Is there an advantage to carrying a revolver over a semi?

[highlander 5]

which is better...?

inre browningguy post don't know about the millitary but LEOs in my neck of the woods it was "well the Bad Guys/Gang Bangers got em we gotta have em.
Unfortunatly I see numerous stories of Leos launching 15 + rounds in the direction of BG and lo and behold no hits. I often wonder if the scenerio would be different with a revolver.
personally I carry a semi but I'm not a big guy phyiscally,but I do own and have carried a revolver S&W N frame 45 colt to be exact and it depends on which you can shoot better.
What good is a revolver/semi auto if you can't hit the broad side of a barn?

 

[Whirlwind06]

Unfortunately I see numerous stories of Leos launching 15 + rounds in the direction of BG and lo and behold no hits. I often wonder if the scenario would be different with a revolver.
personally I carry a semi but I'm not a big guy physically, but I do own and have carried a revolver S&W N frame 45 colt to be exact and it depends on which you can shoot better.
What good is a revolver/semi auto if you can't hit the broad side of a barn?

I think a lot of that, is not what the LEO is carrying. Be it revolver or semi-auto. But the fact that a good number of LEO's only fire their service weapon once or twice a year.

 

[.38 Special]

Unfortunatly I see numerous stories of Leos launching 15 + rounds in the direction of BG and lo and behold no hits. I often wonder if the scenerio would be different with a revolver.

Yeah. There'd be fewer holes in the scenery.

Remember the North Hollywood shoot-out? I happened to be standing in a Los Angeles gun store with a bunch of cops at the time, and the owner had a little B&W TV set up on the counter. Everyone was blasting at everything and man, the amount of perforation going on! One image of a comically ventilated U.S. mail box will always stick with me. Anyway, the point is that the cops were all telling each other how badly they needed machine guns with which to return fire. I held my tongue, but what I was thinking was that the last thing that scene needed was more lead in the air. Seemed to me that a good man with a scoped rifle would have been the most useful fellow around.

I won't pretend to tell cops how to do their jobs, but I will admit to thinking the obsession with round count is a little misplaced.

 

[miko]

Military uses ball ammo - that nobody else, including LE would consider using.

LE are not carrying for self-defence, but for going after bad guys - who might be armed and numerous. If I was expecting that kind of trouble, I would be carrying a longarm, not just a pistol, however nice.

miko

 

[ronto]

One of many reasons to carry a revolver

You can fire a spurless revolver multiple times from INSIDE your coat pocket. You look just like a person walking with their hands in their pockets through a dark parking lot... but you have a pocket full of dynamite!

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[aaronrkelly]

I have always been a semi-auto guy.....why would I want to carry those old-time wheel guns?

I recently did an experiment trying to justify all my guns and fancy leather. I actually carried all my "carry-able" guns for atleast 3 or 4 days....just getting a feel for different guns.

I was REALLY suprised when I got to my 3" Taurus .357 reolver.

One thing I noticed right away.......almost every part of a revolver is round or radiused in some way. The gun disappeared on my belt - there was no way anybody could guess I had a gun.

Second thing I noticed is the balance of the gun. In my automatics the ammunition and magazine are so heavy the gun is "butt-heavy". That isnt the case with the reolver.....the balance of the revolver made it really nice for daily carry.....I was really impressed.

I would also say in most instances a revolver is inheritently more reliable. There is no feeding and ejection mechanism, therefore no change of feeding or ejection problems......these are the most common problems facing semi-auto handguns.

 

[LightningJoe]

A snub-nose is probably better for pocket carry than a small 9mm because it prints less or its print is less recognizable. It is larger and more serious-looking than a very small automatic, such as a Kel-Tec P-32, which could be a factor since the handgun operates largely on reputation.