I found one on the ground last week on Fallen Fighters and played around a bit before I got killed.
It was a select fire weapon IRL, (safe/semi/auto) it doesn't seem to be in the game. If this were fixed, (or if I knew how to select it) it would be an excellent weapon. Semi for outdoors, auto for hallways.
It should have slightly less recoil than the SVT40 in semi, because it has a hardwood stock instead of birch. (The birch SVT stocks cracked rapidly under the strain of 7.62x54r @ 900rpm) I only ever fired one once, and it was extremely difficult to handle on Auto. Imagine an M14 that weighs 8.5lb instead of 11.5lb.