@D-Man3847 It’s on purpose. Right or wrong it’s performing as intended. IMO if you chose to equip it, then it’s obvious that you want to use it and it should just be deployed. Having it hanging doesn’t seem to affect hip fire or anything else, so why not just leave it down?
Also, it’s really very very rare anymore to see an EA dev in here. I’ve been around a bit and at the start we did see a couple of different ones who would chat with us. Thing is… the game was in a pretty bad state and players were super annoyed and those devs took a lot of caca when they were in. A lot of rage got focussed on those guys, without anyone even knowing what their roles on the game had been. It didn’t take long before we never saw them anymore. Sure they might have quit or been cut loose and Dice or EA shed staff, or maybe they stopped because we were jerks. We’ll probably never know.