It depends entirely upon the purpose of a revolver. They often have better inherent mechanical reliability (stoppages are nearly impossible unless the weapon catastrophically fails) and can be easily built to accept any reasonable (and more than a few completely insane) ammunition. Reliability and durability are key selling points of the revolver but it comes with drawbacks. Normally, a double action revolver has an inordinatly heavy trigger pull which makes accurate shooting when stressed incredibly difficult. While the exact carrying capacity of a revolver varies greatly, it can generally be assumed it will carry fewer rounds than an automatic. They also tend to be incredibly heavy in comparison as each chamber that holds a round must be built to withstand the stresses applied by the firing of said round.SnowdensOfYesteryear said:
Still, revolvers of all forms are still in use around the world, generally in the hands of police departments and citizens. Reliabilty and durability are important factors, but often magazine capacity and ease of use under stress force one to choose an automatic.
It should be noted that this is the precise reason one does not see the Desert Eagle in common use around the world. The sheer size of the weapon makes it difficult to handle in the best of circumstances and proper timing required to move more than a half-inch of brass out of the weapon between shots makes it unsually prone to stoppage. Worse still, the .50 AE is a novelty round at best and is not in use in any standard issue NATO or even UN weapon. This may not sound like a big deal, but this was a key reason the United States switched from the M1911A1 to the M9 - no other nation fielded a weapon that used the .45 ACP round as a standard issue. Worse still, if one is simply looking for stopping power at any price, there are a number of more reliable and significantly more powerful options available. The round itself is not particuarly adept at bypassing body armor in spite of possessing more than double the KE of a common .45 ACP fired from a comon weapon. In the event the target is not wearing body armor, the .45 ACP is already legendary in it's capacity to stop a man in his tracks and even smaller rounds do the job shockingly well (.40 S&W for example).
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