Why do we still use revolvers today if pistols can hold more ammo and shoot faster?
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Objectively speaking, while revolvers do have a few advantages over semiauto pistols, they’re not enough to outweigh the advantages semiauto pistols have over revolvers. There’s a reason no modern military and few, if any, modern police forces still use revolvers. They’re heavy, bulky, slow-firing, and have poor capacity. Reliability is often cited as an advantage to revolvers, but modern semiautos are reliable enough that it basically doesn’t matter.
The only people who really still use revolvers are civilians. There, the advantages of a revolver matter more and the disadvantages matter less. And sometimes, people just shoot for fun, and in that case it doesn’t matter that the revolver only holds 6 rounds of ammo vs the 15+ most modern semiautos can carry, because you’re just shooting a target, not participating in a firefight.
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