“I’ve never seen any study that proves there is any difference in the reliability of revolvers vs pistols. Most alleged experts claim there is none.”
90% of my shooting has been with revolvers. With 60+ years of experience I can say revolvers are more reliable.
I used to teach skeet at The University of Southern Mississippi. The skeet range was located at a beautiful setting near a lake on the old Police Training Range.
They had a new range located elsewhere but the old one was still heavily used. Between classes I would sometimes watch them train. There were bleachers just for that.
When I first started out, the Hattiesburg PD was using what appeared to be model 13 revolvers tho I could be wrong about that.
They apparently had a rule that anytime one of them had a misfire or malfunction, he had to take it to the range master. He would clear it before any more shooting.
After a while I noticed there were a lot of malfunctions. Most of them appeared to be empties caught under the extractor star.
During this time, they switched to Glock model 17s. The number of stoppages just about stopped.