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Anecdote time!
I've been involved in shooting for 25+ years now. Have a lot of friends that shot over the years as well. In all that time, I've seen a revolver fail exactly once. A buddy of mine was shooting his Ruger GP-100 with some crap ammo, and could not get his cylinder to swing out. After I mucked with it for a bit, I got it open. I pulled the pawl out and found a sliver of brass sitting below the extractor, preventing it from going all the way forward and keeping his action from opening as it should. It was no fault of the gun whatsoever, and best classed an ammo failure.
25+ years, one revolver failure, and the sample group is every gun in my hand as well as the hands of every shooting buddy I've hit the range with, and many, many thousands of rounds of ammunition put downrange.
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