@AC97  
True as far as it goes, but it was not so long ago that if you wanted a defensive sidearm that wasn’t a revolver, your choices were:
 
1911A1  
assorted war surplus handguns in uncertain and frequently poor condition, usually in oddball metric calibers you couldn’t get at the local gun shop
 
Given the fact that prior to around 1990 expanding bullet designs in most handgun calibers were more hype than reality anyway-the .357 Magnum had an impressive reputation from the mid-70s on as a “manstopper,” mainly because in an era of handgun bullet jackets made of the same heavy gauge copper-washed mild steel that was used for rifle bullets, it was just about the only one in widespread circulation that could push a “hollowpoint” bullet fast enough to tear open the steel jacket and actually deform in soft tissue. Bullet designs with lots of exposed soft lead in front helped, but in semiauto handguns of the time would have gotten stuck at the bottom of the feed ramp every second or third shot. Then, too, semiauto handguns until very recently tended to have short, steep feed ramps designed around smooth functioning with full metal jacket round nose milspec ammunition, which was pretty much the only kind in existence before around 1980. Anyway, not long ago, it could be argued that, all taken with all, you could get eight or nine shots in a semiauto handgun, sometimes more with exotic European designs like the Browning P-35 and the French MAB PA15, but good luck with that if you were practicing one afternoon and broke a firing pin or an extractor and needed spare parts–and maybe that, plus faster reloads, would be a reasonable tradeoff, given that there really wasn’t much to distinguish performance between 9mm and .38 Special, or between .45 ACP and .44 Special or .45 Colt using the ammunition technology of the era.
 
There were people like Elmer Keith shooting very hot handloads in .38 and .44 revolvers and killing big animals like moose and bears with them, but they didn’t have much following outside the outdoor-magazine reading public, and Elmer Keith blew up a number of guns doing his experiments and was lucky to not to lose any fingers or eyes. He also designed flat-nosed cast lead bullets that some people still feel work better on medium to large game than the round-nosed or conical designs that were all that existed previously, but maybe not so much for antipersonnel work.
 
It wasn’t so long ago. -Pepperidge Farm remembers I can remember a time before double-stack magazines and feedramps designed for more than just FMJ were the norm.

@Background Pony #EF1A
 
Any semiautomatic pistol worth a damn can feed a variety of hollow-points.
 
But yes, revolvers don’t have feeding issues, but when they fail…

@Autumn_Shy  
I suppose there’s no real reason for her not to, especially in a revolver–no feedway stoppages.

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rood

OH NOOOOOOOO

Gooooooooooooodbye…. moonmen…