User blog comment:Rampantlion513/BattleNews June 14, 2012/@comment-4951752-20120615100708/@comment-1990578-20120618192207

Currently, the Raffica is very OP. It does have high recoil, but it does 25 damage out to 12 meters, 4 meters more than every assault rifle, carbine, and LMG in 5.56mm or 5.45mm, which is clearly a problem. The recoil can alos be helped by spacing out the bursts and by hip firing at close to medium range as it still is pretty effective.

I can understand why they are lowering the damage as it currently is too high and should be a 5-shot in CQC. I was just hoping it'd be longer till that happened, lol. I love the thing too much, as it's been my default sidearm pretty much since I unlocked it.