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As stated earlier in this thread, government agencies did have revolvers with silencers on them. If you would like to find one of them and put a video of how loud they are on youtube, that would be great.
In the meantime, suppressor sales are to military units (that haven't used revolvers in a century) and the tacticalrific civilians who emulate them. The revolver crowd doesn't seem like they feel the need for suppressors, weapon lights, camouflage paint or flash hiders. So you're going to have a hard time finding a revolver guy who is going to mess up one of his guns to do something which every internet/gunshop/video gamer believes isn't going to work.
I am certainly not saying that the cylinder gap isn't a factor, but no one has ever stated with any authority how much additional noise a cylinder gap produces.
We know that revolvers have been suppressed in the past, so it couldn't have been that much worse than a high pressure .38 Super or 9mm, or a large bore .45. And cylinder gaps account for less than 50 fps of lost energy, and that energy is what makes the noise.
I just think it is ridiculous to keep repeating something that is entirely unproven, especially when it used to be done.
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