You don’t see it too often, but a movie or TV program showing a silencer on a revolver used to drive my Dad through the roof.
Saw that in a bad gang movie. Even better was the character using the revolver complaining that he didn’t realize that he was out of ammo because of the silencer.
The film Red2 is the most recent example of the ol’ silencer on a revolver gag.
Love The Walking Dead, but when Hershel Greene defends his farm from hoards of invading zombies on the ‘alamo’ night, he breaks out his trusty Hollywood twelve gauge - the one that never needs reloading.
Despite the fact that he’s forbidden everyone else from possessing guns on the ranch.
And at the traffic stop in the initial installment - the one in which Rick is wounded - Rick tells his deputy to be sure he has ‘a round in the chamber and the safety off.’
The pistol is a Glock, and has no external safety.
TWD characters are constantly racking their slides for dramatic effect in situations in which they already have a round in the chamber.
And, of course, when they raid The Governor’s little town to get back Glenn and Maggie, several of the cast members use weapons on full auto - and keep firing away without ever running dry.
Then, again, when the prison falls to a resurgent Governor, now named Brian, there is constant fire, both on full automatic and single fire, with cast members not even bothering to take cover and lead flying like summer rain, and yet, for the longest time, nobody even suffers a scratch.
Many are familiar with the island drama Lost. Those who observe closely will notice Sawyer negotiating with an Australian for a revolver that quite obviously switches from a Smith & Wesson to a Colt and back again.
Several handguns are recovered from the Marshall taking Kate back to the US for trial, and all of them 9mm caliber, but when when the young musician, Charlie Pace, from Drive Shaft, guns down Ethan at the confrontation in the interior forest, he’s clearly using a Walther PPK-PPK/S.
Oh, well - movies is movies.
They actually made silencers for Moisin-Nagant revolvers, the round has a recessed slug and the entire cylinder moves forward to meet the back end of the barrel, sealing cylinder face to barrel breech, no gap allowing noise or gases to escape.
Silencer on a revolver? How about an Angola silencer? A cheap homemade silencer on the barrel of a .22 revolver which was made of a plastic coke bottle filled with foam rubber. The hit made on Vincent Sherry and his wife used such a contraption.
You can silence a revolver, you just have to be a really good gunsmith to do it. It will work until the gun gets hot and grows, which the cylinder won't turn, but a really tight fit seals the gasses enough to do it. I had a buddy that told me for a single shot a piece of brass shim stock wedged in after the hammer was pulled back could cut the escaping gasses by 90+%, screw and oil filter on the end of it and you had a pretty quiet gun then.