Hey Lemon, I do like the MP40 also, but I dislike tow things with the current MP40: a) the recoil, b) the reloading animation when the gun is empty loaded.
The recoil is ridiculous, too many videos on the web tell different stories on it.
The same is the thing with the safety notch. Why the hell is this guy doing this?!? Honestly when I reload the PPSh I don't switch to safe, neither I do with the Kar98k or any other weapon in the game. Why then the MP40?
The MP40 is an blow back operated weapon.
When you fire the gun the charging handle is moving forward and backwards, like animated currently. So thumbs up here.
As the last bullet left the weapon, you'll hear a "click", the firing pin hit nothing, meanwhile the breech block is also yet in forward position.
Now all you got to do is to insert a new magazine and pull back the charging handle to the very rear end, then you release it and it will snap in place. The MP40 is ready to fire again. You don't need the safety notch, useless and time stealing animation.
If you want to see this kind of animation in action go for the videos linked in the first posting of this thread.