Ok so these p.o.s. weapons the Japs carried during the war managed to be far superior to anything the Chinese could bring to battle and they managed to over power any resistance that used superior weapons during their "beach assaults" throughout the S. Pacific when they started the war...so I wonder what killed so many U.S. personnel...they didn't have heavy armor, close air support tactics weren't well developed...yet somehow the Japanese infantry managed to kill a lot of people with those crappy little guns.
Next thing someone will try to tell us is the Kar98 had an effective range of only 100 yards and couldn't penetrate an aluminum can at 300 yards... 
You need to read a few books before commenting on the Chinese ability to fight the Japanese on equal ground. China in 1937 was still a deeply divided country, and the KMT government could not rely on all its nominal forces equally. Rebellions and other disloyalties by various regional military commanders throughout the 1930s had made Chiang Kai-shek very suspicious of a large part of his forces. The most loyal and therefore best-trained and equipped troops were aproximately 380,000 men of Chiang Kai-shek's own pre-1934 army, most of whom had been trained by German instructors. They were commanded by graduates of the Whampoa Military Academy in Canton, which Chiang had himself commanded in 1924, creating an educated and politically reliable officer corps for the KMT army.
Another 520,000-odd men belonged to formations that were traditionally loyal to Chiang, though not of his own creation. Together with this hard core, these gave him a strength of 900,000 men that the government could rely upon. Beyond these armies there existed another class of so-called 'semi-autonomous provincial troops' that could sometimes be mobilized in the KMT government's interest, totalling perhaps another 300,000 men divided between the provinces of Suiyuan, Shansi and Shangtung in the north, and Kwangtung in the south-east.
The rest of the Nationalist army was made up of troops led by commanders who, while having no real loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek, were willing to fight alongside him against the common enemy, Japan. The fighting quality of these troops of questionable loyalty varied from very good to extremely poor. For instance, the 80,000 soldiers and 90,000 militia of the far southern province of Kwangsi were well-led, equipped and disciplined, while the 250,000 soldiers of Szechuan in the south-west were described as the worst-trained and equipped, most undisciplined and disloyal of all Chinese Nationalist troops.
Eroded by casualties - particularly among the trained pre-1937 officer corps - and by poverty of resources, most of these formations were under strength, badly fed, badly cared for, badly clothed and equipped, and badly led, with a combat value comparable to that of the marauding peasants levies of an earlier century. Historically, China's brutal military culture had given the peasant soldier no reward for victory beyond the opportunity to pillage, and no real emotional stake in any cause beyond his own immediate unit. Caution and cunning were admired, self-respect did not depend upon initiative and dash in the attack or endurance in defence. Unless succes came quickly they tended to fall back; on the other hand, even after a headlong retreat in the face of the enemy the long-suffering peasant soldiers could sometimes be brought back to their duty after a short respite.
There is more to defending against a beach landing then small arms fire. Have you considered artillery, mortars. It was said that during the Normandy landings that the majority of deaths along the beach were done by these 2 .
rofl all you want, your teachers must have. As stated, facts are facts and people who have way more knowledge about Japanese small arms then both of us consider the Japanese small arms to be substandard.
