One of the more humorous episodes of “Tales of the Gun”. Almost ever one of them was either poorly designed, poorly made or both. The Type 99 long rifle and Type 99 light machine gun (also in .303) were the only good ones. The Type 99 short (last ditch) was a POS, the SMG was a joke, and their pistols were more dangerous to the user than the target.
If Tales of the Gun did an episode of Italian guns it would compete with the Japs as the most poorly equipped small arms army of WW II. Back then Japanese made = CRAP.