This question was answered in the early 1900's during the US military tests. The old guard military officers had a faithful devotion to the revolvers and a fear of technology. The early crude models of semi-automatics put the highly developed revolvers to shame and then eclipsed them as a military weapon.
Since that time there has been very little advancement in the technology of the revolver and quite a bit of advancement in the engineering of the semi-auto pistol.
It's an old question with old answers.
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