User blog comment:Drkdragonz66/Modern Warfare 3 interview: Robert Bowling talks about Spec Ops Survival/@comment-76.239.16.132-20110814144012/@comment-1518024-20110814144432

This was actually present in MW2. Any one reloading would have a gun without a magazine inserted for a bit before the magazine reappeared. Strangely this wasn't featured in BO, but if the engine is the same one in MW3 as MW2, the third person reload should remain the same.