3ARC/@comment-1382861-20121121012819/@comment-5596583-20121121031151

Not exactly a balancing issue. It keeps people from using rapid fire on a submachine gun to get a 3-hit kill at medium range within a fifth of a second (assuming about a 1,000 RPM rate of fire with rapid fire), at any rate. Besides, submachine guns are over-ranged (from what I can tell, as I mentioned before, I haven't played anything but hardcore) to begin with. That would really make them overpowered. Not a real balancing issue. As far as LMGs go, I have neither used nor seen them used more than just a little, so can't say anything on that subject.