Watch World Record holder Jerry Miculek, reload, and fire. More at Revolvers
It's not practical to try to rush someone reloading using a revolver. It takes less than a second to reload a revolver, and most shooters just move to a secure/obstructed location before reloading and moving on. Remember, 23 mass murders have been done with revolvers, none were disarmed while reloading.
The idea of "clips" goes back to the 1800's and something called moon clips: that holds a bunch of bullets together, so you can drop them into a revolver at once. It is not much more complex to flip open the cylinder, eject, and drop in a new set of bullets, then it is to drop a magazine and drop in a new magazine. And again, mass shooters usually have more than one gun, so if someone tries to charge them, they just pull and use the other gun.
A thug with a revolver is as dangerous as one with a semi-auto. Most mass shooters don’t even need to reload w/10 rounds (which some revolvers hold). And a mass shooter with 4 revolvers can still kill 47 people and save the last bullet for himself. Which is a higher kill rate than all but one of our top mass shootings have managed (and those shootings lasted over an hour). The higher reliability of revolvers can actually increase gun fatalities. Revolvers are cheaper than semi-autos (due to their simplicity), so at least you lowered the price for the bad guys.
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A "Chicago reload" is to just carry more than one gun: so you don't reload at all, you just pull out your backup gun and keep firing. Some cowboys wore two holsters. 10-12 round revolved means you can shoot 24 people with two guns... 36 with three... and so on.
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Gun Bans Gun bans of one model/kind of gun can't work. And gun bans of all kinds has never worked.
Reload Times There's a fallacy amongst the ignorant that limiting magazines to 10 rounds will help against mass shooters. If only.
Removable Magazines Magazine limits can't help, mass shooters haven't been disarmed reloading, because reloading magazines is too quick.
Fixed Magazines There's virtually no difference in reloading removable or fixed magazines, outlawing the former is just an annoyance.
Revolvers There's almost no difference in reloading removable or rotary magazines, magazine limits only annoy the law abiding.
Pump Action Pump actions are fast, easy, and easy to make.
Lever Action Lever actions are as fast (rate of fire) as a semi-automatic, but more compact/reliable, with just a little skill.
Bolt Action Bolt Actions can dump 38 shots per minute, hitting a target at 300 yards. Explain how slowing shot placement is a net win.
Break Action You can reload a break action gun faster than someone can charge. Let alone if you had a spare gun.
Air Rifle While others had flintlocks, the Austrian Arm was using 22 shot .46 caliber repeater, you could hunt bear/elk with.
