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Gary and Jim, I agree.
It would be impossible for there to be a pressure spike, or build up of pressure inside the barrel, when the bullet passes the gap, as the gap will lose probably 1/4 of the charges pressure. Any jump over the bullet swagging into the rifling would be negligible. Of course, this is according to how big the gap is, and some have a pretty wide one, so they spit a good bit.
My guess is, that somebody tried to hold a revolver in some form of holder that trapped the gas from the gap inside it, and probably did move it apart, maybe a bit violently, but the gun would have remained a happy shooter. A blanket, though, maybe started a fire.
Some tales out there, too, may have been from fear of a revolver, or where somebody had their off-hand forward, and was bit by one. I saw this happen, and the guy actually had tattooed skin along his left index finger over it. The guy sold his revolver, saying it was dangerous. I asked him if he held a lit sparkler by it's burning end, too.
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