PSA: Riot Shields are NOT GONE, they're bugged.

Post is same as title - PSA: Riot Shields are NOT GONE, they're bugged.

This goes without saying that they are only temporarily unavailable while they work on them to work with the omni-directional movement system, the files for the riot shield were recently updated in the files just prior to the season 1 update for Black Ops 6, you can still equip and use them in the firing range if you own a store bundle blueprint for the riot shield.

Further evidence dictates it's return is that the description for the riot shield was updated to match compatibility in Warzone would be updating it's description as well as showing visual weapon stats (the detailed numbers, not the bars.) whereas other MW2/3 weapons cannot.

One reason why you cannot see the riot shield in your weapon lists would be that they forgot to add a melee weapon category for the primary weapons available in the game.